I turn AI into repeatable value creation — as a builder, operator, and trusted advisor.
Full-stack engineer → founder → AI strategist. I ship production LLM platforms (0→1 fast), enable engineering teams, and bridge the gap between technical possibility and business reality.
Now: Operating Principal (AI/Tech) @ GrowthFactors (Bregal Unternehmerkapital's internal go-to-market and value-creation team) Prev: Head of AI @ CISTEC AG • Founder @ DocIQ
| 🔨 Builder | Built and sold AI LegalTech to Swiss enterprises (incl. Swisscom) via DocIQ |
| ⚙️ Operator | Operating Principal (AI/Tech) @ GrowthFactors — driving AI/tech value creation across Bregal Unternehmerkapital's portfolio companies |
| 🎓 Technical Expert (ITDR) | Engaged for IP/copyright analysis and expert testimony in legal proceedings, including arbitration and state-court litigation |
| 💡 Advisor | Guide VCs, C-suites, and portfolio companies on AI strategy, architecture, and risk via Mickel Tech |
Creating robust, production-ready AI systems that drive measurable outcomes
🏗️ Reusable AI Platforms
→ LLM API gateways, vector search services, context engineering, evaluation frameworks
🔒 Privacy-Preserving AI
→ On-prem PII masking (~97% accuracy) for FADP/GDPR compliance
🤖 Agentic Architectures
→ Multi-agent systems, prompt-to-structured-data compilers, semantic search at scale
👨💻 Developer Enablement
→ AI coding assistant rollouts, prompt/playbook patterns, safety guardrails
📊 Production LLM Ops
→ Evaluation pipelines (quality/safety/latency/cost), observability, A/B testing
| 🚀 | Shipped a production LLM platform in <3 months, driving new ARR in Swiss hospitals |
| 🧩 | Built reusable AI components adopted by 6+ internal teams |
| ⚡ | Scaled GitHub Copilot/Cursor to 50+ engineers with measurable productivity gains |
| 🤝 | Forged strategic partnerships (cloud providers, research institutions) |
| 🎤 | Speaker at openEHR.ch Symposium: Agentic AI for Structured Clinical Data |
| Focus Area | Description |
|---|---|
| 🏗️ Building | The next generation of agentic AI systems |
| 💼 Advising | Select teams where deep technical execution meets strategic impact |
| 🌐 Contributing | Open-source contributions to the AI engineering community |
| 📅 | Advisory/consulting: Book a call |
| 💬 | Questions/feedback: DM on X |
| 🚀 | Open to select opportunities where technical depth meets strategic impact |
| ❤️ | Support: GitHub Sponsors · Ko-fi |
- The Imperative of Smarter Clinical Information Systems
- Building a GPT-4 Powered Chatbot with Node.js: Unlimited Context and Chat History in Under 100 Lines of Code
- The Importance of Context in AI: Garbage In, Garbage Out
➡️ More posts on Medium · More on Substack ⬅️
If my work helped you, consider supporting it:
Built with ❤️ by Gordon Mickel