Experience

Software Security Architect

Finanz Informatik GmbH & Co. KG

  • Shape security architecture for secure software development in a large, regulated banking-technology environment.
  • Evaluate developer-centric security tooling and automation for open-source dependency risk, software composition analysis, SBOMs, and CI/CD integration.
  • Structure complex technical problems, compare solution options, and prepare evidence-based recommendations for architecture and management decisions.
  • Contribute to architecture governance and cross-functional alignment between security, software engineering, platform, and control functions.
  • Promote security approaches that improve transparency and risk management without creating unnecessary friction for development teams.

External Doctoral Candidate

Paderborn University

  • Completed the PhD independently alongside industry work after the university employment ended.
  • Dissertation: Secure Integration of Open-Source Libraries and Frameworks in Java Applications.
  • Continued the research and writing needed to complete and defend the dissertation.

Co-Founder

CodeShield GmbH

  • Co-founded a security startup focused on translating program-analysis research into practical software-security tooling for cloud applications on AWS.
  • Worked at the intersection of research, product development, software architecture, and customer needs.
  • Helped shape the technical direction and transfer research prototypes toward production-oriented use cases.
  • Contributed expertise in static analysis, secure software engineering, and open-source dependency security.

Research Associate

Paderborn University

  • Conducted research on static program analysis and secure integration of open-source libraries and frameworks in Java applications.
  • Developed and evaluated approaches for dependency analysis, compatibility assessment, and security-aware library updates.
  • Contributed to research prototypes and open-source projects including Soot, SootDiff, UpCy, and ModGuard.
  • Published and presented research in the international software-engineering community.

Security Research Intern

SAP Labs France

Contributed to the open-source dependency scanner Eclipse Steady by adding support for Soot-based analysis and working on its Maven plugin.

Studentischer Mitarbeiter

Fraunhofer IEM

Education

PhD Computer Science

Paderborn University

Thesis on Secure Integration of Open-Source Libraries and Frameworks in Java Applications. Supervised by Prof. Dr. Eric Bodden and Prof. Dr. Ben Hermann.

MS Computer Science

Paderborn University

BS Computer Science

Paderborn University & FU Berlin

Academic Service

Conference Service

Journal Reviewing

  • Reviewer, IEEE Software — 2024
  • Reviewer, ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM) — 2021–2023