Berlin-based engineering executive with more than 25 years in the field, now VP of Engineering and Deputy CTO at Affinidi, a Singapore-headquartered digital-trust and identity infrastructure company. She spent roughly eight years at HERE Technologies as a principal engineer working on site reliability and engineering productivity before joining Affinidi, where she rose from senior engineering manager to deputy CTO in about four years.
Argues AI agents need an explicit trust layer — decentralized trust graphs and verifiable credentials — so systems can prove who or what took an action.
Pushes for open standards and cross-border interoperability in digital identity.
From her conference talk: reliability and trust have to be engineered into production AI, not asserted after the fact.
Speaks on career growth frameworks for engineers, including her own "GROWTH Pathways" model.
Accomplishments
VP of Engineering and Deputy CTO at Affinidi, after rising from senior engineering manager in about four years.
Roughly eight years at HERE Technologies as a principal engineer on site reliability and engineering productivity.
Wrote publicly on OpenVTC's decentralized trust architecture for verifying both humans and AI agents.
Spoke at the Women in Tech Global Conference on leadership and career transitions.
