Michael Fröhlich
The Internet, Germany
Summary
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RockstarMichael 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
Github Skills (145)
nextra10
prompt-engineering10
opentelemetry10
llama-index10
monitoring10
llmops10
ai10
observability10
analytics10
ycombinator10
evaluation10
langchain10
open-source10
autogen10
large-language-models10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
FroeMic/TUM-IN-Protein-Prediction-1
Jul 2017 - May 2018
Contributions:54 commits in 10 months
FroeMic/at.frhlch.ios.ping
Jun 2018 - Aug 2018
Ping is a sleek network analysis tool to check host reachability on the go.
Contributions:80 commits, 18 PRs, 50 pushes in 2 months
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