Services
I work with engineering teams that want to release faster and with more confidence. Most engagements sit in one of four shapes — but the goal is always the same: less guesswork in production, more trust in the release process.
Feature flagging workshops
Hands-on sessions for engineering teams who are either starting with feature flags or trying to get out from under the ones they already have. We cover the patterns that hold up in production, the failure modes that don’t, observability for flag evaluation, and how to roll out OpenFeature without a rip-and-replace.
Who it’s for: teams who’ve outgrown ad-hoc toggles and want a flagging strategy they can actually trust on a Friday afternoon.
Developer experience advisory
Fractional, ongoing input on the parts of the engineering org that determine whether your release cycle is a strength or a tax — tooling, testing, CI/CD, build systems, code quality, internal platforms. I’ve spent most of my career in this work, and the goal is to make it boring in the best possible way.
Who it’s for: platform, DevEx, and tooling teams who want a senior outside perspective without committing to another full-time hire.
Implementation consulting
OpenFeature, end-to-end, from a maintainer’s perspective. Hands-on rollout work: integrating OpenFeature into your stack, wiring it into OpenTelemetry for SRE-grade observability, building the internal tooling around evaluation and audit, and unblocking edge cases by going to the source. As one of the project’s maintainers I can shape the spec where it needs to bend — and help the in-house team carry the work forward after I’m gone.
Who it’s for: teams adopting OpenFeature without in-house insider context, and anyone hitting the edges where the spec meets reality.
Speaking — talks & keynotes
Conference sessions, keynotes, and in-house talks on feature flagging, observability, developer experience, open standards, and where engineering work is moving in the age of agents. I speak as a CNCF Ambassador and OpenFeature maintainer, which means the material comes from inside the projects — and from having had to make it work in production first. English or German, solo or co-delivered.
Recent stages include KubeCon, Devoxx, ContainerDays, JNation, Cloudland, and JavaCro. Community conferences and meetups are usually travel-only; corporate events and internal sessions are paid engagements.
Who it’s for: conference organizers looking for a session that isn’t a vendor pitch, and engineering orgs who want an outside voice to open an internal event or a company-wide session.
Upcoming dates, topics, and formats →
How to get in touch
Send a short note — what you’re trying to build, where it’s stuck, and roughly when. I’ll come back honestly about whether I can help.