About me

I'm Max, an AI engineer in Augsburg, Germany. I build LLM systems that have to hold up in production — my focus is retrieval-augmented generation: language models that answer from real sources, reliably, for real users.

The project I'm currently working on is AIS.chat, an open-source AI assistant for education, commissioned by Germany's federal and state governments. Because it's open source, everything I contributed is public — the CV page links to it inline.

I started programming at thirteen, trained as a Fachinformatiker (the German apprenticeship route), then studied computer science in Augsburg and wrote my thesis on RAG. I've been working in software since 2017 — every year of it paid, from the apprenticeship through part-time work during my studies to my current role at XITASO.