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Filip Thamasett
SoftCrafts

Cloud Architect & Applied AI Engineer

7+ years designing cloud platforms on GCP and Azure that stay secure, reliable and cost-efficient at scale – and building production AI on top of them: RAG pipelines, agentic workflows and real-time voice AI.

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Claude Certified ArchitectProfessional · 2026
7+years in cloud architecture
50+product teams migrated & enabled
80%backup cost reduction delivered
4AI & cloud certifications
About

SoftCrafts – IT Consulting

I'm a Cloud Architect and Applied AI Engineer with 7+ years designing and delivering cloud platforms on GCP and Azure – taking architecture decisions all the way to production across 50+ product teams. I've pitched cloud strategy at CEO and management level, secured the decision and owned the rollout, and I'm comfortable translating technical trade-offs for engineers and executives alike.

Building on that foundation, I help German enterprises bring AI into production – from RAG systems over official documentation to agentic pipelines and real-time conversational voice products.

With a hands-on full-stack background in Python and Golang, I don't just draw diagrams: I ship and operate the systems myself. My network of freelancing colleagues can add specialized capacity for short-term migration and build-up phases.

Name
Filip Thamasett
Focus
Cloud Architecture · AI Engineering
Location
Wörthsee / Munich, Germany
Work mode
Remote & on-site
Services

What I offer

From the first architecture decision to a system running reliably in production.

Cloud Architecture

Migration strategies and cloud-native platforms on GCP and Azure – designed for scalability, governance and substantially lower running costs.

AI Engineering

Production LLM applications: RAG pipelines with grounded, source-backed answers, agentic workflows, LLM-based evaluation loops and low-latency voice AI.

Reliability & Security

SRE practices, SLOs, monitoring, disaster recovery and zero-trust security concepts that keep your systems available without slowing teams down.

Advisory & Enablement

Technical leadership, executive-level strategy and hands-on knowledge transfer so your teams can own and evolve what we build together.

Experience

Selected projects

  • AI Platform Engineer

    IT Services Provider · Public Sector · Remote & Berlin
    Jun 2026 – Present
    • AI-Driven Bureaucracy Automation: end-to-end development of a citizen-facing AI assistant designed to automate German bureaucratic processes, giving citizens a single conversational entry point to fragmented government services.
    • Ground-Up RAG Implementation: architected and built a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) system from scratch over official German government documentation, engineering the full ingestion and retrieval pipeline for accurate, grounded responses across a wide range of public services.
    • Agentic Web Scraping & Form Discovery: designed an agentic scraping pipeline that crawls official government websites and leverages LLMs to autonomously evaluate pages.
    • Python
    • Golang
    • RAG
    • LLMs
    • Agentic AI
    • Prompt Engineering
  • Software Engineer & Cloud Architect

    Music Rights Collecting Society · 1,000+ employees · Remote & Berlin
    Nov 2021 – Present
    • Migration Strategy: developed the GCP and GitHub Enterprise migration strategy for 50+ product teams and provided hands-on assistance during their migration, contributing to a scalable development environment.
    • Cost & Infrastructure Optimization: eliminated almost all on-premise costs by shutting down legacy systems, and reduced annual costs by 50% by migrating on-premise traffic from Meshery to Apigee on GCP.
    • Security & Disaster Recovery: centralized cloud security posture with Google Cloud Security Command Center (SCC), reduced users with administrative privileges by 20% through granular Cloud IAM policies, and saved 80% on backup costs with an automated disaster recovery strategy.
    • Network & CI/CD Management: managed the public-facing load balancing infrastructure on GCP, including Cloud Armor and DNS, and reduced build times by 20% through a GitHub Actions migration.
    • Golang
    • GCP
    • Apigee
    • Terraform
    • GitHub
    • Kubernetes
    • BigQuery
    • Cloud Run
    • Istio
  • AI Solutions Engineer

    Aviation Training Company · Remote
    Sep 2025 – Feb 2026
    • AI product development: led end-to-end development of a conversational AI voice tutor for English training of aerospace personnel.
    • Real-time voice: engineered a low-latency voice interface with OpenAI, Vertex AI (Gemini) and Dialogflow; built a self-hosted POC with Nvidia's open-source speech LLM PersonaPlex.
    • High-concurrency backend: Python and WebSockets backend handling concurrent audio streams, balancing LLM accuracy against response speed.
    • Domain-specific RAG: grounded responses in proprietary aerospace documentation to minimize hallucinations.
    • Python
    • OpenAI
    • Vertex AI
    • Gemini
    • HuggingFace
    • Dialogflow
  • Technical Lead

