Relevant Experience

Tech Workers Coalition

New York City / Berlin

Co-founder and organizer
October 2018 – Present

  • Lead communication efforts (press, newsletter, social) for our 7,000 members;

  • Co-organized recurring “Circuit Breakers” conferences in NYC and SF;

  • Keynoted three labor law conferences for newly elected Works Council members from 40 different tech companies in Germany;

ShareNow / Free2move (Stellantis automotive subsidiary)

Berlin

Substitute Member, Stellantis European Works Council
November 2024 – Present

  • Represent 300,000 employees across 12 European countries;

  • Engage in dialogue over competing visions regarding industrial transformation in the automotive sector, specifically electrification, digitization and restructuring efforts

Central Works Council Chair
Aug 2022 – Present

  • Supervise 14 elected employee representatives across 7 German cities;

  • Negotiated labor relations between management and employees, resulting in legally binding Works Agreements covering restructurings, employee monitoring compliance, AI deployment, profit-sharing, compensation adjustments, work-life balance, and protections for vulnerable employees;

Software Engineer
Aug 2019 – 2022

  • Led an AI working group to proactively mitigate algorithmic bias from our services including geographic-based pricing and customer risk-scoring models

  • Enabled customers to perform credit card transactions with Stripe and PayPal payment processors via RabbitMQ messaging architecture

DaWanda

Berlin

Backend Software Engineer
Feb 2017 – Aug 2018

  • Fostered knowledge and technical documentation as an editor for the company blog;

  • Improved search personalization for customers with Solr based recommendation engine, using analytics from Snowplow and Google Analytics;

DemocracyWorks / TurboVote

New York City

Data Fellow
Sep–Nov 2014

  • Enriched voting information data used in Google Civic Information API to empower individuals and institutions to exercise their voting rights;

  • Improved productivity by scripting Optical Character Recognition of non-machine readable PDF documents and validating unformatted address data;

Education

University of Kassel / Berlin School of Economics

MA Labour Policies and Globalisation
Oct 2020 — Sept 2021 Kassel / Berlin, Germany

Public engagements

Public speaking

Personal Interests

  • ⛰️ Bouldering

  • 🗺 Collecting beautiful maps

  • Σ Publishing math articles

  • ✈️ Travelling and widening my horizon

Mentoring

  • 👨‍🏫 Tutor at Rails Girls and Codebar

  • 🤝 Supervise intern research projects from Global Labour University