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Hi, I'm
Nico Rimmele.

Technical Architect & De-facto Head of AI, virtual7 GmbH. Technical architect for a 60-person customer project and, separately, entrusted with an informal but company-wide mandate as virtual7's go-to person for AI. I drive AI transformation hands-on — with an 80% win rate on technical presales, multiple AI workshops across the company, and a clear eye for where AI genuinely moves the needle.

"I test what's actually possible with AI myself before I ask a team to bet on it. I find the best solution together with smart people, not the most comfortable one."

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Expertise at a Glance

15+ years of experience in software development, focused on architecture, team leadership, and innovative technologies.

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Industry Experience

Public Administration AI/ML Gaming / AI Telecommunications Business Software AI/ML & R&D DevOps / Infrastructure AI / Content
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AI & Innovation

Pioneering work with RAG systems, LLMs, and multi-agent orchestration

architecture

Software Architecture

Designing and implementing scalable systems for government agencies and enterprises

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Team Leadership

Direct leadership of teams up to 20, technical leadership for a 60-person project

About Me

You're reading an AI system. This portfolio parses job postings, matches them against my real experience, and rebuilds itself into a tailored profile per application — most recently for a role at Orcrist Technologies. Same agentic workflow I use to ship production RAG systems.

Most organizations either bolt AI onto old workflows or wait for the perfect strategy before starting. I test what's actually possible myself first — including on my own AI server at home (RTX 4070 Ti, locally hosted Qwen models, autonomous Hermes agents via LiteLLM) — before I ask a team to bet on it.

As Principal Technical Consultant at virtual7 GmbH, I'm the technical architect for a ~60-person customer project — and, separately, hold an informal but company-wide mandate as virtual7's go-to person for AI. Virtually every company-wide AI question ends up on my desk: from RAG rollout to AI workshops to technical presales (80% win rate on public-sector tenders).

The best solutions rarely come from one person alone; I work them out with the team. That's also why I share what I learn publicly, including on my YouTube channel KImitOtterKiesel, which explains AI topics comic-style for beginners and kids. If I can explain agentic AI to an eight-year-old with a comic otter, I can explain it to your board.

Core Strengths

psychology

AI Leadership & Enablement

Go-to person for AI across virtual7 as a company - actively involved in the company's AI readiness, independent of the client project. Drives practical AI adoption through workshops and experimentation, not top-down decisions.

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RAG & Agentic Coding

Hands-on with multi-agent systems for ~2 years. RAG systems from prototype to pilot rollout, including my own AI server at home.

architecture

Software Architecture

iSAQB CPSA-AL certified. Making complex systems understandable.

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Agile Leadership

CAL-E, CAL-T, CAL-O certified. Enabling and developing teams.

Professional Experience

15+ years of experience in software development. A chronological overview of my career, projects, and milestones.

Current

Principal Technical Consultant

virtual7 GmbH

Jun 2021 — Present

5yr 1mo

location_on Hamburg, Germany
  • Technical lead & software architect for a 60-person customer project (as a consultant)
  • Go-to person for AI across virtual7 as a company - actively involved in making the company AI-ready for the future (independent of the client project)
  • Team development: I lead and develop 10 colleagues - first point of contact for work and personal matters, career growth and wellbeing; one of the roles leading the cluster
  • Strategy development: I shape our cluster's strategy - market positioning against competitors, winning customers and projects, and the technology, staffing and growth course
  • Recruiting: I own the staffing process - CV screening, candidate interviews, and hiring decisions
  • Technical presales: 80% win rate on public-sector tenders
JavaSpring BootReactTypeScriptKubernetesDockerElasticsearchPostgreSQL

Senior Technical Consultant

virtual7 GmbH

Jan 2018 — May 2021

3yr 4mo

location_on Hamburg, Germany
  • Technical architecture and consulting for public-sector clients
  • Team leadership and development coordination
  • Agile transformation and coaching
  • DevOps and CI/CD implementation
JavaSpring BootAngularOraclePostgreSQLDockerJenkins

Software Developer / Lead Developer

1&1 Mail & Media Development & Technology GmbH

Jan 2012 — Jan 2018

6 yrs

location_on Karlsruhe, Deutschland
  • Lead Developer in mehreren High-Scale-Projekten
  • Event-Driven Architecture mit Apache Kafka
  • Security Advisor - Implementierung des Microsoft SSDLC
  • SSO-Service für alle 1&1, Web.de, GMX Produkte
  • DE-Mail System - konzipiert für jeden deutschen Bürger
  • Monitoring-Infrastruktur mit Prometheus & Grafana
JavaSpring BootAngularJavaScriptDockerKubernetesApache KafkaOAuth2

