My career has unfolded alongside the rapid evolution of metal additive manufacturing, giving me a front-row seat to both its breakthroughs and its bottlenecks. I started at SLM Solutions Software GmbH as an Application Engineer, mastering the fundamentals of industrial 3D printing alongside operating and maintaining the AM equipment and running the Application Center in Austria. Eager to dive deeper into a wider customer base, I then joined a small AM software company, where I worked with customers across many different machine OEMs. In 2021 I moved to Los Angeles to join Divergent as a Machine Design Engineer, spending more than three years developing the additive-first production systems behind the trailblazing Czinger hypercar platform.

Over the years, I’ve had the chance to run nearly every major LPBF machine and process almost every common AM alloy—multiple grades of aluminum, stainless and tool steels, titanium, cobalt-chrome, Inconel, and more. I’ve supported applications as varied as medical implants, defense components, aerospace hardware, automotive prototypes, and oil and gas tooling, from one-off specials to production runs in the thousands. That breadth of exposure has made one thing abundantly clear: while hardware races ahead, the biggest bottleneck in additive manufacturing is still software.

Too often, I’ve watched production workflows bog down under manual, generic, one-size-fits-all parameter sets—sacrificing part quality, consistency, and the true promise of AM. Existing software rarely offers the flexibility or automation needed to match the sophistication of today’s machines or the demands of modern applications.

That realization is what drew me to Dyndrite. The team is building software that doesn’t merely keep up with hardware advances—it helps drive the next leap forward. With deep customization and automation, the Dyndrite platform lets manufacturers scale effortlessly, whether they’re printing a single prototype or orchestrating hundreds of builds across multiple machines and sites. It moves beyond basic slicing to deliver finely tuned, performance-driven parameters tailored to each part, material, and use case.

In short, Dyndrite unlocks the real potential of additive manufacturing—and I’m excited to help make that potential a reality.

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