Vita

Mai 2026

Coud Gallery

In early 2026, as AI continued to encroach further into our daily lives, I realized just how digitally dependent I had become. For this reason, I decided to stop storing my photos exclusively in the Google Cloud and instead set up my own private version of „Google Photos.“

Using AI and „vibe-coding“ (via Google AI Studio), I generated a Google Photos-like application through prompting. The frontend—that is, the look and feel—bears a resemblance to Google Photos, but is enhanced with features I had previously built years ago using Couno. This allows galleries to be easily shared with others (including the assignment of read/write permissions) and features a map view where I can display photos chronologically based on their embedded geo-coordinates. In presentation mode, I can thus relive those experiences while simultaneously seeing on the map exactly where they took place.

I did not entrust the backend (storage and data management) to the AI; it is written in PHP and essentially functions as a comprehensive API.

The same applies to the Android app—which facilitates the direct transfer of photos to the gallery (both automatically on a schedule and manually)—which I coded myself, albeit with the assistance and partial support of Google AI Studio.

To achieve greater digital independence, I host this entire „architecture“ on a Raspberry Pi 5 equipped with two hard drives, running within a private local environment—meaning no external cloud services and no recurring costs.

Allgemein

Februar 2025

Cash book WebApp

Cash book with AI to scan, analyze and book without effort

As the use of AI becomes more important, I wanted to create a small test project to see how well openAI Vision works and what the costs are for image recognition. This has now resulted in an application that offers real added value for me and many other people.

Yes, there are already plenty of cash book apps, but my cash book app uses AI to recognize what has been bought. The most annoying part of a cash book is always writing down and typing in purchases. And yes, every REWE, LIDL, ALDI & Co app offers us digital receipts, but unfortunately always in the respective store app. You can’t get an overview of a household, for example, that way.

And these are exactly the things that annoy me.

Both the typing and the store connection. The cash book webapp enables you to record purchases using a photo of the receipt and immediately assign them to a cash book. The receipts are retained digitally and can be viewed and downloaded at any time.

Cash books can also be used jointly (e.g. in a household). The use goes beyond simply recording receipts and evaluating budgets or statistics, because the sharing function enables the participants of a cash book (at an event where different people buy or buy things) to split the cash book and very easily calculate who has to pay how much and to whom. However, this is still determined using classic mathematics, without AI.

März 2023

Reminder App as a training project for agile software development

1.123 / 5.000

The app was basically started as a training project. The idea behind it was to create an app that could have various functions. The participants of the training put themselves in the position of the product owner and were then asked to jointly design and prioritize which functions the app should have per iteration.

I programmed many functions in advance (also in agile mode). They can be activated using feature flags, so that participants only had to wait 2-3 days for the new function, depending on their wishes. The training is over, I am still using the app.

So if you are interested in training in agile software development, please feel free to get in touch. The target group is not developers, but normal people who want to understand how agile software development actually works in real life.

What does the app actually do? – you can use the app to remember things, especially products. Then evaluate them for yourself and then, when you see the product again in the store and only know: „I know it“, but no longer „was it good or not?“, you can look it up in the app.

E-Commerce Consulting, E-Commerce Projects

November 2020

Adobe Experience Manager Sites Business Practitioner

Certification „Adobe Experience Manager Sites Business Practitioner“

E-Commerce Consulting, Education

September 2018

professional scrum product owner

Certification as professional SCRUM Product Owner via scrum.org

E-Commerce Consulting, Training and Development

Dezember 2017

Google Skill and Facebook Chatbot

google_assistant_chatbot_in_facebook
Chatbots and their embedding in Google, Amazon or Facebook have been all the rage for some time. The future of digital assistants is already here, it’s just that they still need to get a little better.

In order to get the difficulties, challenges and possible templates for further projects, I created an assistant or chatbot. The source for the data is roboter-testportal.de (see robot test portal), as images and texts are already available here. The anchor point of the bot is Dialogflow.

This control center accepts the requests from the various channels such as Google Assistant or Facebook and then forwards them (after evaluating the appropriate intent) to a web server (webhook). The webhook creates the response in the requested channel format and returns the result as a JSON response.

