I'm Alex, Google Developer Expert (Cloud & Cloud AI), software engineer and founder based in Frankfurt. I've been building production software for 12 years, the last three focused on AI. Right now I'm working on AI pipelines that process video and audio at scale, building with Gemini, Claude, and Vertex AI. Before that I spent three years managing technical partnerships at ARD Mediathek, working with Google, Amazon, and Deutsche Telekom. Before that I ran pre-sales engineering at a startup. Before that I founded a software consultancy at 19, grew it, and it got acqui-hired. I give talks about AI at conferences (DevFest Hamburg, GDG Lisbon, Hannover Messe 2021), taught at Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences (2023–2024), and co-organized a hackathon with Google and Lufthansa. I've won 7 hackathons, which mostly means I'm good at building things fast and presenting them to strangers. I speak German, English, Spanish, Portuguese and Dutch