Dev turned Operator. I bridge the gap between "AI Hype" and "Production Reality."
I don't just advise โ I build the engine for value creation. Ship production LLM platforms (0โ1 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 โข Founder @ DocIQ
| ๐จ Builder | Built and sold AI LegalTech to Swiss enterprises (incl. Swisscom) via DocIQ |
| โ๏ธ Operator | Operating Principal (AI) @ GrowthFactors โ deploying a standardized AI operating system across Bregal's portfolio companies |
| ๐ Technical Expert (ITDR) | Listed expert for Swiss arbitration & complex data disputes |
| ๐ก 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
๐๏ธ Reusable AI Platforms
โ LLM API gateways, vector search services, context engineering, evaluation frameworks
๐ Privacy-Preserving AI
โ On-prem PII masking (~97% accuracy) for FADP/GDPR compliance
๐ค Agentic Architectures
โ Multi-agent systems, prompt-to-structured-data compilers, semantic search at scale
๐จโ๐ป Developer Enablement
โ AI coding assistant rollouts, prompt/playbook patterns, safety guardrails
๐ Production LLM Ops
โ Evaluation pipelines (quality/safety/latency/cost), observability, A/B testing
| ๐ | Shipped a production LLM platform in <3 months, driving new ARR in Swiss hospitals |
| ๐งฉ | Built reusable AI components adopted by 6+ internal teams |
| โก | Scaled AI native development streams and methodologies to 500+ engineers with measurable productivity gains |
| ๐ค | Forged strategic partnerships (cloud providers, research institutions) |
| ๐ค | Speaker at openEHR.ch Symposium: Agentic AI for Structured Clinical Data |
- ๐งญ Flow-Next - Agents that finish what they start. Fresh context per iteration, cross-model review gates, file I/O as state. Two models > one. Ralph Mode for full autonomy. The agent loop Anthropic's own guidance recommends but their plugin doesn't implement.
- ๐งญ Flow - Most agent failures are process failures. Plan first, drift never. RepoPrompt + Beads for Carmack-level cross-model reviews.
- ๐ง GNO - Your local second brain. Best-in-class hybrid search for all your docsโMarkdown, PDF, Office, you name it. CLI, MCP, web UIโfor humans and AI agents alike.
- ๐ sheets-cli - Google Sheets primitives for humans and agents. Pipe-friendly.
- ๐ raindrop-skill - Agent Skill for Raindrop.io bookmarks. Works with Claude Code, Codex, Amp, OpenCode.
- ๐ better-skill-builder - Teaches AI agents to build skills. Battle-tested patterns, not theory.
- ๐ง outlookctl - When Graph API is blocked, COM whispers to Classic Outlook.
- โ๏ธ claude-code-config - My Claude Code setup. Steal freely.
- โ๏ธ SmartTrim - AI clipboard carnage? Fixed. Ghost indentation, begone.
- ๐ cursor-windsurf-convert - Surf your AI rules between Cursor and Windsurf. Lossless.
- ๐ CalSync - Clone Apple Calendar events. Simple utility, does one thing.
- ๐ค CodeWhisper - The OG planโimplement agent. Still my daily driver for repo context.
- ๐ง memorybot - Unlimited context chatbot. Before it was cool.
- ๐๏ธ turborepo-shadcn-nextjs - Next.js + Nextra + Storybook + shadcn/ui. Bun & Biome powered.
- ๐ฎ CodeQuest - Quiz game framework. Build your own learning adventures.
- ๐ฅ openehr-quest - Learn OpenEHR via CodeQuest
- ๐ก hugh - Node.js Hue bridge lib
- ๐ค telegram-hue-bot - Lights via Telegram
| Focus | What It Means |
|---|---|
| ๐ Rewire SDLC | Move teams from Copilot autocomplete to AI-native workflows (Plan โ Build โ Deploy) |
| ๐ค Ops Agents | Replace manual back-office loops (Finance, HR, Support) with autonomous systems |
| ๐ Product AI | Ship features that drive NRR & EBITDA โ 30-day lighthouse pilots, kill or scale |
| ๐ | Advisory/consulting: Book a call |
| ๐ฌ | Questions/feedback: DM on X |
| ๐ | Open to select opportunities where technical depth meets strategic impact |
| โค๏ธ | Support: GitHub Sponsors ยท 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
โก๏ธ More posts on Medium ยท More on Substack โฌ ๏ธ
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