Software Engineer

Nero Development & Services GmbH

Jan 2011 — Nov 2011

10 mo

location_on Karlsruhe, Deutschland
  • Softwareentwicklung für Multimedia-Anwendungen
  • Datenbank-Performance-Optimierung
PHPMySQLJavascriptHTMLCSS

Technical Lead

MARTES NEW MEDIA

Jan 2010 — Jan 2011

1 yr

location_on Karlsruhe, Deutschland
  • Technische Teamleitung
  • Webentwicklungsprojekte
  • Technologiestrategie
PHPJavaScriptHTMLCSSMySQLjQuery

Spieleentwickler

Gameforge Productions GmbH

Aug 2008 — Dec 2008

4 mo

location_on Karlsruhe, Germany
  • Entwicklung von Browser-basierten Online-Spielen
  • Backend-Entwicklung für Gaming-Plattform
  • Erfahrung in der Gaming-Industrie
PHPJavaScriptMySQLGame DevelopmentWeb DevelopmentActionScript

Webentwickler / Fachinformatiker

Asknet AG

Aug 2005 — Jul 2008

2yr 11mo

location_on Karlsruhe, Germany
  • IHK-zertifizierter Fachinformatiker Anwendungsentwicklung
  • Full-Stack Webentwicklung
  • Datenbankdesign und -management
  • Grundlagen der Softwareentwicklung
PHPJavaScriptHTMLCSSMySQLWeb Development

Projects

A selection of my most significant projects in software architecture, team leadership, and technical innovation.

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ITZBund Hamburg (Germany's Federal IT Center)

RIKO - Risk Management Web Application

Technical Lead & Software Architect

Risk management application for German customs (the ATLAS system, Germany's federal customs risk-management platform). Classified government project (VS-NfD — a German government security clearance level, roughly equivalent to NATO RESTRICTED). Technical leadership and architecture ownership for a 60-person project. Full technology modernization from Java EE to Spring Framework, plus the introduction of AI systems.

badge Role: Technical Lead & Architect
analytics Project Size: 60 people
groups QA Team: 16 members (team lead since 2025)
groups Dev Team: 20 developers (team lead 2022-2024)

Highlights

  • ✓ Full technical ownership of a 60-person project
  • ✓ Full migration from Java EE to Spring Framework
  • ✓ Frontend transformation from PrimeFaces to React + TypeScript
  • ✓ Test automation: 0% → 60% coverage over 3 years
  • ✓ Code quality: held consistently at 60-85%
  • ✓ Established SLOs/SLIs and error budgets for production operations
  • ✓ Introduced Elasticsearch for search optimization
  • ✓ AI architecture leadership: RAG system from prototype to pilot rollout within the project
  • ✓ Monitoring infrastructure with Prometheus & Grafana

Tech Stack

Java Spring Boot React TypeScript Elasticsearch PostgreSQL Docker Kubernetes OpenShift Jenkins Prometheus Grafana Redux Maven Groovy Git Jira Confluence JUnit SonarQube
Active star Featured schedule 1yr 6mo
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virtual7 GmbH (Internal)

RAG Demo - LightRAG System

Developer, Architect

From rapid prototype to pilot rollout: a self-hosted RAG system built with n8n, PostgreSQL, and LightRAG. Built for privacy-sensitive environments with no external API dependencies. Currently in pilot rollout at RIKO.

info status: In pilot rollout at RIKO
info Approach: Prototype → Pilot Rollout

Highlights

  • ✓ Rapid prototype: from idea to pilot rollout
  • ✓ Self-hosted AI - no external API dependencies
  • ✓ Presented at multiple events
  • ✓ Currently in pilot rollout at RIKO, with an initial user group
  • ✓ Strategic foundation for AI adoption at virtual7
  • ✓ Promoted as a client solution strategy
  • ✓ Local LLM integration with Ollama

Tech Stack

Python PostgreSQL pgvector Ollama LightRAG n8n Docker OpenAI API Cohere
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Active star Featured schedule 5 mo
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Personal Project

Hive - Multi-Agent AI Software Development System

Developer, Architect

An ambitious multi-agent system that models an AI software-development company: multiple specialized agents move work through a 14-phase Secure SDLC with quality gates, human-in-the-loop governance, and continuous organizational learning. Self-hosted, open-sourced as a curated showcase.

