My Work

I love building things — from shipping products and leading engineering teams, to animating short films and creating tools for creatives. Here's a collection of the work I'm most proud of.

Projects

Things I'm building.

ZenMemo

ZenMemo

2024 - present
ZenMemo

ZenMemo

2024 - present

A whole operating system for your life. I built ZenMemo because I was tired of juggling scattered notes, to-do apps, and journaling tools. With AI-powered audio journaling, it captures your thoughts naturally, organizes tasks, surfaces insights, and helps you take back control over your day.

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AI
SaaS
Doodely

Doodely

2025
Doodely

Doodely

2025

The easiest way to animate handwriting. After years of painstakingly animating handwritten text frame-by-frame in After Effects, I built the tool I always wanted. Just draw, and Doodely records and plays back your strokes as smooth animations. Export as PNG sequence or video.

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Creative
FinLogos

FinLogos

2026
FinLogos

FinLogos

2026

Advanced financial intelligence tools have long been locked behind institutional walls, available to hedge funds, but not to everyday investors. FinLogos democratizes this by bringing AI-powered research, hypothesis tracking, and portfolio analysis to individual investors. Research smarter, validate your predictions with data, and discover hidden opportunities.

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AI
SaaS
OMGBrush

OMGBrush

2023 - present
OMGBrush

OMGBrush

2023 - present

Professional 3D tools on iPad exist, but they lack the simplicity and immediacy that makes drawing on iPad so appealing. OMGBrush brings 3D drawing to the iPad with a handmade aesthetic, fun, explorative, and expressive like a traditional art tool. Simple to pick up, yet powerful. Inspired by Blender’s GreasePencil and QuillVR.

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Creative
3D
ZenTest

ZenTest

2025
ZenTest

ZenTest

2025

E2E tests are always flaky. They break, get ignored, and nobody wants to maintain them. ZenTest solves this by completely decoupling end-to-end testing from your app. Tests are written in plain English, so even non-technical people can create them. An agentic AI tester drives the browser like a human, clicking buttons, typing, reacting to what it sees. Tests are self-healing, so they don’t break when your UI changes.

view on GitHub

AI
Dev Tools
Open Source
MeepleOS

MeepleOS

2025
MeepleOS

MeepleOS

2025

Performance reviews are often unstructured and not that helpful. MeepleOS addresses this by evaluating people across multiple dimensions, because nobody is just awesome or terrible. People excel in certain areas and struggle in others. MeepleOS tells them where they shine and where they can improve, gamifying the process to make it more engaging and actionable.

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AI
SaaS

Curriculum Vitae

Where I worked and my impact there.

Deed

Senior Engineering Team Lead
2023-11 - 2025-06

Leading the Customer Experience Team responsible for the Web and Mobile Apps.

Notable Achievements
Championed and introduced AI coding tools. Brought usage from <10% to 100% of the engineering team.
💰
Helped the biggest client WALMART to move 10x more money through a critical donation pipeline.
Built and maintained business critical Nonprofit Search Engine and improved its search speed from 10+ seconds to 1 second.
🚀
Decreased time to release from 2 hours to <30minutes.
👥
Highest team satisfaction in the company—through empathetic leadership and clear communication.

Freelance

Digital Animation Producer
2020-11 - 2023-10

Handled complete creative and production process for animated projects and managed high-value client relationships.

Notable Achievements
📋
Managed tasks, schedules, and client expectations for 5-figure video/motion design projects
🎨
Worked on projects using 2D, 3D, VR, AI animation tools
🚀
Developed and launched multiple digital products and tools utilizing AI

Forto

Freelance Senior Product Designer
2021-05 - 2021-11

Onboarding and supporting VP design in building up design leadership within the company.

Notable Achievements
🎯
Setting the vision and creating designs for the new Smart Task Management System 2.0
🔄
Consolidating internal booking process (Pre-, Main-, and On-Carriage) into a single system, to improve OPS efficiency via better UX

Forto

Founding Engineer > Engineering Team Lead > UX Lead
2016-05 - 2020-10

Responsible for developing, designing, and launching the Forto platform from ground up, then leading engineering teams and UX initiatives.

Notable Achievements
🦄
0 to 1 product development and growth into a unicorn startup.
🏗️
Responsible for building and maintaining many core services and features—architecture, performance, design, and development.
📦
My Real-time Task Management System elevated a single Ops Manager to handle over 200 shipments in parallel (from initially being able to handle 10-30 shipments at a time)
🌱
The people I hired and managed grew from juniors into top performers and remained with the company longer than the typical employee tenure.

