To be honest, I used to think "SAP" was just the name of the arena where the Rhein-Neckar Löwen played Handball. I had zero idea what the company actually did until my grandma took me to their Annual General Meeting. That led to a voluntary internship in 12th grade which turned into something I would have never imagined: me leading parts of a project for all of Germany.

Fast forward to 2020: I went from a student to the Android Lead for Germany's official COVID tracing app (Corona-Warn-App) in about 50 days. After the initial release I got to lead the team, and despite being young, I stepped up to manage 10+ developers under extreme pressure.

• 48 Million+ Downloads: Successfully launched and maintained the app used by half the country to trace infection chains
• 0 to 1 in 50 Days: Delivered critical public health software with no initial requirements, shipping production hotfixes for millions of users in under 6 hours
• Open Source Wins: I was terrified our code would be torn apart publicly, but we built an amazing community. One of the most active and most knowledgeable community members turned out to be a 16-year-old student, as a little thank you! helped organize an internship for him.

It was a weird time during Covid. We stayed on calls just to hear each other type, played "Among Us" to have some kind of team building (I always got killed first), and my roommate literally cooked and brought food to my desk so I could keep working. Danke Amdi :)

Tried to build a company. Spoiler: We failed.

I remember printing hundreds of flyers, throwing them into mailboxes in my hometown, and getting exactly zero responses. I posted on LinkedIn looking for rooftops, got on calls with homeowners, and realized: I have no idea what I'm doing. What we are doing.

We pivoted wildly trying to find something that works:

• Solar on Shipping Containers: Too niche
• Solar Fintech: Attempting to democratize access for departments (the main dream)
• The Final Pivot: An app for apartment renters to participate in the green transition

I spent nights on endless spreadsheet calculations trying to balance risk factors for homeowners against our own exposure. In the end, the math only worked with massive scale. Investors demanded a proof of concept. We realized that without deep capital or a massive network, the risk profile was impossible for three first-time founders.

I was originally rehired to build "Product Led Support" to stop tickets from out scaling our agents, but as big enterprise clients landed, my team had to pivot to maintaining the exports and notification service (push, sms, email). Then came the opportunity to lead a Home Energy Management Systems (HEMS) project with a large Danish utility.

After a year, we hit a wall. We were "shipping our org chart", three different squads with conflicting roadmaps trying to control the charge session of an EV: Grid, Load Management, HEMS. I pushed to merge these into one unified End-to-End Energy Management squad and strategy.

• Scaled HEMS: Took the HEMS from 0 to 3,000+ connected homes supporting Solar inverters, Smart Meter readers (MQTT, HTTP) and CT-Clamps via OCPP.
• Grid Services: Took ownership of the domain, expanding beyond FCR-D (DK, SE, UK) our portfolio to include aFRR (DK) and overhauling the UX to make complex flexibility markets accessible.
• Monta Control: Rebranded and repositioned an internal utility ("CPI tool") into a customer-facing product that became Monta's AI playground.

I've always been the "Tools Guy". I simply love tinkering with new tech, so I naturally ended up helping my colleagues figure out how to use AI to automate the boring parts of our jobs.

• Enablement: Ran cross-department knowledge sharing and 1:1 sessions to up-level colleagues, helping them build their own automations.
• Zapier Workflows: Built automations to scan sales and CS transcripts, ensuring I stayed on top of real customer needs and could proactively support colleagues when problems spiked (one of my fav automations).
• Automation & AI Squad: Joined the squad to push these topics across the entire company, also hosted a hackathon.
• First MCP Server: Built Monta's first MCP server to control the entire CPMS via prompts, hooking it up to internal systems to automate QA and generate instant, customized customer demos.

I learned a shit ton 😞

I saw a posting for an intern and loved the mission, but I told them I couldn't work part-time without pay. So we found a solution: I did this project as part of my Master's degree. This allowed me to dedicate my "study time" to building a product I actually cared about, while keeping a paying job on the side.

• Mobile Booking System: Designed and shipped the app enabling thousands of volunteers to kayak for free in exchange for ocean cleanup. Increasing self-service rate to reduce workload for hosts.
• Solo Builder: I acted as a one-man product team: scoping the MVP, building clickable Figma prototypes, testing with users and managing an external dev agency to get it shipped.
• Impact: The app is live with 20,000+ downloads and actively helping clean the worlds waterways.

PS: I might have written a few lines of code myself, but let's not look too closely at those 😊

Currently working as Product Release Manager at Electricity Maps. More information will follow soon.