info Approach: Multi-agent SSDLC
info Scope: 14 phases, quality gates, HITL

Highlights

  • ✓ 14-phase Secure SDLC with quality gates between every phase
  • ✓ Multiple specialized agents (architecture, implementation, review, security, QA)
  • ✓ Human-in-the-loop governance for all safety-critical actions
  • ✓ Go orchestrator + n8n automation + SurrealDB as state and audit store
  • ✓ Continuous organizational learning via learning loops
  • ✓ Self-hosted, with no dependency on external SaaS agent platforms

Tech Stack

Go n8n SurrealDB Docker Claude Code CLI Codex CLI Multi-Agent Systems LLM Orchestration
Code
Active star Featured schedule 6 mo
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Personal Project

Conductor - Multi-Agent Development System

Developer, Architect

Rapid prototype: a multi-agent orchestration system, built in 4 weeks. Coordinates Claude Code, Cursor CLI, and Gemini CLI through a structured 5-phase workflow. A demonstration of AI-accelerated development.

info development: 4-week MVP
info Approach: Rapid Prototyping

Highlights

  • ✓ Rapid prototype: MVP in 4 weeks
  • ✓ Python-based multi-agent orchestration
  • ✓ Live orchestration with Claude Code
  • ✓ Parallel reviews with Cursor and Gemini
  • ✓ TDD enforcement with quality thresholds
  • ✓ Self-healing via a fixer loop
  • ✓ Presented at virtual7 to inspire colleagues

Tech Stack

Python LangGraph SurrealDB Claude Code CLI Cursor CLI Gemini CLI Git TDD
Code
Active star Featured schedule 2 mo
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Personal Project

Klubhaus Elf - Async Football Manager, Built by AI Agents

Architect, AI Orchestration

A full asynchronous football-manager game as an offline-first PWA in the style of the classic 'Anstoß' series — developed end-to-end by AI agents. Currently in the architecture phase: a spec-driven architecture and design vault serves as the specification the agents build the game from.

Highlights

  • ✓ Goal: a complete async football-manager game as an offline-first PWA
  • ✓ Developed end-to-end by AI agents (spec-driven development)
  • ✓ Currently in the architecture phase — architecture and domain model as the specification
  • ✓ Architecture/design vault as the single source of truth for the agents
  • ✓ Builds on the multi-agent systems (Hive, Conductor)

Tech Stack

PWA TypeScript Offline-First Async Gameplay Multi-Agent Development Spec-Driven Development Obsidian
Code
Active star Featured schedule 1 mo
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Personal Project

X-AI-Stack - Consolidated AI-Engineering Monorepo

Developer, Architect

A consolidated monorepo holding the entire personal AI stack under one version, structured by bounded context / Domain-Driven Design: Nexus Portal, Immo, Design System, Agent Stack, AI-Review-Pipeline, and Infra.

Highlights

  • ✓ Bounded-context structure following Domain-Driven Design across six domains
  • ✓ Nexus Portal: a private PWA acting as an app shell for mini-apps (Finance, Research, News, Wiki)
  • ✓ Immo: real-estate portfolio management with DDD, Drizzle/Postgres
  • ✓ Design System as the single source of truth for design tokens and style guide
  • ✓ Agent Stack: multi-CLI tooling setup (skills, MCP, dotbot)
  • ✓ AI-Review-Pipeline: a 5-stage automated PR-review pipeline cloned by consumer repos
  • ✓ Infra: Ansible provisioning of the self-hosted AI server

Tech Stack

TypeScript Monorepo DDD Drizzle PostgreSQL n8n Ansible
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Active star Featured schedule 2yr 1mo
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Personal Project

AI Home Lab - Self-Hosted AI Infrastructure

Operator, Architect

A private AI server for local LLM inference and autonomous multi-agent workflows. A hands-on lab for self-hosted AI, agentic coding, and tool orchestration outside of cloud APIs.

info hardware: RTX 4070 Ti / Ryzen 9 / 64GB RAM
info focus: Agentic Coding & RAG

Highlights

  • ✓ Personal AI server: RTX 4070 Ti, Ryzen 9, 64GB RAM
  • ✓ Locally hosted Qwen (latest version) for inference with no cloud dependency
  • ✓ Autonomous 'Hermes' agents for independent multi-agent workflows
  • ✓ LiteLLM as a unifying gateway - bundles several subscription-based AI CLI tools into a single agent-callable interface
  • ✓ Hands-on lab for agentic coding and RAG experiments outside the cloud