The output is then again via Dialogflow in the requesting channel.

I see the following as key results and findings:

Understanding the intent mechanics Playing out logic in different channels
Producing the correct JSON formatting for the individual channels
Creating and launching Google Skill and Facebook Messenger Bot

The diagram shows the implemented workflow. All channels are bundled via Dialogflow (formerly api.ai).
google_assistant_chatbot_in_facebook_working_principle
Requests, regardless of the channel, come in here and are translated into intents by the existing AI or NLP engine. The processing of the intents themselves takes place in the backend/webhook. The result determined there is sent back to the sender by Dialogflow. This means that you can basically consolidate all requests in one logic. This has the advantage that you don’t have to process adjustments, extensions or bug fixing in different software solutions.

The programmatic implementation of response determination also makes sense because nobody really wants to manually enter new responses or content in Dialogflow. That would work too, but it is much more complex, especially if you want to display it for 1-n channels.

E-Commerce Consulting, E-Commerce Projects

Dezember 2016

Certification „Adobe AEM 6 Business-Practitioner“

certificate_aem_business_practitioner The “AEM 6 Business Practitioner” exam was successfully completed in December 2016. The Business Practitioner certificate teaches the basic functions, use, structural design and options of the individual tools of the Adobe Cloud solution, in particular the CRM “Adobe Experience Manager”.

The main content of the certification consists in understanding the technical structure and technical options of the AEM system, which functions are possible and how they can be set up. The Business Practitioner is thus given the tools to act as a consultant for the Adobe AEM product at a business level.

E-Commerce Consulting, E-Commerce Projects

August 2016

News-Feed Aggregator „Newshelden“

Newshelden (Web und App) - all news for your topic
The News-Feed aggregator Newshelden.de is collecting news from more than 60 national (german) and international news-feeds. User may create their own topics with the representing keywords – we collect the news.

The newshelden-platform is an upgrade of the formerly developed Refugees-Germany-platform – but it deals with more information and with more than only one topic.

As well as for the refugee-project I developed an native Android-App, which works in more or less the same way as the mobile website (but also in offline-mode). Major benefit of using the App is, that the App is working as a kind of archive, because within that App, no news oder information will be automatically deleted. So people may monitor the change of tonality and information given, according their own topics. To make it more easy to start, the App offers some topics as first choice for the first usage.

I wish you fun and more information-transparency by using the App or the website – so feel free to send me an email if you have any concerns. Please consider, I develop website and App in my spare time, so I do not have unlimit time and budget for further steps…
[bis]today[/bis]

E-Commerce Projects, Self-Employment (spare time)

Juli 2016

Scrapbook for Cigarett-Pack Images

scapbook for shocking cigarett-pack images
It’s about time to be able to collect the shocking cigarett-pack pictures in some kind of a scrapbook. I had that idea since about 2014, as I first saw that shocking images on cigarett-packs. Now, I developed a native android App, to collect and share my pictures.

It’s easy. At the first start of the App, it downloads all available templates. Users are able to swipe through the templates. Once the user finds a templates matching with a real picture of a cigarett-pack image, he can make a picture with the camera – the own picture ist directly saved instead of the template.

To keep it exciting, users can share their own album with all other users while they can see the progress of collecting of all other collectors using the App.

Present time, the App is free of any commercials, only in german and only available as downoad from the „Zixie“ Preview-Page.

Self-Employment (spare time)

September 2015

News-Feed Aggregator about „Refugees in Germany“

The topic „refugees“ won´t be a short-time topic. For me it was not enough, to read news from only one or two media, so I decided, to aggregate the news-feeds from more then 10 different press-media an display them in a single page, just as a timeline. To complete my view I integrated not only german-speaking news, even english news and press releases are collected within the site. The website refugess-germany.de is free of commercials, to help anybody to stay in the picture.[bis]today[/bis]

Self-Employment (spare time)

