Chris is a founding engineer at Dryft and our Swiss-army knife. He builds our core tech stack end-to-end — from infrastructure to ensuring customers have a stellar UX.

Before Dryft, Chris built the AI unit at Yoummday from the ground up, developing customer experience agents on open-source foundation models. Earlier, he was the first onsite engineer at Kyte in San Francisco, where he developed an optimization algorithm that matched millions of trips to their optimal drivers.

Chris holds a Master’s in Electrical Engineering from TUM and was a Fulbright scholar at UC Berkeley, specializing in AI. During his studies, he patented a novel AI method for classifying brain tumors from 3D MRI scans with Brainlab AG.

His background in AI goes back to high school, where he conducted robotics and medtech research, earning international recognition at competitions like Jugend forscht, RoboCup, and ICYS (Gold medal).

Outside of work, Chris explores the world through food and travel — with a personal record of visiting six continents in just three months.