Tech Stack

Qwen LiteLLM Multi-Agent Systems Docker Linux Self-Hosted LLM Inference
Active star Featured schedule 4 mo
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Personal Project

AI Research Workflow - Multi-Source Research Pipeline

Developer, Architect

An n8n-based AI research pipeline: multiple search sources run in parallel, followed by a verification stage (Chain-of-Verification + Judge) and quality gates. Self-hosted, open-sourced as a sanitized showcase.

info Approach: n8n + CoVe verification

Highlights

  • ✓ Multiple search sources run in parallel as dedicated branches
  • ✓ Verification stage with Chain-of-Verification (CoVe) + Judge against hallucinations
  • ✓ Quality gates and a qualified-source system
  • ✓ Contract-first n8n workflows with typed inputs/outputs
  • ✓ Self-hosted, with no dependency on external SaaS research tools

Tech Stack

n8n SurrealDB LLM Orchestration Chain-of-Verification Multi-Source Search Docker
Code
Active star Featured schedule 6 mo
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Personal Project

This CV Platform — an AI-Tailored Portfolio Pipeline

Developer, Architect

The platform you're reading right now: a markdown-first portfolio system with a documented AI workflow that parses job postings and builds a tailored profile from them — already used for real, for an application to Orcrist Technologies.

info profiles: 3 audience-tailored profiles from one source
info workflow: Job posting → AI match analysis → tailored profile

Highlights

  • ✓ Content-collection architecture: profile, experience, projects, skills, certifications as versioned Markdown/YAML
  • ✓ Documented AI workflow: job posting → requirement match against real CV data → tailored profile
  • ✓ Actually used: the 'orcrist' profile was generated for a real application to Orcrist Technologies
  • ✓ Multilingual (DE/EN) and multi-audience (default, tech-lead, job-specific) from a single source of truth

Tech Stack

Astro TypeScript Markdown/YAML Content Collections Claude Code Cursor CLI Git
schedule 1 yr
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1&1 Mail & Media Development & Technology GmbH

SSO - Single Sign-On Service

Software Developer

SSO service integrated into all 1&1, Web.de, and GMX products, with identity-verification capabilities.

Highlights

  • ✓ Integrated into all 1&1, Web.de, and GMX products
  • ✓ Identity verification via national ID card
  • ✓ Modern Spring Boot and microservices architecture
  • ✓ Integration of multiple partner interfaces

Tech Stack

Spring Boot Spring Security Spring Data OAuth2 Docker Kubernetes Microservices
Active schedule 1yr 6mo
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Private Company

KOMPASS - CRM & Project Management Platform

Developer, Architect, Consultant

Integrated CRM & project management tool, designed as an offline-first PWA for sales teams and project managers. 20 active users in production.

Highlights

  • ✓ 20 active users in production
  • ✓ Offline-first architecture with PouchDB/CouchDB sync
  • ✓ GoBD compliance (German financial-record compliance) for German financial regulations
  • ✓ Role-based access control (RBAC) with 5 user roles
  • ✓ Consulting and advisory role for the company

Tech Stack

TypeScript React TanStack Router TanStack Query PouchDB CouchDB Tailwind CSS PWA GraphQL
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schedule 4 yrs
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ITZBund

REB/OZEAN - Research Platform

Technical Lead & Software Architect

Complete rebuild of a modular research platform for customs data analysis. Processing of vast data volumes from German customs information databases and corporate tax data. Designed as a modular application-platform system for various research applications.

info Data Scope: German customs & corporate tax databases
badge Role: Technical Lead & Architect
info Approach: Legacy Modernization

Highlights

  • ✓ Complete rebuild initiated as Technical Lead
  • ✓ Modular application platform for various research applications
  • ✓ Processing of the entire German customs information databases
  • ✓ German corporate tax data integrated
  • ✓ Elasticsearch for optimized search over large data volumes
  • ✓ Accessible, responsive web application (WCAG)
  • ✓ Requirements gathering and stocktaking on-site with the client

Tech Stack

Java Spring Boot Oracle Elasticsearch Angular REST API Docker ETL Pipelines Responsive Web Accessibility (WCAG) PL/SQL Maven Git Jira
Active schedule 7yr 7mo
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virtual7 GmbH (Internal)

LouKI 7 - AI Gaming Project

Developer, Architect

AI system that plays the children's game 'Looping Louie' using sensors and mechanics. Real-time sensor-data processing with a Python backend, dashboard visualization with Angular.