August 2015

Business Modell and Pilot-Project for a innovative Display-Marketing-Platform

SPOTvertising is some kind of a new and innovative Display-Marketing platform. The idea as well as the complete realization and implementation was done in 2015. SPOTvertising combines Display-Marketing with free WLAN-Hotspots for local targeting and local commercials other then print. Customers can upload their display-ads and decide, in which of the connected WLAN Hotspots the ads should be displayed. The pilot-project was ignited in Oct 2015, with one single free WLAN Hotspot, to ensure propper functionality and to test resonance of people connecting the free WLAN. Later, if I have the proof of resonance and customer engagement, the project might be easily rolled out over an unlimited amount of WLAN-Hotspots.[bis]today[/bis]

E-Commerce Projects, Self-Employment (spare time)

Mai 2015

Leadership-Training

PCM Process Communication Model

Three day seminar „Process Communication Model“. The communication model helps to understand the way, people communicate with each other. I learned about myself, why I react as I do, and why other people act and re-act as they do. Finally the seminar is the first step to actively manage the communiation, reaching own conversion-goals without to pique the dialogue partner.

Training and Development

April 2015

Senior E-Commerce Engineer

elboratum GmbH is a munich consultancy with focus on e-commerce, digitalization and multi/ cross-channel commerce. My responsibilies are:

Projectmanagement for several (often parallel running) projects. Leading in creating business-models, calculation auf business-plans, concepting of websites and onlineshops
Coaching and operative execution of online-marketing strategy and online-marketing campaigns in almost any kind of online and performance advertising for clients and spare-time projects
Conception of websites and webshops with different detail-levels for clients
Coaching of more than 20 retailers, from the first business-idea to the go-live and setup of first online/ cross-channel marketing campaigns (reatailers from almost every branche)
Development of several internally used tools (time-tracking, smartvoting, multich-channel-tracking of customer journey, etc.)
Acting as coach for the bevh-certifed „E-Commerce Manager“ – advanced training course

the contract is a full-time-contract.[bis]today[/bis]

E-Commerce Consulting

März 2015

Platform to join media

Couno.de - vereint Bilder und Videos von Urlaub oder Veranstaltung Couno.de is a platform, in which different users can upload media (pictures, videos) from an event, they visited together. This time, everybody shares its videos and pictures, but couno.de joins them again, to get a wider view onto an event, with the pictures of everybody joined in on the platform. The platform is able to track the geo-coordinates of the images so it becomes possible to plott a complete journey with map-display and innovative presentation-mode. To make the upload as easy as possible, I created a Java-Upload-Tool for desktop-PC and a native android app.[bis]today[/bis]

E-Commerce Projects, Self-Employment (spare time)

August 2014

Conception, planning, realization and maintaining an affiliate platform „Roboter-Testportal“

Roboter-Testportal | Aggregation von Testberichten zu Haushaltsrobotern
The „Roboter-Testportal“ is an affiliate portal. I summarize the comments and reviews of different home-robots to give an overview about their performance and test-reports, so people do not have to read a lot of different websites to summarize and find a decission, which roboter to buy. I aggregate a lot of test-reviews to give the visitor the best content about each roboter.[bis]today[/bis]

E-Commerce Projects, Self-Employment (spare time)

Januar 2014

Communication training – pyramidial presentation

PEP - Pyramidiales Präsentieren
Two-day seminar. Usage of differnet techniques to create meaningful presentations with an understandable and logic structure. The pyramidial presentation method can be used to structure projects, conversations, negotiations and presentations.

E-Commerce Consulting, Training and Development

Januar 2014

Advanced Training in using the web- prototyping tool Axure

Axure Zertifikat
Two-day introduction and training in the prototyping software „Axure“. Axure is beeing used to create wireframes, process-visualization and clickdummies for websites and webshops prior to develop them as real HTML-Version.

E-Commerce Consulting, Training and Development

Juni 2013

Conception, business-modelling and realization of Smartviewer.de

Smartviewer acts as an innovative e-commerce and multichannel platform to digitalize shop windows of physical stores. Main innovation is, that passersby may interact with the shop window. The Smartphone of the passersby becomes to a virtual remote control for the window – so they can control the window-display and the content within by their own device. But thats not enough – I thought the process some steps further to make it more senseful to interact with the shop window. Pilot-phase started in july 2014.[bis]today[/bis]

E-Commerce Consulting, E-Commerce Projects, Self-Employment (spare time)

April 2013

Communication-Training

Two-day seminar to increase my communication skills for diplomatic conversations. Content of the seminar was the training of different techniques to understand the reason and motivation of the conversion partner, to react adequately and conversation-goal-oriented.

