I build tools for knowledge work.
I’ve needed these tools as a researcher, built them as an engineer, and shipped them as a product manager.
Local, source-verified AI for people who work with confidential documents. Every answer is cited to page and paragraph, and nothing leaves the device. Built for journalists, lawyers, and researchers. Funded by MIZ Babelsberg, the media innovation centre of the Berlin-Brandenburg media authority. The latest pitch is recorded at ALEX Berlin.
A Berlin talent agency for actors, directors, writers and costume designers, combining artistic representation with in-house product development. Founded 2025.
Owned the homepage of one of Europe’s most-visited e-commerce platforms, leading discovery, roadmap, and delivery with a cross-functional team.
Coordinated a national research data infrastructure for tangible and intangible cultural heritage, aligning institutions across Germany around shared standards and services.
Built a search platform and open API for notated music, interlinking musicological repositories using RDF and schema.org.
Built my own research tool to work through the sources for my doctoral thesis: a digital edition of the official reports on musicological work in the GDR. Code at github.com/vonvlaho/bibreports.
My doctoral thesis on the history of music research in the German Democratic Republic was defended at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz in 2025 and appears with Peter Lang in 2026.