Oximity GmbH

Front-End Engineer
2014-05 - 2016-03

Implementing front-end features for a crowd-sourced news platform with over 1,000,000 users.

Notable Achievements
Ensuring flawless operation with nearly 100% end-to-end test coverage
🛠️
Built admin interfaces to manage writers, publications, and content
✍️
Involved in multiple critical features like a custom-built WYSIWYG editor, landing page redesign, profile page, and more

Fraunhofer FOKUS

Full-Stack Engineer (Working Student)
2010-12 - 2014-04

Created UX/UI prototypes and applications for cutting-edge video conferencing systems in the browser.

Notable Achievements
📹
Built a WebRTC-based video conferencing system in the browser—imagine Zoom in the browser in 2012
💻
Worked with Next Generation Networks (3G, 4G), programmed Java and C/C++

Motion Design Work

I'm still proud of my time as an animator and motion designer, so here's a selection of work I did during that time.

Animation and Motion Design Work

30DayAnimator Course

30DayAnimator Course

2023
30DayAnimator Course

30DayAnimator Course

2023

I created this animation course to teach animation to people in a new and simple way.

  • 1 step at a time.
  • 1 exercise daily, to be completed in 1 hour or less!
  • Every day a new and important concept in animation.

This way of learning is meant to motivate people to stay and complete the course, without being overwhelmed by the amount of complexity that animation initially brings.

At the same time, one has always a completed little animation that one can be proud of every single day.

30dayanimator.com

2D
Motion Design
Product
Reincarnation Mall

Reincarnation Mall

2023 Jan-Feb
Reincarnation Mall

Reincarnation Mall

2023 Jan-Feb

I had the exciting opportunity to animate a 30-second scene for the short film of LAVAMACHINE, a studio I deeply admire for their creative output in the VR animation space.

The animation was officially produced by META to promote their VR headset brand and its capabilities.

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3D
VR
Paradime.io - Brand Video

Paradime.io - Brand Video

2022 Oct-Nov
Paradime.io - Brand Video

Paradime.io - Brand Video

2022 Oct-Nov

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Paradime is a data and analytics platform. They approached me for their upcoming ProductHunt launch to produce a video to explain the problem their platform is solving. It’s a dramatic and cheeky video explaining the everyday struggles of people working with an increasingly complex data analytics tech stack.

For this project I coordinated the entire production, from the first ideations to the final delivery of the finished project. First we created visual ideas in a brainstorming session, which then were turned into thumbnail sketches and then arranged into a storyboard. Then a rough animatic was created based on the storyboard and when that was approved I went on to create the final animation, hired a voice artist, and did the final sound design and mixing.

The project had a pretty tight schedule and was completed in only 6 weeks from start to finish. A great achievement considering the complexity of many of the scenes in the animation!

I wrote about the creation of one of the most complex scenes here:
How I Made This Complex Animation (Medium Article)

2D
Motion Design
Sound Design
Pumping Iron

Pumping Iron

2022 August
Pumping Iron

Pumping Iron

2022 August

A short animation created with the VR software Quill and rendered in Blender. The project was a proof of concept to test the entire rendering pipeline of an animation from Quill to Blender and figure out stumbling blocks before attempting even bigger animations.

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3D
VR
Sound Design
Levity Product Trailer

Levity Product Trailer

2022 March
Levity Product Trailer

Levity Product Trailer

2022 March

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An animation introducing the Levity AI platform in an exciting way. This project was animated from the earliest storyboard to the final delivery of the trailer.

Combined 2D and 3D motion design with hand-painted frame-by-frame animation techniques were used to create an exciting and fast-paced tour through the platforms main features.

2D
3D
Motion Design
Sound Design
Xocolatl Illustrations

Xocolatl Illustrations

2022 February
Xocolatl Illustrations

Xocolatl Illustrations

2022 February

A series of illustrations of ancient American civilizations. The warrior, the citizen and the shaman. Created for the Xocolatl Web3 project as three different tiers to contribute to the project.