E-Commerce Consulting, Training and Development

November 2012

Multiimprint – centralized administration and multi-usage of one imprint in several different websites

Because of the fact that I own and manage several different websites, I got the problem loosing control about the imprints on the different websites (some sites are abandoned, others are new projects). I decided to create a tool to administrate only one imprint with all neccessary data and use that in any website I run later on. Multiimprint is useable for 1-n domains for 1-n clients and provides proteced data to any specific domain in realtime.[bis]today[/bis]

E-Commerce Projects, Self-Employment (spare time)

September 2012

Concept and realization of a congress survey voting tool

Smartvoting is an alternative voting-tool for surves at large events with a lot of guests and participants. The Smartphone of any guest itself becomes the voting-device, the result-display is connected to powerpoint or any kind of website-integration. The moderator has full control about the voting, may stop and reset the result as well as closing the survey. The amount of participants is unlimited. Idea and realization within the scope of my contract with elaboratum GmbH – multiple deployments in live environments are beeing done sucessfully.[bis]today[/bis]

E-Commerce Consulting, E-Commerce Projects

Januar 2011

Creation of a location based services und mobile WebApp-platform

Conception and business-modelling of lokality.de. Lokality.de was created to help small business companies with just a small website to deliver a smartphone-optimized view to web-visitors. Cliensts of lokality.de could create their own „smartphone-ready“ website-profile, including colors and icons. The content was scraped from the original web-page and included into the lokality.de-profile. By that wy, customers got a smartphone-optimized view of their own website, without much efford and without the multiple management of content.

The complete business model was designed for a duration of two years, the market development of responsive websites was obvious – after two years, there would be no further need for such kind of mobile website display.[bis]today[/bis]

E-Commerce Projects, Self-Employment (spare time)

März 2010

Consultant at elaboratum GmbH, Munich

elboratum GmbH is a munich consultancy with focus on e-commerce, digitalization and multi/ cross-channel commerce.
Main focus are the creation of digital business concepts, support in digital transformation of companies, including the calculation of profitability and marketing-performance. Continuing the tasks and responsibilites as Senior E-Commerce Engineer[bis]Jan 2015[/bis]

E-Commerce Consulting

September 2009

E-Commerce Consulting and Online-Marketing

Consulting and realization of Online-Marketing campaigns for small business retailers. The self-employment is a side-job to help small companies to keep alive in the digitakl and online market. Main objectives are:

provide pragmatic help and fast success for small projects
enabling clients to act on their own (choaching and training)
realization of functional requirements in a small but efficient way

Main part of the self-employed tasks where transfered into the elaboratum context, some clients are still coached in a very small way.[bis]March 2010[/bis]

E-Commerce Consulting, Self-Employment (spare time)

März 2009

Coaching and initiation of agile projectmanagement

Internship at adtraffic GmbH, Munich while studying. Together with a coach I initiated the agile projectmanagement method „scrum“ to manage projects and software development, created a virtual server architecture for internal test-purposes and documentation, coordinated the developer-team in Croatia.[bis]May 2009[/bis]

Internship, Training and Development

Januar 2009

WordPress development for MVV-Blog

Co-Founding and programming of the watch-blog www.mvv-blog.de. First WordPress-project with the aim to write about the local transportation agency. Basically developed as SEO-Test site, the blog grew to an actively commented and well visited website – and is still beeing used by myself to test some local SEO-strategies or recently developed WordPress-plugins.[bis]today[/bis]

E-Commerce Projects, Self-Employment (spare time)

