Adrian Sieber
Developer and Entrepreneur
Work
Full Stack Engineer
2024-11-25 – 2026-03-01
Extension and maintenance of a large-scale conference management platform, delivering full-stack features and improving platform infrastructure.
Founding Engineer
2024-06-01 – 2024-11-01
One of the two lead engineers building Zeit AI's core platform.
- Development of an agentic data analysis system based on SQL
- Building AI-powered data exploration and analysis tools
Cofounder and CEO
2020-07-01 – 2024-06-01
Feram is a software agency specialized in full-stack web development and the implementation of cloud infrastructure.
- Development of a legal case management platform with thousands of users per day
- Development and operation of Airsequel
External Consultant
2017-05-30 – 2021-03-01
Participating in consulting workshops as an external expert for digitization, digitally driven business models, and blockchain technologies.
- Co-inventor of the smart cargo securing device "iGurt"
- Trailer Innovation prize 2019 for the iGurt
CTO
2019-07-01 – 2020-06-30
Qthority simplifies receiving legal advice by streamlining the data flow during casework.
- Leading the technical design and managing the IT department
- Rebuilding the IT infrastructure with microservices on Kubernetes
- Migration from Zoho CRM and Microsoft Dynamics to Salesforce
- Migration from a Windows Server based computing environment to Google Cloud
Cofounder and CEO
2016-04 – 2019-06-30
Online service which automatically found bugs in code and proposed fixes for them.
- Winner of (HPI Business Plan Competition 2016, GrĂĽnderszene Article)
- High-performance through parallelization by using around 30 microservices running on Docker Swarm
Developer and Designer
Freelancer
2011-01-01 – 2020-07
Conception, Implementation, and maintenance of several websites for small businesses.
Student Researcher
Hasso Plattner Institut - Human Computer Interaction Department
2015-10-01 – 2016-03-01
Working on a spin-off in the field of personal fabrication (3D-printing / laser cutting) based on my bachelor's project brickify.it. Ideas and concepts were later used to build kyub.com.
Student Researcher
Hasso Plattner Institut - Internet Technologies & Systems Department
2012-11-01 – 2014-02-01
BlogIntelligence was a social media analysis platform backed by a 6 Terabyte HANA in-memory database. My responsibility was to design & develop the frontend and the Node.js backend infrastructure to be able to address and visualize the data crawled into the HANA database. hpi.de/meinel/knowledge-tech/social-media/blog-intelligence
- Switch from Django to Node.js
- Reimplementation of frontend
- Development of various visualizations with D3.js
Cofounder, shared CEO & CTO
2010-05-31 – 2012-10-01
Developed initial version of Chuisy, a shopping companion app. Was one of three founders.
- Winner of Wayra Startup Competition
- Construction of a PHP and MySQL based web platform
Education
IT-Systems Engineering
Hasso Plattner Institut
2017-10-01 – 2019-07-01
Master
- Management Essentials
- IT Entrepreneurship
- Web-based Development Environments
- Polyglot Programming
IT-Systems Engineering
Hasso Plattner Institut
2012-10-01 – 2015-10-01
Bachelor
- Bachelor's Project: Personal Fabrication Devices
- Human Computer Interaction 1 & 2
- Database Systems 1
- Theoretical Computer Science 1 & 2
- Economy Basics 1 & 2
- Computer Graphics 1
- Design Thinking Introduction
- Math 1 & 2
- English 2
- Basics of Digital Systems
- Internet Technologies
- Modeling 1 & 2
- Operating Systems 1
- Project Management Seminar
- Programming 1 & 2
- Law for Engineers 1 & 2
- Software Architecture
- Software Engineering
High school with Focus on Science
Gymnasium Lindenberg
2002-09-01 – 2011-05-01
High school level
- Advanced Physics
- Advanced Math
- Intermediate English
- Intermediate Ethics
Awards
Winner of HPI Business Plan Competition
2016-09-14
Hasso Plattner Institute
Winner of Wayra Startup Competition
2012-08-24
Telefonica
DPG book award for outstanding achievements in physics
2011-07-01
Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft (German Physics Society)
Art award for outstanding musical achievements
2011-05-02
Förderkreis Gymnasium Lindenberg e.V. (Gymnasium Lindenberg promotion society)
3rd place in the first round of the Bundeswettbewerb Mathematik 2010 (Federal math competition)
2010-06-09
Federal Ministry of Education and Research
Skills
Web Development
Master
- Elm
- PureScript
- TypeScript
- JavaScript
- HTML
- CSS
- Tailwind CSS
- SVG
Backend Development
Master
- Node.js / Deno / Bun
- Haskell
- SQLite
- MongoDB
- Firebase
DevOps
Master
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- AWS
- Google Cloud
- Continuous Integration & Deployment
3D Modeling and Fabrication
Intermediate
- OpenSCAD
- 3D printing
- Inkscape
- Laser cutting
UI & UX Design
Intermediate
- Affinity Designer & Photo
- Inkscape
- Gimp
- Figma
Languages
| German | Native speaker |
| English | Fluent |
| Spanish | Beginner |
| Latin | Advanced proficiency certificate |
Interests
Sailing
Skiing
Music production