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illustration
Quill VR Shorts

Quill VR Shorts

2021 - 2022
Quill VR Shorts

Quill VR Shorts

2021 - 2022

Exploring the new medium and creative possibilities of animating in VR.

view showreel

3D
VR
Fly Asleep - Concept Ad

Fly Asleep - Concept Ad

2021 December
Fly Asleep - Concept Ad

Fly Asleep - Concept Ad

2021 December

In this project I wanted to challenge myself to create a “satisfying” animation with Blender with the use of physics, slow motion and different material settings.

I came up with this simple concept ad for pillows. That are so comfy that you would “Fly Asleep” instead of just falling. I did not only the animation, but also the sound design and music for it.

view video

3D
Motion Design
Sound Design
AE Plugins & Presets

AE Plugins & Presets

2020 - 2022
AE Plugins & Presets

AE Plugins & Presets

2020 - 2022

Working with After Effects has many inefficiencies. It’s a great tool, but not perfect. Tackling these problems I started creating plugins and presets and selling them on my store. For marketing purposes I produced multiple trailers and advertised on various channels.

Examples include:
EasyLoop, a plugin that allows looping with the click of a single button.
VHS IT, a plugin to recreate a VHS look on your footage.
Handcrafted Look, a preset that makes your footage look hand-animated.

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2D
Motion Design
Product
Futurepark 2050

Futurepark 2050

2021 July
Futurepark 2050

Futurepark 2050

2021 July

For The Future Game 2050 I animated an illustration (by Johannes Fuchs) of a futuristic park.

We were using web technologies like SVG and Lottie to bring the animation to life. With my tech expertise in Web Development I was consulting on the best solutions to implement the animation in an efficient manner.

2D
Motion Design
UI/UX
Serene Scenes SVGs

Serene Scenes SVGs

2021 June
Serene Scenes SVGs

Serene Scenes SVGs

2021 June

To learn to create beautiful background illustrations and vector graphics I started a project to draw daily landscape sceneries.

What came out was not only a set of beautiful illustrations, but also a illustration library product for others to buy and use.

link to project

illustration
Product
Afilio Hero Animation

Afilio Hero Animation

2021 February
Afilio Hero Animation

Afilio Hero Animation

2021 February

Afilio’s website has nice illustrations, but it felt a little bit static. To get people even more engaged with the topic of insurances, we decided to collaborate to create an animated hero video to play in the background and replace the hero illustration.

The challenge was to create something that is not too distracting and would overtake the entire design, but it should still allow you to linger on the animation and see the subtle story unfold. The story being a lifetime in timelapse of a woman from college to retirement.

see it in action

2D
Motion Design
The Last Today

The Last Today

2021
The Last Today

The Last Today

2021

Animation of a 30-second car crash scene for the short film The Last Today. Mixing of 3D elements into a completely frame-by-frame animated scene.

Complete creative control over the execution of the scene

view making of

2D
3D
Motion Design
PseudoRa Video Loops

PseudoRa Video Loops

2020 - 2021
PseudoRa Video Loops

PseudoRa Video Loops

2020 - 2021

I was commissioned to create two animation loops of backgrounds matching the vibe of the music of up and coming Jazz & Rap artist PseudoRa. What came out are two great pieces that capture a great nostalgic mood in modern times.

view PseudoRa - Berlin
view PseudoRa - Miami

2D
Motion Design
FortoX - Explainer

FortoX - Explainer

2020
FortoX - Explainer

FortoX - Explainer

2020

Assisting with animation and asset creation for the FortoX explainer video.

watch FortoX - Explainer Video

illustration
Motion Design
Forto - Customer Journey

Forto - Customer Journey

2020
Forto - Customer Journey

Forto - Customer Journey

2020

Illustrating a customer journey for a new product of Forto, involving 8 different steps in the journey with each having its own illustration.

illustration
UI/UX
Moebius Inspired Short

Moebius Inspired Short

2019 Oct
Moebius Inspired Short

Moebius Inspired Short

2019 Oct

A private commission to create an animation inspired by a Moebius-style illustration.

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2D
Sound Design
100 Days of Walk Cycles

100 Days of Walk Cycles

2016 March
100 Days of Walk Cycles

100 Days of Walk Cycles

2016 March

To accelerate my learning of animation I decided to challenge myself to create 100 different walk cycles on 100 consecutive days.

From that experience came also a first short film that compiled all the cycles into a single video. I wrote an article about my experience of attempting the challenge and overnight it became an instant internet success and gathered over 50,000 views.

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read full story

2D
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