2010taught myself to code when I was 9, building websites and Minecraft server plugins.
2014 – 2020attended one of the world's oldest media & photography schools (est. 1888). graduated with a 1.1 GPA Matura.
2017started experimenting with AI: hyperGANs, Karpathy char-RNNs. pre-ChatGPT era.
2019 – 2020created interactive art installations using EEG brainwave data. exhibited at Ars Electronica.
2020 – 2022built a lab diagnostics platform processing 40M+ COVID PCR tests across 6,000 institutions. two-dev team, ~1M weekly users at peak.
2022 – 2023product dev & design for an AI-driven human genetic research database. travelled a lot.
2023 – 2025studied Molecular Biotechnology at TUM. dropped out — didn't want to spend 10 years in academia before building something.
2024 – 2025built a startup incubator program for the Young Founders Network (Germany's largest community of 1,700+ founders under 25).
2025 – 2026dropped out. built Lance, a B2B contact database & waterfall enrichment provider.
now
realized life is too short to work on something you don't have extreme passion for. ending my last company. talking to lots of people. planning my first SF trip. if you're building something ambitious related to biotech, robotics or ai — i'd love to talk!