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Thoughts on IT delivery, technical leadership and platform integrations from practice.

20 July 2026

From Chatbot to Sparring Partner: My Experiment with a Personal AI Growth Agent

I am building a personal AI Growth Agent with voice reflection, long-term memory and MCP – testing whether AI can become a real sparring partner.

From technical implementation to responsibility: where I want to go

My professional development is clearly heading towards technical leadership and management responsibility. I want to move away from pure implementation and have more impact where technical dependencies, business requirements, teams, priorities and stable results come together.

From consumption data to invoice: automated billing for an international machine fleet

In an international platform project, consumption data from multiple data centres, diverse APIs and customer-specific machine assignments had to be unified into a reliable billing process. The result was an automated workflow from nightly data collection to invoice creation in Xero.

From implementation to ownership: my growth in the OTTO PDP team

I joined OTTO as a fullstack developer. Over time, however, I took on increasing responsibility for requirements, stakeholder alignment, sign-offs, iterations and delivery around the product detail page. One of my most important insights: technical project leadership works best when business, product, SEO, analytics and engineering genuinely collaborate as peers.

Building an international developer team from scratch: what really matters?

From job descriptions to the first sprint: how I built, onboarded and brought a seven-person international developer team into operations, including full budget responsibility.