Oscian engagement, ongoingTechnology Strategy & AI Adoption for a Software Product Company (Non-Profit Sector) ? incl. IAM Modernization (Oscian engagement, ongoing)

• Client: software product company providing an industry solution for non-profit organizations.

Ongoing engagement scope:

• Designing the company-wide AI adoption (development, customer, and management processes), driving the architecture transformation, and preparing ISO 27001 certification readiness
• Establishing the agile development process and steering the expansion of the development team (hiring)

Delivered in the first two months of the engagement:

• Modernized the product platform's login: designed and implemented the OAuth flow
• Introduced Keycloak as the identity provider
• Introduced a backend-for-frontend API gateway (BFF) between the web app and the backend

Client: AI-powered analytics platform for procurement and manufacturing data of international industrial customers.

• Develops features end-to-end across the full stack ? frontend in two parallel frameworks (Vue.js, Angular), backend in C#/ASP.NET; a delivery engagement running in parallel with the strategy engagement 
• Uses AI tooling throughout the development process

• Responsible for the engineering organization across two locations (Germany, Hungary): 20 developers, 3 architects, 3 team leads ? 26 engineers
• Manages the engineering organization's budget of approx. ?4M ? working directly with product, business, and executive stakeholders
• Established and leads Technical Excellence Groups for AI, .NET, and full-stack
• Owns the platform's architecture governance: defines architecture and engineering standards; drives AI products and AI initiatives

Outcome:

Responsible, with the organization, for the production operation of the entire product portfolio on a shared platform foundation.

Context: The platform provider needed a viable AI strategy for internal efficiency and customer-facing AI capabilities.

• Owned the architecture and expansion of the proprietary product portfolio (C#, React, Azure) ? across backend, frontend, and cloud infrastructure
• Owned the design and execution of the company-wide AI strategy
• Built a RAG pipeline: indexing and vectorization of WordPress, Confluence, and other sources
• Designed an AI chatbot with document and application access
• Enforced security standards for aerospace and defense customers
• Managed 26 developers as direct reports (14 internal, 12 external) + 2 architects; technical leadership of up to 45 engineers (2024?2025)

Outcome:

RAG pipeline and customer-facing AI use cases (Text Summarization, Vector Search, product-specific plugin mechanisms) delivered to customers; two products under ongoing ownership: an AI-native sourcing/procurement product (since 01/2025) and a SaaS product for production monitoring (since 06/2025).

Context: Procurement and supply chain organizations must fulfill regulatory obligations (CO? accounting, CBAM, supply chain due diligence) across their supply chains.

• Designed the architecture of three SaaS products on a shared platform foundation: Product Carbon Footprint (07/2022), LkSG Manager (German Supply Chain Due Diligence Act) (02/2024), CBAM (04/2024)

Outcome:

All three products run in production on the shared platform foundation ? integrated with the central data service and the platform IAM.

• Starting point: A fast-growing SaaS portfolio (today approx. 13 products) needed consistent material and business partner master data ? product-specific, distributed data storage became less sustainable with every additional product.
• Approach: Designed an event-driven data mesh architecture on Azure (Event Hub) and built the central data service as the API backbone for all products. Led the implementation technically; continuous architecture ownership since 2022, operations now part of his line responsibility.
• Outcome: 2+ billion records under management, 100,000+ update operations/day. In production since 2022; today the data foundation of all platform products, used across departments.

• Designed the central Keycloak-based IAM environment in Azure for the entire product portfolio and owns its architecture to this day
• Built identity brokers and custom token APIs for OIDC-based customer access
• Built approx. 20 npm and NuGet packages as a reusable library base ? used across departments, continuously maintained since 2021

Context: Building a new product portfolio on the enterprise platform ? architecture, processes, and team were created in parallel.

• Single-handedly designed multiple multi-tenant SaaS products (C#, React, TypeScript)
• The portfolio included geodata-based risk analysis for insurers, component traceability, supplier evaluation, and ocean freight visibility incl. container tracking
• Provided technical leadership for 25 developers
• Built the DevOps architecture incl. CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps) and IaC templates
• Established a Community of Practice with all senior developers; enforced coding guidelines and security standards
• Conducted technical interviews and helped build the internal dev department

Outcome:

The products designed within the portfolio remain in production use to this day ? part of today's platform portfolio

• Led a customer-specific project for the digital handling of Certificates of Conformity for a European aerospace OEM on the supply chain platform

Outcome:

Brought the fixed-term customer project to full completion after 8 months ? project sign-off with the customer on site.

• Built a search platform spanning multiple web shops: headless CMS (Contentful) and a central search index behind Next.js frontends
• Rebuilt the shops' web and mobile frontends