Solution Architect

with a Passion for Design

and Quality

Robert Rieser

ABOUT

Hello! I’m Robert

I grew up in Frankfurt am Main, where, from a young age, I've always had a passion for being creative and solving intricate problems. Over the last decade, I've worked across software engineering, cloud, data architecture and AI in a variety of sectors.

I enjoy bringing clarity to complex problems with a people-first approach.

core skills

Design

  • UI & UX
  • Wireframe
  • Figma

Software
Development

  • Java 17
  • Spring Boot
  • Web Services
  • RabbitMQ
  • NoSQL
  • CI/CD
  • GraphQl
  • Terraform
  • Cucumber

Web
Development

  • Javascript ES9
  • Typescript
  • Tailwind
  • Vue
  • Nuxt

AI & Data

  • LLM
  • Databricks
  • RAG

Cloud

  • AWS
  • Microsoft Azure

Professional

Experience

Vereinsverbinder Self-employed · Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Jun 2026 - present
Founder & Architect

Building Vereinsverbinder, a SaaS platform for amateur and youth sports clubs to host tournaments and find friendly matches — online registrations, automatic scheduling, live standings and opponent matching, all in one place. I designed and built the product end to end on my own: concept, UX, frontend, backend, architecture and deployment.

Skills:Product Strategy · UX/UI Design · Nuxt · Vue · TypeScript · Tailwind · Architecture · Deployment

Mercedes-Benz AG Full-time · Stuttgart, Germany
Nov 2025 - present
Data Architect

Enabling data-driven innovation at Mercedes-Benz by architecting scalable, governed data solutions. Supporting cross-functional teams to derive insights from car usage data that drive strategic decisions and guide digital product development.

Skills:Microsoft Azure · Databricks · Azure Data Lake · Azure Data Factory · Power BI · CI/CD

Jan 2023 - Nov 2025
Senior Cloud Engineer

Developing and optimizing cloud-based marketing products for the Mercedes-Benz /developers platform, improving performance, reducing costs, and enhancing API usability through close collaboration with global teams.

Skills:Microsoft Azure · Terraform · OpenAPI · Cucumber · Java · Spring Boot

Sep 2023 - Jun 2024
Product Owner

Advancing Mercedes-Benz's Data Dashboard — leading its strategic development as Product Owner in close collaboration with external partners and key stakeholders, driving innovation while ensuring quality, cost efficiency, compliance, and on-time delivery.

Skills:Business Development · Project Management · Communication

pur:dental Freelance · Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Mar 2024 - Apr 2025
Solution Architect and Engineer

Build a web app for pur:dental, a clinic specializing in dental care for the elderly across outpatient and residential settings. It supports dentists in documenting patient visits and producing a complete assessment based on the DNQP expert standard. I handled the project end to end — wireframing, frontend, backend, architecture, and deployment — and designed it to sync with MedifoxDan.

Skills:Wireframing · Nuxt · Vue · Java · Spring Boot · DigitalOcean

Cognizant Germany
Jun 2022 - Nov 2022
IT Consultant Cologne, Germany

Development of a quoting- and consulting application for the sale of insurance products to corporate customers based upon microservice architecture for a client in the insurance sector.

Aim of the project was to build a product that maps the complete digital sales process, including underwriting.

Skills:Java · Spring · TypeScript · Bitbucket

Jan 2021 - Jun 2022
IT Consultant Bonn, Germany

Back end development of an Enterprise Networks - E2E solution based upon microservice architecture for a client in the telecommunication industry.

This increased business efficiency by reducing workload for operations and providing higher information content.

Skills:Java · Spring · MongoDB · RabbitMQ

Lufthansa via usd AG Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Nov 2017 - Dec 2019
Software Engineer

Significantly responsible for implementing Lufthansa's Flight and Ground Operation application landscape into the state-of-the-art monitoring application, as well as developing initiative monitoring solutions.

This resulted in the substantial obviation of downtimes and major outages of mission-critical business processes.

Skills:JavaScript · React.js · D3.js · Node.js · Neo4j

Intelligent Data Analytics GmbH & Co. KG Frankfurt am Main, Germany
May 2017 - Oct 2017
Software Developer

Front- and back-end development of a data mining solution, based on complex event processing.

This led to a production volume increase of more than 20%, as well as an elimination of previous occurring production fluctuations for a client in the chemical industry.

Skills:Java · Spring · InfluxDB · Grafana · HTML · CSS

Lufthansa Systems Kelsterbach, Germany
Nov 2015 - Mar 2016
Software Developer Intern

Conception, design and development of an advanced monitoring solution prototype to monitor processes and virtual hosts.

This allowed for a better understanding of the current applications landscape, as well as facilitated the migration to a new graph configuration management database.

Skills:JavaScript · Java · D3.js · Neo4j · MariaDB

Sanofi via Univativ Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Sep 2012 - Dec 2012
Working Student

Simulation of an algorithmic program flowchart using real and fictional patient information for the testing of a blood glucose monitoring system prototype.

Skills:Microsoft Excel · Problem solving

Logica Sulzbach, Germany
Aug 2008 - Jul 2009
Software Developer Intern

Conception, design and development of an application for media management with VBA and Microsoft Access 2007.

Skills:Microsoft Access 2007 · VBA

Education

Mar 2011 - Mar 2017
Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences Bachelor of Engineering in Engineering Informatics (B.Eng.)

Bachelor Thesis: Evaluation of a service registry for microservices in Lufthansa System's Docker container environment (Grade: 1.0)

Clients

Sanofi
Lufthansa
Telekom
Zurich
Mercedes-Benz

Projects

Vereinsverbinder

Featured Project

Vereinsverbinder - Tournament & Match Platform for Sports Clubs

A SaaS platform for amateur and youth sports clubs to host tournaments and find friendly matches — online registrations, automatic scheduling, live standings and opponent matching, all in one place. Designed and built end to end, from concept and UX to frontend, backend, architecture and deployment.

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FlowGraph

Featured Project

Flow-Graph - Supply Chain Cost Estimation

Flow graph using VueJS. Provides an easy-to-use editor together with the ability to create custom nodes and make calculations based on excel and mathematical formulas.

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ForceLayout

Featured Project

Force-Graph - Data Visualization

Force-directed graph implementation using D3.js which enables the data visualization of configuration management databases.

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Certifications

  • Microsoft Azure Certified Data Fundamentals

    Microsoft Azure · Jan 2023

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  • Spring Certified Professional

    VMware · May 2022

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  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate

    Amazon Web Services (AWS) · Jun 2021

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  • IELTS

    British Council · Oct 2021

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