When critical technology is stuck.

I take over high-stakes technology programs. Especially when legacy data, internal politics, and regulatory pressure have outgrown the original plan. AI is one tool; delivery is the mandate.

Operator. YC alum. Turnaround and technology executive.

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The Reality of Delivery

Large technology programs rarely fail because the strategy deck is weak. They fail when legacy data, vendor promises, internal politics, and regulatory exposure meet a deadline the organization can no longer move.

That is where I operate: after the easy answers are gone, before failure becomes the accepted outcome.

I bring Silicon Valley execution into traditional, high-consequence environments. Startup meets enterprise, without external consultants.

I take responsibility for the constraint, make the data usable, narrow the scope to the smallest live slice, and harden the system until executives, operators, and control functions can rely on it. AI matters when it helps the work ship.

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How I Work

  1. Diagnose the constraint.

    Start with data quality, availability, permissions, and the rulebook before choosing a model.

  2. Ship the controlled slice.

    Put the smallest useful system into production fast enough for reality to test it.

  3. Harden for operation.

    Make it robust enough for users, audit, compliance, and the next organizational change.

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Proof of Work

Production-grade AI where data is messy and compliance is non-negotiable — without consultants.

HSBC London (GB)

Banking: regulated cutovers in hours.

Context
Tier-1 banking. Partial S/4HANA cutovers usually mean weeks of systems-integrator work across legacy data, approvals, and change windows.
Execution
Built autonomous agents that compose and check migration logic end-to-end. Live in production. Cutovers in hours, not weeks, with no external consultants in the loop. Eliminating hundreds of consultant hours.
EMCO Hallein (AT)

Machine Tools: reliable answers from legacy data.

Context
€200M machine-tool manufacturer. Decades of maintenance records and machine telemetry were trapped in formats neither technicians nor downstream systems could reliably use.
Execution
Built the AI & Innovation function from zero. Converted fragmented machine data into a searchable operating surface for service teams. First-time-right answers in seconds; customer and employee satisfaction rose together.
Rheinmetall Düsseldorf (DE)

Defense: resilient communication under constraint.

Context
European defense. Highly-available, cryptographically resilient data communication under classified-grade constraints and non-negotiable integrity requirements.
Execution
Drove joint research mandates with TU München and ETH Zürich. Specifications translated operational, availability, and integrity thresholds into work engineers could build against.
YC Mountain View (US)

Deep-Tech: patented emotion-recognition IP.

Context
Co-founded Going Ninja, a deep-tech company built around patented emotion-recognition technology. From patent to global market standard.
Execution
Y Combinator S18 alum. Raised $80M in venture capital. Exit and integration to Volkswagen delivered without losing the product core.

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Operating Notes

I keep operating notes on problems worth solving: AI in constrained environments, turnarounds, and the discipline of making complex systems simple.

No weekly fluff and no recycled commentary. I send a note only when there is a concrete build, decision, or operating lesson worth an executive's time.

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Global Pulse

What's on the operator's desk this cycle: two articles, one Reddit thread, one shipped repository per hub. Pipeline runs daily across a hand-picked source set; drafts are written by Claude (Anthropic API) against an operator-voice prompt and auto-published. Staging gates production: a bad day on staging keeps yesterday's view live.

London

GB · 2 signals
  1. Article Today

    Microsoft's May Patch Tuesday: 30 Critical CVEs, No Zero-Days — But the Patch Window Is the Exposure

    Microsoft's May 2026 Patch Tuesday dropped 30 critical CVEs — the largest critical count in recent cycles — with no confirmed zero-days actively exploited at release time. The risk window is the gap between release and enterprise deployment: attackers reverse-engineer patches within 24–72 hours to build exploits targeting unpatched systems. For regulated European enterprises running legacy Windows estates with extended change-approval cycles, this Patch Tuesday materially widens the attack surface this week.

    Operator implication. If your patch approval cycle runs longer than 72 hours, triage the 30 critical CVEs today and push emergency change requests for any that touch RCE or privilege escalation vectors — your regulators will ask about patch lag if an incident follows.

    Read article →

  2. Article Today

    Google Cloud API Billing Gone Rogue: Unauthorized Usage Charges Hitting Customers with No Clear Remedy

    Multiple Google Cloud customers are reporting surging API bills from usage they did not authorize, with Google's dispute and refund process producing little resolution. The pattern — leaked or scraped API keys triggering runaway consumption charges — is not new, but Google's apparent inability to provide timely remediation is the signal here. For enterprises with Google Cloud API keys distributed across dev teams or third-party integrations, this is a live financial control failure, not a theoretical risk.

    Operator implication. Audit your Google Cloud API key inventory now — enforce per-key spend caps, rotate any key exposed in CI/CD pipelines or third-party tools, and confirm your cloud contracts define the liability boundary for unauthorized usage charges before your CFO sees an anomalous invoice.

    Read article →

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Contact

Reach me directly for a strictly confidential exchange about your current constraints. Whether it's a failing delivery or a critical data mandate - let's evaluate if I can take it over.

Felix Rascher

Palais Eschenbach
Eschenbachgasse 11
AT-1010 Vienna

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