About

Hi, I am Michael.

I am an engineer from Leipzig, Germany, who has worked as a researcher, developer, manager, director, VP and finally CTO over my professional career. I started my career doing research and my PhD at the university of Kassel (research group of Prof. Fohry, to be precise). If you are looking for some of my earlier work at the University of Kassel, feel free to visit my list of publications.

Afterwards I joined an awesome company called TomTom, more specifically the Webfleet branch. I have worked my way up there from a developer to manager to finally become CTO. If you want to know a bit more about me from the time when I started this writing adventure, it is probably worth checking the first post on this blog. Webfleet and me have parted ways in 2025 and I am right now pursuing other opportunities – you can find out more about my departure on LinkedIn.

On the use of AI

Whenever I make use of any form of AI (such as ChatGPT) on this blog, I will explicitly mark it accordingly. All content posted on this blog is my own original work, unless otherwise stated.

Disclaimer

Please note that anything I say on this blog or anywhere else on the web is my own personal opinion unless otherwise noted. It does not necessarily represent the views of my current or past employers and should not be taken as such!