    Mobility Company · Remote & Düsseldorf
    Jun 2022 – Jun 2025
    • Greenfield Platform Architecture: acted as Technical Lead to architect and build an entirely new, "Uber-like" remote driving platform from scratch, establishing a highly reliable system that reduced platform outages by 90% for an automotive client.
    • Azure Ecosystem & Cloud Adoption Framework: engineered the foundational infrastructure on Azure DevOps, Azure Entra and Azure Stack, designing the entire zero-to-one architecture in strict alignment with Azure's CAF for enterprise-grade governance, security and scalable growth from day one.
    • Cloud-Native & Event-Driven Systems: refactored legacy applications into a modern event-driven architecture of stateless Golang and Python microservices, enabling horizontal scalability and seamless deployment rollouts.
    • Technical Strategy & Leadership: directed a team of 4 developers and mentored 2 juniors, driving the technical vision, enforcing architectural best practices and securing executive buy-in for the overarching cloud strategy.
    • Golang
    • Python
    • Azure
    • Terraform
    • PostgreSQL
    • Kubernetes
    • Helm
  • Software Engineer & Cloud Architect

    Retail Company · 500,000+ employees · Remote & Heilbronn
    May 2019 – May 2022
    • Automation & Onboarding: reduced onboarding time by 90% for 60+ product teams by implementing infrastructure-as-code (IaC) for GCP service deployments.
    • SRE & Backup Strategy: enhanced uptime awareness by developing SRE strategies and defining SLOs/SLAs with Google Cloud's Stackdriver, and cut backup costs by 50% through automated backup and recovery using cold storage classes and retention policies.
    • Zero-Trust Security: strengthened security by implementing BeyondCorp-based concepts across the entire platform.
    • Financial Operations (FinOps): prevented unforeseen cost spikes with custom anomaly detection in Golang, using statistical analysis techniques such as Bollinger Bands across Azure and GCP.
    • Golang
    • GCP
    • Terraform
    • Azure DevOps
    • Kubernetes
    • Docker
    • OIDC
    • Prometheus
    • Grafana
    • Stackdriver

Earlier experience

  • Senior Software Engineer

    Ubirch
    2021

    Cloud-native migration in Golang for the digital vaccination certificate system, improving system reliability by 20%.

  • Full-Stack & DevOps Engineer

    Rohde & Schwarz
    2018 – 2019

    Launched a digital sales platform for cloud applications with CI/CD pipelines on OpenShift.

Skills

Toolbox

Cloud Platforms

  • Google Cloud (GCP)
  • Microsoft Azure
  • Apigee
  • Cloud Run
  • BigQuery
  • Azure Entra

AI & Machine Learning

  • LLMs
  • RAG
  • Agentic AI
  • Claude
  • OpenAI API
  • Vertex AI
  • Dialogflow
  • HuggingFace
  • Speech-to-Text

Languages

  • Golang
  • Python

Tools & Platforms

  • Terraform
  • Kubernetes
  • Docker
  • Helm
  • Postgres
  • Prometheus
  • Grafana
  • GitHub Enterprise
  • Azure DevOps
  • Keycloak

Architecture & Security

  • Event-Driven Architecture
  • Microservices
  • Cloud Networking & DNS
  • Global Load Balancing
  • Zero Trust
  • SecOps
Credentials

Certifications & Education

Certifications

Claude Certified Architect – ProfessionalAnthropic
Aug 2026
Generative AI LLMs AssociateNvidia
Jan 2026
Generative AI LeaderGoogle Cloud
Jul 2025
Professional Cloud ArchitectGoogle Cloud
Mar 2025

Education

M.Sc. Electrical Engineering and Information Technology Technical University of Munich (TUM)
Thesis: Deep neural networks for pointer-based multi-face landmark detection
2015 – 2017
B.Sc. Engineering Physics Munich University of Applied Sciences
Thesis: Developing a finger-pointing gesture control
2011 – 2015

Let's build something that works in production.

Planning an AI product, a RAG system or a cloud migration? Let's discuss how I can help you reach your goals – I'm happy to dive into your project's needs.