Dev turned Operator. I bridge the gap between "AI Hype" and "Production Reality."
I don't just advise — I build the engine for value creation. Ship production LLM platforms (0→1 fast), enable engineering teams, and treat AI as infrastructure, not a feature.
Now: Operating Principal (AI) @ GrowthFactors (Bregal Unternehmerkapital) Prev: Head of AI @ CISTEC AG • Founder @ DocIQ
| 🔨 Builder | Built and sold AI LegalTech to Swiss enterprises (incl. Swisscom) via DocIQ |
| ⚙️ Operator | Operating Principal (AI) @ GrowthFactors — deploying a standardized AI operating system across Bregal's portfolio companies |
| 🎓 Technical Expert (ITDR) | Listed expert for Swiss arbitration & complex data disputes |
| 💡 Advisor | Guide VCs, C-suites, and portfolio companies on AI strategy, architecture, and risk via Mickel Tech |
Creating robust, production-ready AI systems that drive measurable outcomes
🏗️ Reusable AI Platforms
→ LLM API gateways, vector search services, context engineering, evaluation frameworks
🔒 Privacy-Preserving AI
→ On-prem PII masking (~97% accuracy) for FADP/GDPR compliance
🤖 Agentic Architectures
→ Multi-agent systems, prompt-to-structured-data compilers, semantic search at scale
👨💻 Developer Enablement
→ AI coding assistant rollouts, prompt/playbook patterns, safety guardrails
📊 Production LLM Ops
→ Evaluation pipelines (quality/safety/latency/cost), observability, A/B testing
| 🚀 | Shipped a production LLM platform in <3 months, driving new ARR in Swiss hospitals |
| 🧩 | Built reusable AI components adopted by 6+ internal teams |
| ⚡ | Scaled AI native development streams and methodologies to 500+ engineers with measurable productivity gains |
| 🤝 | Forged strategic partnerships (cloud providers, research institutions) |
| 🎤 | Speaker at openEHR.ch Symposium: Agentic AI for Structured Clinical Data |
- 🧭 Flow - Most agent failures are process failures. Plan first, drift never. RepoPrompt + Beads for Carmack-level cross-model reviews.
- 🧠 GNO - Your local second brain. Best-in-class hybrid search for all your docs—Markdown, PDF, Office, you name it. CLI, MCP, web UI—for humans and AI agents alike.
- 📊 sheets-cli - Google Sheets primitives for humans and agents. Pipe-friendly.
- 📧 outlookctl - When Graph API is blocked, COM whispers to Classic Outlook.
- ⚙️ claude-code-config - My Claude Code setup. Steal freely.
- ✂️ SmartTrim - AI clipboard carnage? Fixed. Ghost indentation, begone.
- 🏄 cursor-windsurf-convert - Surf your AI rules between Cursor and Windsurf. Lossless.
- 📅 CalSync - Clone Apple Calendar events. Simple utility, does one thing.
- 🤖 CodeWhisper - The OG plan→implement agent. Still my daily driver for repo context.
- 🧠 memorybot - Unlimited context chatbot. Before it was cool.
- 🏗️ turborepo-shadcn-nextjs - Next.js + Nextra + Storybook + shadcn/ui. Bun & Biome powered.
- 🎮 CodeQuest - Quiz game framework. Build your own learning adventures.
- 🏥 openehr-quest - Learn OpenEHR via CodeQuest
- 💡 hugh - Node.js Hue bridge lib
- 🤖 telegram-hue-bot - Lights via Telegram
| Focus | What It Means |
|---|---|
| 🔄 Rewire SDLC | Move teams from Copilot autocomplete to AI-native workflows (Plan → Build → Deploy) |
| 🤖 Ops Agents | Replace manual back-office loops (Finance, HR, Support) with autonomous systems |
| 📈 Product AI | Ship features that drive NRR & EBITDA — 30-day lighthouse pilots, kill or scale |
| 📅 | Advisory/consulting: Book a call |
| 💬 | Questions/feedback: DM on X |
| 🚀 | Open to select opportunities where technical depth meets strategic impact |
| ❤️ | Support: GitHub Sponsors · Ko-fi |
- The "Context Hygiene" Problem: Why I rewrote my Claude Code workflows
- Announcing gmickel-bench: Real-World Evals
- Claude Opus 4.5 Unlocks the "No Restart" Workflow
- The Merchants of Complexity: Why AI Finally Delivers What Agile Promised
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