info platform: Google Cloud
info dataType: Real-time sensor data
info backend: Python

Highlights

  • ✓ Python backend for sensor-data processing
  • ✓ Frontend infrastructure and dashboard architecture
  • ✓ Real-time data visualization of the AI system
  • ✓ Integration with AI-provided interfaces and data streams
  • ✓ Implementation of the Google Cloud infrastructure
  • ✓ Pipelines for sensor-data processing and analysis

Tech Stack

Python TypeScript Angular Google Cloud Real-time Data Sensors WebSocket Data Visualization
schedule 4yr 11mo
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1&1 Mail & Media Development & Technology GmbH

DE-Mail System

Lead Developer & Software Architect

Concept design and architecture of the DE-Mail system - designed with every German citizen as a potential user. Legally binding e-mail system with full identity verification. Integrated into all 1&1, Web.de, and GMX products.

schedule Duration: 4+ years
info Scope: All 1&1, Web.de, GMX products
info Scale: Designed for millions of users

Highlights

  • ✓ System concept design and architecture for millions of potential users
  • ✓ Full identity verification via national ID card
  • ✓ Integrated into all 1&1, Web.de, GMX products
  • ✓ TKUEV compliance and G10 system integration
  • ✓ Event-driven architecture with Apache Kafka
  • ✓ Ensured legally traceable identification
  • ✓ Numerous interfaces for verification providers
  • ✓ Single sign-on integration

Tech Stack

Java Spring Boot REST API Apache Kafka Ruby on Rails HTML/CSS JavaScript Security TKUEV Compliance Identity Verification XML SOAP Maven Git
schedule 2 yrs
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1&1 Mail & Media Development & Technology GmbH

SSDLC - Secure Software Development Lifecycle

Security Advisor, Concept Design

Introduction of the Microsoft Secure Software Development Lifecycle (SDL) to address security aspects early in the development process. Role as Security Advisor implementing the SDL methodology across the teams.

info Methodology: Microsoft SDL
info Scope: Cross-team implementation

Highlights

  • ✓ Implementation and application of the Microsoft SDL
  • ✓ Evaluation of development processes against security criteria
  • ✓ Development of solution approaches for security challenges
  • ✓ Raising security awareness across the team
  • ✓ Security review processes and guidelines
  • ✓ Cross-team rollout of the security methodology

Tech Stack

Microsoft SDL Security Review Threat Modeling Code Analysis Security Testing Prozessdesign Team Training
schedule 11 mo
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1&1 Mail & Media Development & Technology GmbH

Angular Component Library

Lead Developer

Built a demo application for a component framework (Angular Library) enabling modular website construction with integrated documentation.

info type: Component Library
info framework: Angular

Highlights

  • ✓ Integration of the Angular Library
  • ✓ Design of the demo application as a component showcase
  • ✓ Framework for modular website construction
  • ✓ Integrated documentation system
  • ✓ Reusable component patterns

Tech Stack

Angular TypeScript Component Library Documentation Modular Architecture Storybook
schedule 2 yrs
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1&1 Mail & Media Development & Technology GmbH

Build Test Dashboard

Sub-project Lead

Event-driven KPI dashboard for build tests and system status. Data collection from Jenkins and GoCD via Kafka. Real-time visualization and cross-team dependency monitoring.

info integrations: Jenkins, GoCD, Kafka
info type: Internal DevOps Tool

Highlights

  • ✓ Event-driven data collection with Apache Kafka
  • ✓ KPI visualization dashboards
  • ✓ Cross-team dependency monitoring
  • ✓ Pre-checks for integration-test dependencies
  • ✓ Implementation of Docker and TestContainers
  • ✓ Monitoring with Prometheus & Grafana

Tech Stack

Spring Boot Apache Kafka Docker TestContainers Jenkins GoCD Prometheus Grafana KPI Dashboards Groovy
Active schedule 1yr 6mo
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Personal Project

Etrox Infrastructure

DevOps Engineer

Infrastructure-as-code repository for personal projects and services. Managing self-hosted infrastructure using modern DevOps practices.

info type: IaC
info Scope: Personal Infrastructure

Highlights

  • ✓ Infrastructure as code for personal projects
  • ✓ Automated server provisioning and configuration
  • ✓ Docker container management
  • ✓ Orchestration of self-hosted services

Tech Stack

Terraform Ansible Shell Docker Infrastructure as Code Linux
Code
Active schedule 1 mo
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Personal Project

AI with Otter & Kiesel - AI-Explainer Content with a Production Pipeline

Creator, Developer

A German YouTube-Shorts channel that explains AI topics in simple language — with a semi-automated production pipeline from script through ElevenLabs voices and Kling character video to local FFmpeg editing and subtitles.

