Pascal.DE

Hey, I'm Pascal

Software Architect

Thinks architecture big, starts pragmatic, and learns new things via YouTube if needed — as long as a good idea becomes something that actually helps people.

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  • 10+

    Years of software engineering

  • 15+

    Apps in production

  • 10+

    Apprentices mentored

My story.

#! /developers/pascal

[System Prompt]: Maximize architectural integrity. Ensure rapid MVP delivery. Bridge visionary strategy with high-performance execution.

At a glance

  • Role: Senior Software Engineer & tech generalist
  • Focus: Scalable frontend architectures, monorepo management & agentic AI pipelines

The person behind the code

From gamer to engineer

My love for IT started in gaming: hosting private servers, writing Minecraft plugins, custom Garry's Mod scripts. The real lesson was pace — IT changes faster than you can document it. That's why AI isn't hype to me; it's the next logical tool.

If there's a video for it, I can learn it

My motto: if there's a YouTube video, I can learn it. That applies beyond code — when I renovated my house I had almost no craft experience. I bring the same learning attitude to technology: break it down, try it, master it.

Where I work best

I'm most productive with operational agency. Add a strong MVP mindset: the big vision is the target state; we still ship this week.

Skills.

Pascal StäbPortrait photo of Pascal StäbPascal StäbGroup: Artificial IntelligenceAIArtificial Intellige…Skill: Model Context ProtocolAnthropic / Model Context Protocol logoModel Context ProtocolSkill: OllamaOllama logoOllamaSkill: LangChainLangChain logoLangChainSkill: RAG architecturesRARAG architecturesSkill: Cursor (AI-native IDE)Cursor logoCursor (AI-native IDE)Skill: GitHub CopilotGitHub Copilot logoGitHub CopilotGroup: Frontend ArchitectureFAFrontend ArchitectureSkill: Angular (enterprise)Angular logoAngular (enterprise)Skill: TypeScriptTypeScript logoTypeScriptSkill: MicrofrontendsMIMicrofrontendsSkill: BFFBFBFFGroup: Programming & BackendPBProgramming & BackendSkill: Spring BootSpring Boot logoSpring BootSkill: PythonPython logoPythonSkill: C#.NET / C# logoC#Skill: FirebaseFirebase logoFirebaseGroup: Testing & QualityTQTesting & QualitySkill: JestJest logoJestSkill: PlaywrightPlaywright logoPlaywrightSkill: SonarQubeSonarQube logoSonarQubeGroup: InfrastructureINInfrastructureSkill: TerraformTerraform logoTerraformSkill: DockerDocker logoDockerSkill: CI/CDGitHub Actions logoCI/CDSkill: DatadogDatadog logoDatadog
Me: Pascal Stäb. Artificial Intelligence: Model Context Protocol, Ollama, LangChain, RAG architectures, Cursor (AI-native IDE), GitHub Copilot. Frontend Architecture: Angular (enterprise), TypeScript, Microfrontends, BFF. Programming & Backend: Spring Boot, Python, C#, Firebase. Testing & Quality: Jest, Playwright, SonarQube. Infrastructure: Terraform, Docker, CI/CD, Datadog

Experience & Projects.

Selected stations and work — compact enough for a CV overview. Curious about a specific entry? Feel free to get in touch.

  • TumbleTree Studios branding

    October 2025 – present

    current

    TumbleTree Studios

    Co-founder & Managing Director · TumbleTree Studios UG

    Side venture shipping our own software ideas — using AI across code, graphics, and music.

    • TypeScript
    • AI tooling
    • Product design

    Building a small studio to ship products end-to-end instead of only contributing inside larger orgs.

    Focus right now

    • Learning app for kids — playful learning as the product thesis
    • Websites for local craft businesses — practical MVPs with clear scope

    Why it matters for a CV

    Hands-on ownership across idea, architecture, delivery, and go-to-market — with AI used as a force multiplier rather than a novelty.

  • m

    2025–2026

    current

    myBASFNavigator

    Senior Software Engineer · BASF Digital Solutions GmbH (myBASFWorld)

    Multi-agent chatbot for orders, shipments and product data — embedded as an Angular microfrontend across multiple host apps.

    • Angular
    • Microfrontend
    • Azure AI Foundry
    • MCP
    • Streams API
    • TypeScript

    Customer-facing AI assistant for viewing orders and shipments and querying product information and documents. Focus: microfrontend UI and infrastructure; because the agents mainly consume commerce-world data, also involved in architecture discussions.

    Approach

    • Angular microfrontend hosted in several applications, talking over a Streams API
    • Reverse proxy for auth and CORS where direct backend calls were blocked
    • Multi-agent setup in Azure AI Foundry — orchestrator routes to specialist agents
    • Tooling migrating from classic commerce APIs toward MCP

    Takeaways

    Treat agent and existing product UI as one system — conversation for specific questions, navigation for overviews. Don’t ship an agent just to have an agent; trust is hard to win back.

    Confidential details (guardrails, prompts, internals) are intentionally omitted.

  • myBASFWorld e-commerce platform

    Late 2022 – present

    current

    myBASFWorld

    Senior Software Engineer · BASF Digital Solutions GmbH (E-Commerce & Web Experience)

    Architecture and delivery for global B2B e-commerce platforms — feature flagging, monorepo/multirepo migration, and platform enablement.

