About.
Designer who codes. Engineer who thinks about user experience. I bring logic and structure to complex design problems, hold high quality standards by instinct, and lead through empathy rather than authority.
When a framework does not exist, I build one. When a team needs alignment, I create it. Calm under pressure, deeply collaborative, and genuinely curious about technology, I make cross-functional work actually work.
Background
Fifteen years of design work taught me one thing above everything else: the best outcomes happen when you treat engineers as equals, not as a handoff at the end of the process. The last seven of those years I've spent owning end to end design for data intensive B2B SaaS analytics products, and that's where I learned to think in systems. When a framework doesn't exist, I build one, whether that means a design system built in genuine partnership with engineering or the information architecture that turns a complex workflow into something intuitive.
What sets me apart is that I speak both languages, design and code. I'm genuinely curious about technology, and I read engineering conversations with real interest rather than polite patience. That curiosity turned into practice: hands on prototyping, close technical collaboration, and a habit of getting into the code myself rather than handing off a spec and hoping. Design thinking and engineering logic have never felt like separate worlds to me; they're the same problem seen from two angles, and that's exactly where I want to keep working, at the intersection of scalable systems, code, and product strategy.
Right now that intersection is what excites me most. I'm drawn to AI assisted development and code based prototyping as a way to move faster from idea to working interface, and to shaping the agent first experiences and modern workflows that are defining the growing Design Engineer discipline. My commitment throughout has stayed the same: building the right thing, not just building things right, and increasingly, building it myself.
At a glance
Skills
- Product & UX/UI Design
- User-Centered Design
- Design Thinking
- Large-scale Design Systems
- Prototyping
- Interaction Design
- Service Design
- Qualitative & Quantitative Research
- Product Thinking
- Design Strategy & UX Vision
- Data-informed Design
- KBQs & JTBD Framework
- Agile & Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Discovery Workshops
- Global Stakeholder Management
- Design Reviews & Critiques
- Knowledge Sharing & Peer Learning
- Coaching & Mentoring
- HTML/CSS
- JavaScript (AI-assisted)
- Software Architecture (SOLID, SDD)
- AI Agent Orchestration
- Claude Code
- Visual Studio Code
- GitHub
- Code-Based Prototyping
- Figma
- Dovetail
- Amplitude
- Hotjar
- Miro
- Notion
- JIRA
- Confluence
- Adobe Creative Cloud
- Leading without direct authority
- Problem & Solution Focus
- Adaptability
- Reliability
- Curiosity
- Illustration
- Graphic Design
- Video Games
Experience
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Apr 2026 — Jul 2026
AI Software Engineering Bootcamp
DL School · remote
Intensive, project-based bootcamp bridging product engineering and applied AI. Designed, built, and shipped Sproutly, a live AI-native product (sproutly-green.de). Extending my design practice into hands-on coding, software architecture, and agentic AI systems.
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2018 — 2026
Senior Product UX Designer
GfK (now NIQ) · Nuremberg (on-site/remote/hybrid)
End-to-end product design and front-end prototyping for a B2B SaaS analytics platform serving data professionals across complex pricing, market share, and trade data. Leading cross-functional initiatives with engineering, product, data science, and Customer Success, bridging the gap between design intent and technical implementation.
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2015 — 2018
UI/UX Designer
.diff communications GmbH · Nuremberg (on-site)
End-to-end ownership of client projects across web, eCommerce, and digital product design. Designed and coded responsive websites and eCommerce frontends. Independent project management and client consulting alongside cross-functional delivery.
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2011 — 2015
Art Director
psbrands GmbH · Fürth (on-site)
Led client work across web, branding, graphic design, packaging, and print. Managed client relationships, led design pitches, and coordinated cross-functional delivery.