Experience
Career Journey
I have spent 15 years in systems and backend engineering, the last five building institutional-grade digital-asset custody at Finoa, a regulated European custodian securing billions in assets.
I started in low-level systems — game-server reverse engineering, embedded Linux, and safety-critical automotive software in C++ — before moving into blockchain, where I now own multi-chain integration, signing pipelines, and key management.
Work Experience
Senior Software Engineer — Blockchain & Custody
Finoa GmbH
Own the blockchain integration domain ("currency services") at a regulated institutional custodian securing billions in digital assets, and set technical direction for it — authoring architecture documents, reviewing cross-team designs, running technical interviews, and mentoring engineers. Unified six divergent Cosmos codebases into a single generic service, cutting new-chain onboarding from weeks to about 20 minutes and enabling onboarding of blockchain foundations with €100M+ in custody per chain. Rewrote the Bitcoin service from C++ to Golang (full UTXO lifecycle, SegWit, PSBT, reorg detection) and built an Ethereum generic transaction-execution engine plus the ETH staking lifecycle across the pre- and post-Pectra upgrades. On-call incident response across all chains and the HSM signing pipeline.
Senior Software Engineer
Luxoft GmbH (VW Group)
Founded and led the Remote Production system — sole engineer for the initial phase, which grew into a full team — handling in-factory vehicle setup and configuration across production stages. Delivered key features for the DiagMaster vehicle diagnostic platform. Safety-critical, resource-constrained C++14.
Software Engineer
Altran GmbH
Ported an embedded Linux system from i.MX27 to i.MX6 and designed a new C++11/14 hardware abstraction layer. Maintained a conference system serving 1000+ connected devices. Mentored junior engineers.
Embedded Software Engineer
Sagemcom
Built and maintained DOCSIS 3.0 cable-modem services on embedded Linux (C/C++, MIPS, Broadcom middleware) across WiFi, GUI, and SNMP domains.
Embedded Software Engineer
Acoba
Designed embedded camera software with motion detection, IoT event notifications, and cloud integration, including security and auto-update features.
Backend Engineer
MaxKO
Reverse-engineered an undocumented client-server binary protocol for an MMORPG from raw traffic — no source, no documentation — and reimplemented missing server features and anti-cheat mechanisms through data analysis. Security-adjacent protocol engineering.