Highlights

  • ✓ Target audience: adults 45+ with no prior AI knowledge
  • ✓ Two characters: an otter (the teacher) and a pebble/stone (asks the naive questions)
  • ✓ Vertical shorts, 9:16 format, 1080x1920, target length 30-45 seconds
  • ✓ Semi-automated production pipeline: script → ElevenLabs TTS → Kling character video (via fal.ai) → local FFmpeg editing & subtitles

Tech Stack

Python ElevenLabs Kling fal.ai FFmpeg TTS
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Active schedule 5 mo
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Personal Project

FORGE - AI Game Development Studio

Developer, Architect

A multi-agent AI game-development studio, forked from Hive. Adapts Hive's orchestration framework for game development: 20 specialized agents cover the full SDLC from concept to live service. Not a game engine — a team of LLM-powered agents.

Highlights

  • ✓ 20 specialized agents for game-dev roles (producer, game designer, technical architect, gameplay/engine programmers, build engineer, QA, security/anti-cheat, liveops, docs, review)
  • ✓ Forked from Hive — orchestration framework adapted for game development
  • ✓ Primary engine target: Unreal Engine 5.5+ (Godot as an alternative)
  • ✓ Full SDLC coverage from concept to live service
  • ✓ Shares infrastructure (monitoring, knowledge base, consensus engine) with Hive

Tech Stack

Go n8n SurrealDB Docker Claude Code CLI Codex CLI Multi-Agent Systems LLM Orchestration Unreal Engine Godot
Code

Technical Skills

verified 91+ Technologies

A comprehensive overview of my technical skills and expertise across 13 areas of software development.

psychology

AI & Machine Learning

11 Skills

RAG Systeme

LightRAG, Produktionsimplementierung in RIKO

OpenAI GPT

GPT-4, GPT-3.5, API Integration, Funktionsaufrufe

Claude (Anthropic)

Claude 3.5 Sonnet, Prompt Engineering

Google Gemini

Gemini Pro, Multimodal AI

LLM Integration

Multi-Provider Setup, Ollama & Qwen (lokale Modelle), eigener KI-Server

Multi-Agent Systeme

LangGraph, Conductor (4 Wochen MVP), autonome 'Hermes'-Agenten

Vector Datenbanken

pgvector, Embedding-Strategien

n8n Workflows

Automatisierung, RAG-Pipelines

LangGraph

Graph-basierte Workflows

Ollama

Selbst gehostete LLMs

LiteLLM

Gateway zur Vereinheitlichung mehrerer KI-CLI-Tools für autonome Agenten

category

AI Strategy & Leadership

5 Skills

KI-Strategie & Roadmapping

Technologie-Roadmap und Priorisierung für KI-Einführung im 60-Personen-Projekt

KI-Governance & Responsible AI

Bewertung von Risiken, Datenschutz (VS-NfD) und Einsatzgrenzen von KI

LLMOps

Betrieb, Monitoring und Qualitätssicherung von LLM-Systemen in Produktion

KI-Vendor-Evaluierung (Build vs. Buy)

