I quickly understand what really matters – and move complex systems forward from week one.
For more than 15 years I have been designing, building and operating demanding software and AI solutions – from the first architecture draft to stable production operation. I combine business understanding with technical depth, which lets me get up to speed quickly even in grown systems. That this often turns into long-term collaboration is the best proof of quality I can offer.
Porsche
Lidl
KUKA
Agilent Technologies
GC Gruppe
Maico
Roca
Condor
EnBWThree projects from recent years.
Each with problem, approach and outcome. I'll tell you more about NDA projects in person.
Multi-tenant AI chatbot platform
Dozens of similar websites each needed their own support chatbot. Impossible to scale by hand.
Design and development of a multi-tenant platform that automatically generates knowledge base, system prompt and chatbot configuration from a client's website.
New tenants are provisioned in minutes instead of a working day. The bots run unattended in daily business.
ML system for data-driven analytics
Important data was scattered across several systems; there were no reliable analytics.
Built the data pipelines and an ML model with proper validation, deployed and operated like any other software. Design to operations end to end.
Automated reports and metrics the team trusts. Most of the manual analysis work is gone.
Cloud-native migration to Kubernetes
A grown monolith with manual deploys and unstable operations slowed down every change.
Containerization, migration to a Kubernetes cluster, automated CI/CD pipelines and monitoring built from the ground up. Architecture and implementation under my responsibility.
Deployments take minutes instead of hours and are reproducible. Outages have become rare.
More projects and details on request.
Four things I'm good at.
The short version. I'd rather go into detail on a concrete project.
AI & ML in production
GenAI in production: chatbots with their own knowledge base, RAG setups with vector databases (Qdrant), AI agents, prompt engineering and ML pipelines. Most of it runs in clients' daily business today, not on slides.
Architecture & system design
System boundaries, technology decisions, data flows. I'll also tell you when the simple solution is enough.
Full-stack development
React and TypeScript up front, Node, Java or Python behind it, PostgreSQL or MongoDB underneath. And no fear of other people's code.
Cloud-native, DevOps & operations
I've been running my own Kubernetes clusters for years, on Hetzner among others, and work with Azure and AWS on client projects. CI/CD, monitoring and backups are part of the project.
Who I am.
I'm Thoren. Studied software engineering, started out in the days of Java and C#. Since then I've built frontends, backends and data platforms, and I've been running production cloud infrastructure for years.
AI is not an isolated discipline to me. Because I know applications, data and infrastructure, I don't just prototype AI features. I integrate them into existing systems and run them reliably. My own day-to-day work is AI-assisted too.
I like both sides of the job: working out with the business side what's actually needed, then sitting in the code myself until it runs.
And when I think something is a bad idea, I say so. That saves time and money on both sides.
What I write about.
On Medium I publish guides from the engine room: n8n, Kubernetes, Superset, scraping. I set everything up myself before I write about it.
How to install this Free Open Source Zapier-Clone Solution with 42k stars on GitHub — n8n
Read on Medium → June 2024Why Streamlining B2B Workflows with Apache NiFi is Fantastic — And Why We Still Switched
Read on Medium → June 2024Robot Automation: Run any Git Repository as a Robot in Kubernetes with an easy Configuration UI —…
Read on Medium → June 2024Stabilise your Web-Scraper for a 100% Success-Rate with this Cool Tool — n8n.io
Read on Medium → May 2024Query Data from MongoDB in Apache Superset with the Help of Apache Drill. (Full Tutorial)
Read on Medium → May 2024This Open Source Dashboard Solution With 59k Stars on GitHub astonished me — Apache Superset
Read on Medium → May 2024Upgrade your super low price kubernetes cluster in hetzner in some easy steps
Read on Medium → May 2024Added a free VPN to my Selenium Scraper Docker Container.
Read on Medium →All articles on Medium →
Wind, water, family.
Family man, happiest wherever there's wind and water. Kitesurfing has been my balance for years.
I organize my projects remotely and reliably, independent of location.
Got a project in mind? Write me.
Email is fastest. I usually reply within a day, even if the answer happens to be that I'm not the right fit.
thoren@hellothoren.com