Severin Kistner is a founder and hands-on IT consultant with 13 years of experience designing and shipping full-stack, cloud-native and ML-driven systems across startups and scale-ups from Munich. He architects and leads engineering teams while remaining deeply technical—building everything from React/TypeScript front-ends and Node/Java backends to PyTorch-based ML pipelines and Kubernetes/ArgoCD deployments. His consultancy, Expanse, produces both bespoke client systems (AdTech targeting, encrypted gov services, large-scale image ML) and a product—The Taurus—addressing EU political advertising transparency with an AI compliance checker and machine-readable API. Proven at rescuing product platforms, he rose rapidly from engineer to architect at Smart Reporting by rethinking data models for radiology reporting. Comfortable across the stack and lifecycle, he combines pragmatic engineering with regulatory and operational awareness that helps bridge research prototypes into compliant production services.
13 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Business and Information Technology, Business and Information Technology at FOM University of Applied Sciences for Economics and Management
Business and Information Technology, Business and Information Technology at Hochschule München University of Applied Sciences
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Severin Kistner - Founder & IT Consultant at Expanse