> Souverana

Consulting under the Souverana brand on sovereign AI for organisations whose data cannot leave their control: strategy, infrastructure, platform, and integration, built on open components hosted in Switzerland or on-premise, with the engagement continuing past the concept into implementation and operation.

2026-present
FounderPrincipal AI Consultant
> bbv Software Services

Architected and led the Swiss AI Hub (formerly AI-Hub), now open-source under Apache 2.0, using event-driven microservices (Python, FastAPI, Docker, Dagster) and best-in-class tools (LiteLLM, Milvus, LlamaIndex) for 10+ enterprise clients, establishing a sovereign infrastructure platform with strategic independence from Big Tech.

2023-2026
Senior AI Architect
> PolygonSoftware

Co-founded and scaled technical team from 3 to 18 engineers, established software engineering standards, mentorship culture, and delivered computer vision systems for Swiss Post and AI solutions for enterprise clients.

2019-2023
Founder & CTO
> BESI

Managed full data science lifecycle to replace traditional computer vision with TensorFlow-based CNN model, achieving 99% accuracy in automated defect detection for semiconductor production.

2019-2019
ML Engineer
> Coinpaper.io

Architected serverless ETL pipelines using Luigi, DynamoDB, and API Gateway to process cryptocurrency data from GitHub, Reddit, Telegram, and Google Trends, implementing sentiment analysis and automated scoring algorithms.

2018-2019
Data Engineer

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