    • Angular
    • TypeScript
    • Microfrontend
    • CI/CD
    • Feature flags

    Senior engineering on the myBASFWorld commerce landscape: keeping global webshops healthy while modernizing how teams ship.

    Scope

    • Scaling and maintaining global webshops, including feature flagging
    • Helping migrate toward a multirepo setup for cost efficiency
    • Platform patterns that later enabled embedding AI assistants (see myBASFNavigator)

    CV angle

    Long-running ownership of enterprise storefront architecture — reliability, cost, and delivery cadence across multiple host applications.

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  • H

    2026

    HausVerstand

    Solo builder · Personal project

    Local RAG over house documents on a NAS — query building files, contracts and amortization plans via LLM, without the cloud.

    • Ollama
    • Mistral
    • LangChain
    • Python
    • ChromaDB
    • Docling

    After buying a house, a NAS folder filled with oddly named PDFs. Built a fully local RAG stack to make that corpus queryable.

    Approach

    Two stages: preprocessing (OCR, layout, master data) and RAG (section-aware chunking, metadata-filtered retrieval, document-bound prompts). Stack: Ollama, Mistral, LangChain, Docling, OCR, ChromaDB.

    Results

    Semantic queries over building/property data worked early; structured chunking made loan conditions findable. Pain points were scanned-contract OCR and naive chunking burying key numbers.

    Learning

    Metadata beats pure similarity search. In RAG, the data pipeline is the real product.

  • My Carbon Footprint B2B platform

    Mid 2021 – late 2022

    My Carbon Footprint

    Product Owner / Software Engineer · BASF Digital Solutions GmbH (Customer Facing Data Services)

    B2B platform for CO2 transparency across the customer portfolio — full-stack delivery with a temporary Product Owner stint.

    • Angular
    • TypeScript
    • Enterprise data pipelines

    Built the customer-facing My Carbon Footprint platform so buyers can see CO2 impact across their portfolio.

    Scope

    • Full-stack development with Angular and enterprise data pipelines
    • Temporarily owned Product Owner responsibilities — prioritization, stakeholder alignment, delivery cadence

    CV angle

    Combines hands-on engineering with product ownership in a regulated enterprise context.

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  • R

    October 2018 – mid 2021

    R&D application platform

    Software Engineer · BASF Digital Solutions GmbH (Research & Development)

    Full-stack R&D app replacing complex Excel structures — Angular architecture ownership, shared libraries, Spring Boot and CI/CD.

    • Angular
    • TypeScript
    • Spring Boot
    • CI/CD

    Replaced fragile Excel-heavy research workflows with a maintainable full-stack application.

    Ownership

    • Lead ownership of the Angular frontend architecture
    • Company-wide component libraries and custom schematics
    • Spring Boot backends and automated CI/CD pipelines

    CV angle

    Early proof of architecture ownership: shared UI foundations, backend delivery, and automation — not just feature tickets.

  • Bachelor thesis cover — digital voice assistants in research labs

    Summer 2018

    Digital voice assistants in research labs

    Bachelor thesis (solo) · DHBW Mannheim & BASF Digital Solutions GmbH

    Two Alexa skills as a proof-of-value for hands-free lab documentation and status check-ins — bachelor thesis, 12 weeks.

    • Amazon Alexa Skills Kit
    • AWS Lambda
    • DynamoDB
    • SES
    • Node.js

    Lab staff with contaminated gloves waste time toggling PCs for documentation. Solo pilot across two labs: as-is analysis through security assessment.

    PoV use cases

    • Email notes by voice
    • Check-in system for labs without line of sight

    Approach

    Requirements catalog, scored decision matrix over five alternatives (Alexa won), interaction model, Lambda backend, structured security analysis.

    Learning

    AI value sits where physical work meets digital workflow. PoV scope discipline and early risk analysis belong in the deliverable.

  • DHBW Mannheim campus building

    September 2015 – October 2018

    Dual studies Information Technology (B.Eng.)

    Dual student (B.Eng.) · DHBW Mannheim & BASF Digital Solutions GmbH

    Dual computer science degree with continuous practice at BASF — final grade 1.9; stations across SAP Basis, WM, Master Data and Innovation.

    • SAP
    • Java
    • Web development

    Structured dual path: academic IT foundation paired with rotating practice stations.

    Stations included

    SAP Basis, Warehouse Management, Master Data, Innovation — plus the bachelor thesis on digital voice assistants in research labs.

    CV angle

    Early breadth across enterprise IT domains before specializing in frontend architecture and AI-assisted delivery.

How I work.

  • Who do you work best with?

    People who live an open feedback culture, name problems directly, and actively help solve them.

  • In which working style do you have the most impact?

    With operational decision power, clear freedom to shape solutions, and a focus on MVPs — tackling tech debt at the root.

  • Which roles complement you?

    Structured strategists who keep roadmap and deadlines in view, and scouts who bring new trends into the team. I pressure-test ideas for feasibility and turn them into architectures.

  • Why is that?

    Pure administration without room to shape things slows me down. Vision plus guardrails plus MVP thinking ships innovation with less friction.

Let's talk.

Open to interesting roles, architecture challenges, and side projects.

pascal@itskajo.de

Germany