About Raphael
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German
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English
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French
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Experience
- aedgeArchitect | Product Engineer | Fractional CTOOctober 2023 - Today (2 years and 8 months)Vienna, AustriaProduct Excellence with an "aedge" - architecture, design and implementation. Bootstrapping and supporting product teams from inception to scaling.Product Engineering Highlights:
- Helped a client to invalidate a product idea
- Skilled up a team of junior developers to start their Product Engineering journey
- Validated a performance improvement hypothesis. Based upon the results, iteratively designed and implemented a reactive system and integrated 7 external services. (Stack: GCP, GKE, Terraform, Java, Spring Boot, Postgres, Angular)
- EYManager | Digital & Emerging TechnologiesOctober 2020 - September 2023 (3 years)Vienna, Austria(In)validated, architected and implemented products with clients in Automotive, Banking/Financial Services and Logistics.After serving as Tech Lead at EY's Global Blockchain Team (Hybrid US/AT), transitioned back into the regional organization (AT) to lead the Digital & Emerging Technologies Team, comprised of 7 extraordinary individuals.Highlights:
- Designed and lead the implementation (boots on ground) of a cloud native, reactive loyalty sytem, based upon continious user and market feedback. As of 2025 the system is in process of being spun out into a dedicated company. (Tech Stack: GCP, GKE, Terraform, Node.js, TypeScript, Nest.js, Angular, Rust, k6)
- Requirements engineering, asset analysis and preliminary architecture of a product platform to increase initiative throughput (Tech Stack: Terraform, Go, AWS)
- Untangled a monolith into a modulith with auxiliary services and built a prototype of a ZKP based permission system with a team of researchers. (Tech Stack: Azure, AKS, Kafka, Node.js, TypeScript, React, Solidity)
- EYSenior Consultant | Blockchain Competence CenterFebruary 2018 - September 2020 (2 years and 8 months)Vienna, AustriaIdeated, (in)validated and implemented products with clients in Real Estate, Banking/Financial Services and Logistics.Highlights:
- Prepared and hosted multiple Design Thinking Workshops, which generated a funnel of more than 100 use cases in different sectors and lead to the formation of one permanent business unit (Banking - still active as of 2025) and the development of 3 digital products (Real estate and Logistics - one still active as of 2025)
- Member and Co-Host of the CBA Lab Blockchain Working Group (GER).
- Participated in the design and implementation of numerous MVPs (Tech Stack: Python, TypeScript, Docker Swarm, Azure)
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Education
- WirtschaftsrechtWU (Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien)2016Wirtschaftsrecht