August 2008

Realization SEO-Analysis Tool „SRPP“

Concepted and developed at the beginning of 2009. The Web-platform uses techniques like JAVA, Javascript and PHP to scrape the google search result page. Main focus was to get positions and listings for keywords in relation to my clients websites. The tool did all the scraping and crawling on its own, the web-view was used as maangement- and reporting-interface. With the german market entry of tools like SISTRIX or silmilar and in combination with the always changing google listing algorythms, I stoppted further development of the tool, because of the lack of time to permanently adjust the routines and logics.[bis]October 2013[/bis]

E-Commerce Projects, Self-Employment (spare time)

Juli 2008

Realization SEO-text optimization-tool

OptiHead is a small software, which analyses a given text in order to find the best headline for the text. The tool provides some keyword-calculations and visualizes the matching of a given headline to the given text. OptiHead is primarily designed as agency-tool for online-editors. While increasing my WordPress-development scope, I made a plugin of the code to integrate it in any wordpress-installation.

E-Commerce Projects, Self-Employment (spare time)

Dezember 2007

Search engine optimization of online-shops and websites

As part of the spare-time self-employment I coach and train clients to write search-engine-friendly content. I also create on-page optimization for small business companies on demand, which includes the programming of SEO-basics such as clean code, meta-information-management or landing-page design and implementation.[bis]today[/bis]

E-Commerce Projects, Self-Employment (spare time)

September 2007

Internship at Tradedoubler AG

Internship at tradedoubler AG (one of the leading affiliate networks across europe) while studying. Main tasks where publisher-acquisition, website-analysis as well as market- and product-research. I was responsible to create the newsletter for clients of the TD Toolbox, acted as second level-support for the web-tracking-integration and handling of the TD-Toolbox software itself.[bis]Feb 2008[/bis]

Internship

August 2007

Founding of conmasys

Conmasys was founded as stand-alone CMS. As conmasys was created and developed, the german market concerning content management systems was very rare. Therefore I decided to develop my own CMS, sold it to customers and optimized the system for all known SEO-purposes. The development decreased with my increasing consulting activites and with the market entry of more functional CM-Systems like Typo3, WordPress or Joomla. Since 2011 the conmasys CMS is abandoned and replaced by WordPress but the label „Conmasys“ is still in use for all self-employment ativites.[bis]today[/bis]

E-Commerce Projects, Self-Employment (spare time)

Juli 2007

Founding business-idea „netask.de“

Netask.de was the realization of the busniess-idea of „online surveys“. At the beginning of 2006 there where 3 or 4 relevant competitors in germany, so I developed the business-model and realized the web-survey, which could be easily integrated in any other website (which was the main selling proposition). The realization was the result of my participation in the munich business-plan competition whily studying business-informatics in munich. The project has been ceased to get more capacities for more profitable projects – the domain ist still in my account… you never know… [bis]October 2013[/bis]

E-Commerce Projects, Self-Employment (spare time)

Juli 2007

Honorable discharge from military service

Honorable discharge from military service after 2 years paid leave of absence to complete my study in business-informatics in munich and after 10 years of active duty at the german air force.

Military career

Februar 2007

Successful participation at Munich businessplan competition

Sucessful participation at the munich businessplan competition with the idea of online-surveys, which can be easily integrated in any website, without loosing functionality or layout. The project has ceased Oct 2013, the label and domain is still in my account.

E-Commerce Projects, Self-Employment (spare time)

Dezember 2006

UNIcert-III english

Training and completion of the UNIcert III-certificate in english at the University of applied sciences in Munich.

Training and Development

Oktober 2006

Newsletter-development und publishing

Creating and publishing of the marketmarket.eu – newsletter (www.marketmarket.eu). Main tasks where layouting and coding the HTML/Text-Version of the newsletter, management of the delivery, tracking and reporting afterwards.[bis]October 2008[/bis]

E-Commerce Projects, Self-Employment (spare time)

Oktober 2006

Starting my own business

Start of my own business as „self-employment“ for IT-Services, e-commerce consulting and online-marketing operations. Primary fields of work are digital-consulting, search engine optimization, performance marketing, web- and mobile development. [bis]today[/bis]

E-Commerce Consulting, Self-Employment (spare time)

Oktober 2005

Study business informatics

Study of business informatics at the University of applied sciences, Munich. Final degree: Bachelor of Science, Rate: 2.1[bis]July 2009[/bis]

Education

Juni 2005

paid leave of absence from military service

After 10 years of active duty I was cleared for the paid leave of absence from military service to start and complete a civil study. The complete study was financed by the forces, as compensation for the 10 years duty.

