I build software and agentic systems that keep production running.
Today I lead a group at AUMOVIO (formerly Continental) building software and multi-agent systems that support automotive production — monitoring the lines, steering and replanning around disruptions, and troubleshooting outages by correlating signals into a root-cause hypothesis.
That work sits on top of ~25 years close to the metal:
#0 now agentic systems for production · platform · CI/CD AUMOVIO
#1 2010–2022 architecture across 9 teams · real-time analytics Empolis
#2 2000s HotSpot JVM (x86-64, PowerPC) · original amd64 port Sun & others
#3 since 1999 Blackdown Java-Linux · Linux kernel · GCC · glibc open source
I wrote Java's amd64 backend, ported Eclipse/SWT to 64-bit, and led the Blackdown Java-Linux project. These days I spend more time on Kubernetes, Go, Python, and how far you can push LLM-based agents against real, messy production systems.
Currently into: multi-agent architectures · the Model Context Protocol (MCP) · observability-driven root-cause analysis
- 🌐 More at blackdown.de
Java Technology Achievement Award · JavaWorld "Best JVM" finalist · JCP Expert Group (JSR 176) · USENIX JVM Symposium (PC & session chair) · peer-reviewed publications · Regensburg, Germany