Bewertung von LLM-Providern, Self-Hosted vs. Cloud-APIs

Cross-Org KI-Enablement

Zentraler KI-Experte für virtual7 als Unternehmen, unabhängig vom Kundenprojekt

category

Architecture & Design

9 Skills

Software Architektur

iSAQB CPSA-AL, 60-Personen-Projekt

System Design

Technische Gesamtverantwortung

REST API

API Design, Versionierung, Best Practices

GraphQL

Schema-Design, Query-Optimierung

Security Architecture

VS-NfD klassifizierte Systeme

CI/CD Design

Pipeline-Optimierung, Testautomatisierung

Microservices

Service-Mesh, API Gateway

Event-Driven Architecture

Kafka, Event Sourcing

Domain-Driven Design

Bounded Contexts, Aggregates, Strategic Design

category

Backend Frameworks

6 Skills

Spring Boot

Java EE → Spring Migration, Produktionssysteme

Spring Security

OAuth2, JWT, VS-NfD klassifizierte Systeme

Spring Data JPA

Hibernate, Performance-Optimierung

Hibernate/JPA

ORM, komplexe Datenbankabfragen

Node.js

API-Entwicklung, Microservices

Ruby on Rails

DE-Mail System, Webanwendungen

storage

Databases

5 Skills

PostgreSQL

Produktionssysteme, pgvector für RAG

Elasticsearch

Suchoptimierung bei großen Datenmengen

Oracle

Enterprise-Systeme, PL/SQL

CouchDB/PouchDB

Offline-First PWA, Sync-Strategien

SurrealDB

Multi-Agenten Statusverwaltung

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DevOps & Cloud

13 Skills

Docker

Containerisierung, Multi-Stage Builds

Kubernetes

OpenShift Produktionserfahrung

OpenShift

Behördenprojekte, VS-NfD Umgebungen

Jenkins

CI/CD Pipelines, Shared Libraries

GitHub Actions

CI/CD Workflows

Prometheus

Monitoring-Infrastruktur

Grafana

Dashboards, Alarmierung

OpenTelemetry

Tracing-Konzepte und Instrumentierung

AWS

EKS, RDS, EC2, Lambda, S3

Google Cloud

Cloud Run, Cloud Functions

Dokploy

Selbst gehostete Deployments

GitOps (Argo CD)

GitOps-Prinzipien und CI/CD-Integration

Real-time Data Visualization

LouKI7 Sensoren, Build Dashboard, Live-Metriken

category

Event Streaming

3 Skills

Apache Kafka

Event-gesteuerte Architektur, idempotente Consumer, Backpressure

WebSockets

Echtzeitkommunikation, Live-Updates

Server-Sent Events (SSE)

Echtzeit-Datenstreaming

category

Frontend Frameworks

5 Skills

React

PrimeFaces → React Migration geleitet

Angular

Mehrere Produktionsprojekte

HTML/CSS

Moderne Standards, Responsive Design

Tailwind CSS

Design-Systeme, moderne UI

TanStack (Router/Query)

State Management, Datenabruf

category

Leadership

9 Skills

Team Leadership

20 Entwickler + 16 QA Team Lead

Technical Presales

80% Erfolgsquote bei Ausschreibungen

Mentoring

10 Kollegen Personalverantwortung

Recruiting

50+ technische Interviews

Code Review

Gerrit, Crucible, GitHub Reviews

Agile Leadership

CAL-E, CAL-T, CAL-O zertifiziert

Workshops & Training

React, KI, interne Konferenzen

Stakeholder Management

Behörden, Kunden, Teams

Strategy Development

Cluster-Strategie, Trend-Evaluierung

code

Programming Languages

5 Skills

Java

Spring Boot, Microservices, Enterprise-Systeme

TypeScript

React, Angular, Full-Stack Development

JavaScript

Frontend & Backend, moderne ES6+

Python

AI/ML, RAG-Systeme, Multi-Agent-Orchestrierung

SQL

PostgreSQL, Oracle - komplexe Queries & Performance

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Security

4 Skills

SSDLC

Microsoft SDL als Security Advisor

OAuth2/JWT

SSO für 1&1, Web.de, GMX

OpenID Connect

Identity Layer, SSO Integration

WCAG Accessibility

Barrierefreie Webanwendungen

category

Testing & Quality

10 Skills

JUnit

Unit- & Integrationstests

Mockito

Mocking, Test-Isolation

Selenium

E2E-Tests

TestContainers

Integrationstests mit Docker

SonarQube

Codequalität: 60-85% gehalten

TDD

0% → 60% Coverage-Verbesserung

Cucumber

BDD, Gherkin Syntax

Cypress

Frontend E2E-Tests

Playwright

Moderne E2E-Tests

Spock

BDD Test-Framework

category

Tools

6 Skills

Git

Branching-Strategien, Code Reviews

IntelliJ IDEA

Produktivitäts-Shortcuts, Plugins

VS Code / Cursor

KI-gestützte Entwicklung, Extensions

Atlassian Jira

Projektmanagement, Workflows

Balsamiq

UI Mockups, Wireframing

MapStruct

Java Bean Mapping, Code-Generierung

Expert
Advanced
Beginner

Certifications

Professional certifications in software architecture, agile leadership, and technical domains.

architecture

iSAQB® CPSA-AL - Software Architecture Advanced Level

iSQI Group

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assignment

PRINCE2 Agile Foundation

PeopleCert

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groups

CAL-E - Certified Agile Leadership Essentials

Scrum Alliance D-A-CH e.V.

