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Christoph Klocker

Freelance CTO & AI Architect

Dornbirn, Vorarlberg, Austria · 20+ years Cloud & Software Engineering

Christoph Klocker — Freelance CTO and AI Architect based in Dornbirn, Vorarlberg, Austria

About

Cloud & AI technology leader based in Dornbirn, Vorarlberg, with 20+ years building and operating production systems on AWS across IoT, SaaS/PaaS, and high-traffic consumer platforms.

Current focus: AI consulting and IT consulting for companies in Vorarlberg and the DACH region — Generative AI and LLM orchestration on Amazon Bedrock, plus hands-on Agentic AI (orchestrating autonomous, tool-using agents with LangChain, LangGraph, LangSmith and DeepAgents).

Deep experience designing secure, scalable cloud architectures, leading small high-output teams, and shipping resilient products end-to-end. Strong background in Elixir/Phoenix and Ruby on Rails with a pragmatic, product-driven mindset.

Skills

AI & Generative AI
Generative AI / LLM Orchestration Agentic AI / Autonomous Agents LangChain / LangGraph / LangSmith LangChain DeepAgents Amazon Bedrock Prompt Engineering
Cloud & Backend
Elixir / Phoenix / LiveView Ruby on Rails Python AWS (ECS, RDS, Lambda, S3) Azure PostgreSQL Docker CI/CD
IoT & Leadership
IoT / MQTT / LoRaWAN System Architecture Team Leadership CTO-as-a-Service

AWS ML & GenAI Credentials

Developing Generative AI Solutions Optimizing Foundation Models Developing Machine Learning Solutions Responsible AI Practices Exploring AI Use Cases & Applications Fundamentals of ML & AI

Technologies

Elixir
Phoenix
Rails
AWS
PostgreSQL
Docker
Amazon Bedrock

Worked With

Featured Projects

rockstead.ai

Founder / Developer — Generative AI — 2026–present

Multi-model LLM comparison platform on Amazon Bedrock — orchestrating 15+ models (Claude, Llama, Mistral) with document-context prompting and real-time cost tracking. Agent orchestration with LangChain / LangGraph / DeepAgents. Full-stack Elixir/Phoenix/LiveView + AWS Bedrock.

Amazon Bedrock • 15+ LLMs • Real-time cost tracking

city-monitor.com

Founder / CTO / Product Lead — 2019–2026

Real-time Smart City platform serving municipalities with live dashboards, sensor ingestion, alerting, and white-label PWAs. Full-stack Elixir/Phoenix/LiveView running on AWS.

700+ sensors • 10+ municipal customers • 99.9%+ availability

Safe Software — FME Cloud PaaS

Cloud Architect — 2012–2014

Sole architect of an AWS-based PaaS offering for FME Server, enabling self-service provisioning, automated scaling, and usage-based billing.

Experience Highlights

2026 – present

Founder / Developer — Generative & Agentic AI

rockstead.ai (Vedanova e.U.)

Multi-model LLM comparison platform on Amazon Bedrock. Hands-on agent orchestration with LangChain, LangGraph, LangSmith and DeepAgents.

2019 – 2026

CTO / Product Lead

Weavs GmbH (city-monitor.com)

Building Smart City IoT platform. AWS architecture, Elixir/Phoenix development, team leadership.

2018 – 2020

Interim CTO

Novem Gold AG

Built tokenization platform for gold including smart contracts and hardened AWS infrastructure.

2014 – 2017

Senior Engineer

Optoro (US)

Performance engineering for Rails-based reverse logistics platforms on AWS.

2011 – 2012

Senior Engineer

HouseTrip (UK)

Scalability work for high-traffic vacation rental platform.

Testimonials

"Christoph is a top quality lead Rails architect. His technical knowledge on Rails, AWS, databases and web services is vast and up to date. When presented with a complex problem, Christoph brings more to the table than just development skills and can quickly understand requirements and then design and deliver a rock solid solution quickly and efficiently."
Stewart Harper
VP Product Development, Safe Software
"I had the opportunity to work with Christoph and found him to be a very bright and talented co-worker. He quickly identified himself as one of those few in which you invest a high degree of trust and reliance on his day-to-day implementation decisions."
Kevin Benz
Technical Leader

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