AI Principal · Speaker · Founder · PhD · Freiburg
Dr. Pascal
Giessler
Helping Germany's CTOs, engineering leaders, and visionaries move from AI experimentation to production confidence. Principal at Haufe Akademie, external lecturer at KIT Karlsruhe, founder, speaker, and strategic advisor. I write for the leaders who are deciding what gets built, not what gets buzzworded.
What I work on
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AI-Native Engineering
Context engineering, evals, LLM routing, local inference, and RAG architecture. Building systems that treat AI as a first-class concern, not an integration bolted on after the fact.
High-risk, frontier AI initiatives at Haufe Akademie
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Cloud Architecture
Cloud-native platforms on AWS and Azure. Distributed systems, DevSecOps, infrastructure-as-code, and SRE practices built for enterprise scale and long-term operability.
Azure Solutions Architect Expert · AWS · 10+ enterprise deployments
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Technical Leadership
AI strategy, governance, ROI framing, and the architecture decisions that separate production-grade systems from well-funded prototypes. For leaders who think at system scale.
9 years leading engineering teams as CTO
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Research & Publications
Doctoral research at KIT Karlsruhe's WASA group on software architecture. Weekly writing on AI engineering for practitioners who want depth, not summaries.
8+ years doctoral research · weekly newsletter
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Strategic Advisory
Advising management boards across company sizes on AI opportunity, north star definition, and the gap between vision and executable strategy. I understand the business, the process, and the domain: not just the technology.
Advisor to management boards · enterprise & mid-market
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Founder & Company Building
Founded and led Fabricks, building Smart Factory components for warehouse logistics and supply chain digitalization. Grew from engineer to CTO at a DACH engineering services consultancy over nine years across more than a dozen industries.
Founder & CEO · Fabricks · 9 yrs CTO at DACH consultancy
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Venture Building
Taking ideas from zero to product and spinning them out as independent businesses. I help companies identify internal opportunities, validate concepts, build the product, and structure the venture for independence, or acquisition.
Ideas to reality · structured for independence
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Keynote Speaking
Speaking at conferences, corporate events, and leadership offsites on AI strategy and engineering. Making complex architectural decisions legible to both technical teams and executive audiences.
Speaker · Industry Fellow · 42 Wolfsburg
Currently focused on
"Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better."
Samuel Beckett, Worstward Ho (1983)
Building now
ContentNexus
Intelligence aggregation for knowledge workers. Tracks the researchers, analysts, and operators shaping your field, then writes a five-minute morning briefing. Ranked by signal, not by noise. Open source, self-hosted, no API keys.
Launching soon · details to followPublished writing
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Principal Stack
Weekly for senior engineers and technical leaders navigating AI at scale. Production decisions, architecture tradeoffs, and the judgment calls textbooks don't cover.
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Medium · Articles
Medium
Long-form articles on AI engineering, cloud architecture patterns, and technology leadership for senior engineers and those who manage them.
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