German Rauhut

Technical Product Owner & AI Product Builder

Diplom-Betriebswirt · Business Information Systems, DHBW Stuttgart

My passion

neckarshore.ai

AI-accelerated software development — incl. OMNIXIS Documenter

Open Source

Obsidian Vault Autopilot

Plugin for automated knowledge management — GitHub

About

Bridge-builder between business and technology — with 10+ years of experience in international automotive projects (Mercedes-Benz) and a second career as an AI product builder. Today I combine requirements and test management from the corporate world with hands-on AI engineering: own products, multi-agent development processes, full-stack delivery.

years corporate
10+
tests shipped
466
AI agents
12+
API endpoints
95

Worked for

Mercedes-Benz · IBM · Deutsche Bank · Allianz · Gothaer · Contargo · Rhenus AG · Regional Container Lines · plenum · Targens · TestGilde

Core Competencies

TodayFoundation
AI Product Development — multi-agent architectures, LLM integration, prompt engineeringRequirements Management — from rough concept to technical story
Technical Product Ownership — vision, backlog, deliveryProject Management — classic & agile, international teams
Full-Stack Engineering — NestJS, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, Redis, DockerTest Management — E2E, API, automation, test strategy
DevOps & CI/CD — GitHub Actions, Vercel, monitoringEnterprise Consulting — ITSM, Release Mgmt, Change Mgmt

Projects

Since 10/2025 · Freelance

Neckarshore AI — Technical Product Owner & AI Product Builder

Building my own AI products and open-source tools. Hands-on engineering combined with product ownership.

  • OMNIXIS Documenter — AI-powered documentation engine. Generates compliance, technical, and release documentation from Git, Jira, and Confluence. 466 tests, 95 API endpoints, RBAC, monitoring stack.
  • Obsidian Vault Autopilot — Open-source plugin for automated knowledge management (Markdown, YAML frontmatter, Obsidian API). Nearing public launch on GitHub.
  • AI-powered multi-agent development process — 12+ specialized AI agents (architecture, implementation, security, refactoring, marketing) with structured handoff protocol, parallel execution, and automated quality assurance.

Stack: NestJS, TypeScript, PostgreSQL, Redis/BullMQ, Next.js, Claude Code (Opus), Docker, GitHub Actions, Vercel

07/2015 – 10/2025 · Employed & external

Mercedes-Benz AG & ecosystem

10 years in the Mercedes-Benz ecosystem — from tester to Business IT Consultant to Technical Product Owner. Throughout: agile, international projects with growing responsibility for product, architecture, and process.

  1. 10/2025

    Exit — transition to independent work

  2. 10/2021 – 10/2025

    Technical Product Owner

    PLUS.Classic & PLUS.NextGen. Product Owner for a master-data product (ACL) within the PLUS NextGen program. Agile development with a team in South Africa, AI prototyping, ITSM consulting, Plant Relationship Manager Sindelfingen.

  3. 09/2017 – 09/2021

    Senior Business IT Consultant

    SFMd, group-wide digitalization of shop-floor management. Requirements analysis, automation of configuration (> 50,000 KPI), test automation setup (Katalon/Selenium), release management on a 2-week cadence.

  4. 07/2015 – 08/2017

    Senior Business Analyst & Tester

    TestGilde GmbH, end-customer Daimler AG. International website for an automotive product. Requirements analysis, regression/progression testing, release management.

Overall: SCRUM, JIRA, Confluence, REST APIs, Postman, JSON, ServiceNow, Katalon (Selenium), MS SQL Server, Adobe AEM

Earlier roles (1992 – 2015)

Before Mercedes-Benz: 23 years of career — mandatory military service with the German Air Force in 1992, then consulting, software development, and operational leadership roles in Germany, Switzerland, and Thailand. Professional life started in 1993 — straight to Bangkok.

PeriodRoleContext
07/2014 – 06/2015Senior PM ComplianceTargens (formerly Cellent Finance Solutions), Stuttgart — specialized AML application
10/2011 – 06/2014Business IT ConsultantContargo AG, Basel — freight forwarding software 4ward
10/2013 – 12/2013Business IT ConsultantDeutsche Bank, Frankfurt — embargo filtering processes
06/2010 – 07/2013Subproject LeadAllianz AMOS — AML software implementation
04/2007 – 03/2010Business IT ConsultantRegional Container Lines (RCL), Bangkok — ERP implementation
03/2007Business IT ConsultantContargo, Ludwigshafen — CRM selection
08/2006 – 01/2007Business IT ConsultantBMT AG, Basel — M+R standard software
03/2004 – 06/2006Senior eBusiness ConsultantRhenus AG — ERP & Terminal Management System
02/2001 – 02/2004Senior Consultantplenum Systems — CRM for banking & insurance
10/2000 – 01/2001Software DeveloperEDM Müller + Partner — reporting system
07/1996 – 06/2000Manager Software DevelopmentSoftControl Co., Ltd, Bangkok — business software & internet programming, founded and led the development unit
08/1994 – 12/1994IT ConsultantSoftControl Co., Ltd, Bangkok — business software development
03/1993 – 06/1996Factory / Procurement / Production ManagerOperational leadership roles in Thailand
1992Mandatory Military Service, German Air ForceProgrammierzentrum der Luftwaffe für fliegende Waffensysteme (ProgrZLwflgWS) — Welfen-Kaserne, Landsberg am Lech

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