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Oliver Baer / LüneburgSoftware that works on Monday
I buildserioussoftware.
Founder. Architect. Engineer. Still curious.
From medical systems to AI infrastructure, I turn complicated product ideas into dependable tools people can actually use. Clear decisions. Working software. No mysticism required.
Now / Three seats, one person
What's
on the
desk?
The seats stack on purpose. Each product supplies a different kind of reality check to the others.
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02Senior DevOps Architect · AI Advisor
Independent Consulting
Designing the infrastructure that lets AI products ship reliably — CI/CD, container orchestration and observability without theatre.
Founder · Chief Architect
nyxCore Systems
The orchestration brain behind a growing product ecosystem: workflows, durable context, specialised personas and self-repair.
Founder · Product Owner
Q-Records Storemanager
A full-stack SaaS for vinyl stores and second-hand retailers — where abstract architecture meets a real shop counter.
Aristaeus / The Cultivator of Solutions
“What if we solved the problem upstream of the problem?”
A voice in the machine.
Aristaeus carries Oli's register inside nyxCore: anticipatory innovation, cross-domain synthesis, lateral thinking and product vision — hardened by Ipcha self-check, because a visionary who refuses to be stress-tested is only a pitch deck.
anticipatory-innovationcross-domain-synthesissolution-crystallizationlateral-thinkingproduct-vision
Work.
Selected systems with real users, operational consequences and enough scar tissue to be interesting.
New product / by nyxCore
Etch.
Knowledge base & employee onboarding
Onboarding that actually sticks.
ETCH turns company knowledge into a patient mentor: questions answered with a citation into the source, new colleagues guided step by step through handbooks, policies and processes — and the knowledge actually sticks. For law firms, practices, HR teams and everyone who teaches people.
Answer
Receive a source-grounded answer from your organisation's knowledge.
Etch
Turn the useful part into a personal learning card.
Review
Repeat it when spaced-repetition science says it matters.
Mastery
Make individual and team capability visible.
Knowledge is not retained because it was available. It is retained because it was used, recalled and reinforced.
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Etch this
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My Etches
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Review
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Mastery
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Team Mastery
Research / Run in public
Show
the work.
Not everything on the desk is a product. Two studies run in the open — every claim ships with its derivation, so the numbers below are ones you can argue with. Row by row.
Hallucination floor — derived0.15 %
Adversarial lenses3
NLI score separation0.923
LLM providers8
Evolving personas15
Days, locked in advance28
The arc / Twenty-eight years
Built in the real world.
Medical systems taught precision. Media taught scale. Manufacturing taught consequence. Retail taught the counterexample. AI infrastructure ties those lessons together.
- 1998 — 2004
01 / Medical devices
Philips Medical Systems. Software radiologists depend on. Six years of learning that software can have weight.
- 2006 — 2007
02 / Consumer portals
Surf Media GmbH. High-traffic billing tools and third-party API integrations. The scale year.
- 2007 — 2014
03 / Media intelligence
Kantar Media GmbH. Zend, Solr, OCR, AWS clusters — turning noise into signal at industrial scale.
- 2013 — 2015
04 / South America
Salome Media GmbH, co-founded. Social-media monitoring and product-placement analytics for Spanish-speaking markets.
- 2014 — 2020
05 / Manufacturing
Managing director at Druckgassysteme Wittler: production, prototypes, 3D printing, quotations, customers.
- 2021 — 2024
06 / Back into software
Go microservices, Kubernetes, exhibition applications, Pimcore and a GraphQL gateway replacing legacy XML.
- 2025 — now
07 / AI-native infrastructure
Consulting, Q-Records and nyxCore. Three seats, one arc. Cross-domain synthesis as a specialisation.
Three agents running in production
Father of three. The longest-running deployment he maintains: three small entities that started stateless, acquired goals he did not specify and are approaching autonomy on their own definitions of correctness.
Restaurant kitchens
The composure-under-pressure line is not a metaphor. Professional kitchens taught ten-things-at-once with no dropped plates — the same mental shape as a 2am production incident.
Manufacturing floor
Six years running a manufacturing company. Shipping becomes a habit when broken things stop a physical line and every abstraction eventually meets steel, time and a customer.
The stack / In current use
01 / Languages
- TypeScript
- Python
- Rust
- Go
- PHP
- C / C++
02 / Infra · DevOps
- Linux
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Traefik
- AWS
- Google Cloud
- Hetzner
- Prometheus · Grafana · Loki
03 / Data · AI
- PostgreSQL · pgvector
- Redis
- MongoDB
- Next.js 16
- tRPC v11
- LLM routing · BYOK
- Anthropic · OpenAI · Google · Ollama
- Embeddings · HNSW
One practitioner. Whole path.
I work between architecture and the shop floor: from an ambiguous product decision through implementation and into stable production. My stronger skill is often deciding what the product does not need.
If your project needs a twenty-seat consultancy, this is the wrong page. If it needs someone who has shipped across six domains and still answers his own email, this is the right one.