Military career

Dezember 2004

MCP – Microsoft Certified Professional

Microsoft Certified Professional: management and support for a Windows-2003-Server Domain.

Training and Development

November 2003

LINUX Basic-Training

Introduction and basic training in the linux system „Debian-Linux“. Contents are basic filestructure, console commands and basic understanding of the linux system-architecture. I used a lot of those learnings for my own server-architecture afterwards, as well as for the setup of some Raspberry PI – Systems years later.

Training and Development

Februar 2002

Advanced Air-Combat Training for Fightercontrol

military ATC, Combat Ready
Advanced training in aircraft control for air-combat in the scope of tactical air defense. Finalized with the „combat ready“ – qualification.

Military career, Training and Development

November 2000

Airforce Officer Leadership Training

Ability to lead groups up to 30 members in object-defense szenarios. Advanced teaching methods.

Military career, Training and Development

November 1999

Qualification to military air traffic control

military Air Traffic Control
The schooling is about the tactical radar assistance and guidance from military aircraft by voice radio through any kind of airspace to fulfill a spcific mission goal. Final rate 2,97 [bis]June 2000[/bis]

Military career

August 1999

Language training english

The english training was part of the officers-traning, finished with the NATO-Language profile 3332.

Military career, Training and Development

Oktober 1998

Airforce officer qualification

Airforce officer training at the airforce academy in Fürstenfeldbruck (near munich), finished 1999, rate 2.5[bis]August 1999[/bis]

Military career

Mai 1996

Airforce corporal qualification

Airforce corporal training, final rate: 2.2[bis]Juli 1996[/bis]

Military career

September 1995

Enter the forces (German Air Force)

Luftwaffe - Mig-29 und F16
Entry into the German Air Force.

Military career

September 1989

High School graduate with A-Level

Graduate High-School with A-Level[bis]Juli 1995[/bis]

Education

Alexander Käppler

Categories

Vita

Coud Gallery

Cash book WebApp

Reminder App as a training project for agile software development

Adobe Experience Manager Sites Business Practitioner

professional scrum product owner

Google Skill and Facebook Chatbot

Certification „Adobe AEM 6 Business-Practitioner“

News-Feed Aggregator „Newshelden“

Scrapbook for Cigarett-Pack Images

News-Feed Aggregator about „Refugees in Germany“

Business Modell and Pilot-Project for a innovative Display-Marketing-Platform

Leadership-Training

Senior E-Commerce Engineer

Platform to join media

Conception, planning, realization and maintaining an affiliate platform „Roboter-Testportal“

Communication training – pyramidial presentation

Advanced Training in using the web- prototyping tool Axure

Conception, business-modelling and realization of Smartviewer.de

Communication-Training

Multiimprint – centralized administration and multi-usage of one imprint in several different websites

Concept and realization of a congress survey voting tool

Creation of a location based services und mobile WebApp-platform

Consultant at elaboratum GmbH, Munich

E-Commerce Consulting and Online-Marketing

Coaching and initiation of agile projectmanagement

WordPress development for MVV-Blog

Realization SEO-Analysis Tool „SRPP“

Realization SEO-text optimization-tool

Search engine optimization of online-shops and websites

Internship at Tradedoubler AG

Founding of conmasys

Founding business-idea „netask.de“

Honorable discharge from military service

Successful participation at Munich businessplan competition

UNIcert-III english

Newsletter-development und publishing

Starting my own business

Study business informatics

paid leave of absence from military service

MCP – Microsoft Certified Professional

LINUX Basic-Training

Advanced Air-Combat Training for Fightercontrol

Airforce Officer Leadership Training

Qualification to military air traffic control

Language training english

Airforce officer qualification

Airforce corporal qualification

Enter the forces (German Air Force)

High School graduate with A-Level