Michael Fröhlich
Engineer In Residence at Lucid Capital
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Fröhlich is an engineer and early-stage operator with a decade of experience bridging research-driven product development and founder-led startups, currently serving as Engineer in Residence at Lucid. He co-founded and served as CTO of Ark Climate, building software for cities’ net-zero transitions, and has freelanced on open-source LLM engineering platforms like Langfuse. Trained in computer science and technology management from TUM and CDTM with visiting research stints at UC Berkeley and WU Vienna, he blends rigorous academic inquiry with hands-on engineering. His background spans iOS development, security research at Fraunhofer, and management of a leading European entrepreneurship program, giving him both technical depth and ecosystem fluency. Michael gravitates toward AI-native, too-early ideas and obsessive founders, favoring projects that sit at the intersection of applied research, product-market fit, and systems engineering. Based in Munich, he offers a rare combination of startup grit, academic rigor, and practical experience shipping production systems.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctoral Candidate | Chair for Human-Centered Ubiquitous Media, Doctoral Candidate | Chair for Human-Centered Ubiquitous Media at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität MünchenHigh School, High School at Realgymnasium RamsauerstraßeYoung Polymer Scientists, Young Polymer Scientists at Johannes Kepler Universität LinzDoctoral Candidate | Chair of Strategy and Organization, Doctoral Candidate | Chair of Strategy and Organization at Technical University of MunichHonours Degree Technology Management, Honours Degree Technology Management at Center for Digital Technology and Management (CDTM)Visiting Researcher, Visiting Researcher at Institute for Entrepreneurship & Innovation, WU Vienna University of Economics and BusinessVisiting Student Researcher Interface Design Data Mining and Analytics Full Stack Web Development, Visiting Student Researcher Interface Design Data Mining and Analytics Full Stack Web Development at UC Berkeley School of Information
German, English, Russian
Github Skills (160)
adldap10
browser9
authentication9
extensible9
contenteditable9
react9
lexical9
driver9
ldap-authentication8
jwt8
auth8
wysiwyg8
docker-container8
security8
rich-text-editor8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
FroeMic/TUM-IN-Protein-Prediction-1
Jul 2017 - May 2018
Contributions:54 commits in 10 months
FroeMic/FullStack_Info_FinalProject
Apr 2018 - Jul 2018
Contributions:3 releases, 29 PRs, 71 pushes in 3 months
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