He was born in Trostberg, Bavaria, Germany on March 18, 1976[1] and obtained his doctorate in 2004.

[3] He is a contributor to open source projects, among those Apache Marmotta[4] and participated in several European FP6 and FP7 research projects such as REWERSE (Reasoning on the Web with rules and semantics),[5][6] KiWi (Knowledge in a Wiki),[7][8] IKS (Interactive Knowledge Stack)[9] and MICO (Media in Context).

[11][12][13] In December 2004, he obtained his doctorate at the faculty of Mathematics, Computer Science and Statistics at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität of Munich with the thesis "Xcerpt: A Rule-Based Query and Transformation Language for the Web".

[2] In 2009–2010, he taught at the Fachhochschule (University of Applied Science) of Salzburg[15] In 2013, he co-founded Redlink and held the CTO position.

[4][16][17][18][19] In December 2014, he joined Google at Zürich, where he currently works as Site Reliability Engineering Manager.