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architecture

iSAQB® CPSA-F - Software Architecture Foundation Level

iSAQB® – International Software Architecture Qualification Board

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groups

PAL I - Professional Agile Leadership

Scrum.org

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groups

CAL-O - Certified Agile Leadership for Organizations

Scrum Alliance D-A-CH e.V.

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groups

CAL-T - Certified Agile Leadership for Teams

Scrum Alliance D-A-CH e.V.

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security

Best Practices für sichere Web-Anwendungen

SecureNet

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Talks & Publications

📄

Java Aktuell Magazin Artikel

Article

Java Aktuell (iJUG Magazin) • Jun 2021

Veröffentlichter Fachartikel im führenden deutschen Java-Entwicklermagazin über moderne Java-Entwicklungspraktiken.

Java Softwareentwicklung Best Practices
🎬

KImitOtterKiesel - YouTube Channel

Video

YouTube • Jul 2026

A personal YouTube channel bringing AI knowledge to beginners and kids in a comic style - making AI topics accessible to people who haven't worked with AI before. Launching with the first seven videos.

AI Content Creation Knowledge Sharing YouTube
🎤

RAG Demo System - Mehrere Präsentationen

Talk

virtual7 GmbH & Externe Events • Jan 2024

Präsentation eines produktionsreifen RAG-Systems mit n8n, PostgreSQL und LightRAG für Anwendungen des deutschen Zolls. Wird derzeit in Produktion implementiert.

KI RAG LLM n8n PostgreSQL
✍️

Blog-Artikel für virtual7

Blog

virtual7 Blog • Jun 2022

Regelmäßige Blog-Beiträge zu technischen Themen und Best Practices.

Software-Entwicklung Architektur Agile Methoden
🎤

virtual7 Unternehmenskonferenzen

Talk

virtual7 interne Konferenzen • Jan 2020

Regelmäßige Vorträge auf internen virtual7 Konferenzen zu verschiedenen technischen und Leadership-Themen.

KI & Machine Learning Softwarearchitektur Führung & Teamarbeit Persönliche Entwicklung
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JavaScript-Konferenz Vortrag

Talk

JavaScript-Konferenz • Sep 2016

Vortrag auf einer JavaScript-Konferenz über moderne Frontend-Entwicklung.

JavaScript Frontend-Entwicklung Web-Technologien
school

Workshops & Training

📚

React Schulungen

Ongoing

Intern (virtual7 & Kunden)

Durchführung von React-Schulungen für Entwicklerteams zur Einführung in moderne Frontend-Entwicklung.

React TypeScript Frontend-Architektur State Management
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Barrierefreiheit Workshop

Ongoing

Intern & Extern

Workshops zur Implementierung von Barrierefreiheit in Web-Anwendungen nach WCAG-Standards.

Accessibility WCAG ARIA Inklusive Entwicklung
🛠️

KI-gestütztes Coding mit Cursor

Ongoing

Intern (virtual7)

Workshops zur effektiven Nutzung von KI-Tools wie Cursor für die Softwareentwicklung.

KI-Assistenten Cursor IDE Prompt Engineering Produktivitätssteigerung
🛠️

KI-Anwendungen in der Praxis

Ongoing

Intern & Extern

Workshops zu praktischen KI-Anwendungen und deren Integration in Geschäftsprozesse.

Generative KI RAG-Systeme LLM-Integration n8n Workflows
🛠️

Moderne Recherchesysteme mit KI

Intern (virtual7)

Workshop und Showcase zum Aufbau moderner, selbst gehosteter Recherchesysteme mit KI-Unterstützung.

Elasticsearch RAG Semantische Suche Self-Hosting
🎯

Team Leadership & Development

Ongoing

Teamleiter & Manager

Leadership-Workshop zu Teamentwicklung, Kommunikation, Konfliktlösung und dem Aufbau leistungsstarker Teams.

Leadership Teamentwicklung Kommunikation Coaching
public

Community

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Neuland Pro

AI community & conferences

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AI Developer Groups

Active exchange & knowledge sharing

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WeAreDevelopers Berlin

Annual attendance

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Go-to person for AI at virtual7 (the company)

Company-wide, independent of the client project

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YouTube: KImitOtterKiesel

AI knowledge for everyone, comic-style

interests

Interests

🤖 AI Pioneer ✈️ Travel 📷 Photography 🎮 Gaming 🎲 D&D 🏠 Home Automation 🏃 Fitness 🎬 Content Creation ⚽ Stadium Visits

Languages

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German

Native

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English

Fluent