Career
- since 2026 – Forward deployed engineer and technology consultant for SMEs at kohnen.digital: web applications, process automation, AI agents and LLM integration, run on European infrastructure.
- 2019 – 2025 – Freelance full-stack developer, mostly with digital agencies, for clients including EDEKA (retailer platform with its own CRM, directly with EDEKA's IT, 2021–2025), LANXESS and TU Berlin, and repeatedly for Deutsche Post and DHL. Focus: performance, accessibility, maintainability.
- 2016 – 2019 – Software engineer at the Berlin start-up STICKERSTARS: frontend, backend, shop, servers and office IT, plus data protection coordinator for the GDPR rollout.
- 2015 – 2019 – Partner and technical lead of the agency manaliso: sustainable textiles, websites, branding and print.
Education
- Bachelor of Engineering in Print and Media Technology, Berliner Hochschule für Technik (BHT), 2016
- Master's studies in Language and Communication at Technische Universität Berlin (2019–2022, no degree) – including language technology and corpus linguistics, useful today when working with language models
Technology
TypeScript, React, Next.js, Node.js, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Docker, Terraform and CI/CD; cloud on Azure and AWS as well as European providers (Hetzner, IONOS, StackIT). AI models via the OpenAI and Anthropic APIs or hosted in the EU.
Profiles
Contact
Philipp Kohnen · Berlin
Email: mail@kohnen.digital
Phone: +49 160 90 22 88 20