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Akzente.IT | Cologne, Germany

Thomas Krause

Cloud-native architecture and applied AI for complex domains.

I help teams turn demanding business processes into secure Azure and .NET platforms, AI-assisted workflows and maintainable engineering systems. The sweet spot: projects where architecture, delivery pressure and domain complexity all matter.

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20+ years
consulting, architecture and lead development
Doctor of Engineering
PhD in AI diagnostics research, summa cum laude
Azure + .NET
secure, scalable cloud-native delivery
Artificial Intelligence
Applied AI for complex domains

Project acquisition focus

Senior architecture support for systems that have to work in practice, not just on slides.

Akzente.IT is the consulting practice of Thomas Krause, Doctor of Engineering: architect, senior consultant, lead developer and founder. I work with companies that need reliable delivery across cloud platforms, enterprise web applications, AI integrations and data-heavy workflows with regulatory constraints. I bring deep technical expertise with proven experience across domains.

Cloud-Native Architecture

Designing secure, scalable, and highly available systems on Microsoft Azure. From infrastructure-as-code with Bicep to event-driven microservices, serverless functions, and comprehensive DevOps pipelines.

  • Microsoft Azure
  • Microservices
  • Event-Driven
  • Bicep / IaC
  • CI/CD
  • Security-by-Design

Artificial Intelligence

Applying AI and machine learning in complex, high-stakes domains. From large language models for automated reporting to custom ML pipelines for genomics, with a focus on trust.

  • LLMs
  • Microsoft Foundry
  • Deep Learning
  • RAG
  • Agent Frameworks

Enterprise Web Platforms

Full-stack development of complex, high-traffic web applications. Modern frontends with Vue 3 and TypeScript, robust backends with ASP.NET Core, and end-to-end quality assurance with automated testing.

  • .NET / C#
  • Azure Web Apps
  • ASP.NET Core
  • TypeScript
  • Vue 3
  • REST APIs
  • Playwright / E2E

Technologies

Tools of the Trade

Languages

  • C#
  • TypeScript
  • JavaScript
  • Python

Backend & APIs

  • Microsoft Azure
  • ASP.NET Core
  • REST
  • OpenAPI
  • Azure Functions
  • Azure API Management
  • Apache Airflow
  • Microservices

Security

  • Cryptography
  • Azure Key Vault
  • OAuth 2.0
  • OpenID Connect (OIDC)
  • Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD)
  • Azure Front Door

Frontend

  • Vue 3
  • Vite
  • HTML5
  • CSS / SCSS

DevOps & CI/CD

  • Azure DevOps
  • GitHub Actions
  • Bicep / ARM
  • Application Insights
  • Azure Monitor
  • Docker

AI & ML

  • Microsoft Foundry
  • OpenAI API
  • Claude Code
  • OpenAI Codex
  • GitHub Copilot

Databases

  • SQL Server
  • Redis
  • SQLite
  • Entity Framework
  • SQL

Selected work

Projects that show the operating range.

Since 2019 | Energy sector

Sales platform for a major energy provider

Technical leadership in the continuous development of a secure Azure-hosted sales portal with CMS integration, complex forms, service interfaces, high availability, caching, monitoring and DevOps responsibility.

  • .NET
  • Azure
  • Vue 3
  • Security-by-design

Since 2024 | Horizon Europe

GenDAI AI-assisted microbiome diagnostics

Architecture and coordination work for an international research and development consortium building an AI-supported, regulatory-aware diagnostics platform for personalized medicine.

  • AI/ML
  • Microservices
  • IVDR
  • Genomics

Oct-Nov 2025 | Energy sector

AI-assisted search with Azure AI Foundry

Integration of an intelligent search feature into an existing enterprise portal, using Azure AI Foundry and grounding to answer customer questions with contextual portal content.

  • GPT-5 mini
  • Azure AI Foundry
  • REST
  • TypeScript

2023 | Energy sector

Vehicle document recognition and extraction

Designed and built an Azure AI solution for scanning vehicle registration documents and extracting structured information using Document Intelligence and Custom Vision models.

  • Azure Document Intelligence
  • Azure Functions
  • REST
  • DSGVO

2023 | Developer tooling

AI coding extension and automated code transformation

Concept, development and publication of a Visual Studio Code extension that applies custom GPT-4 powered transformations to selected source code.

  • TypeScript
  • OpenAI API
  • GPT-4
  • VS Code

2023-2025 | Lab diagnostics

Automated genomics diagnostics platform

Development leadership for a platform that analyzes genomics-based diagnostic data with AI, event-driven processing and LLM-supported reporting workflows.

  • Python
  • LLMs
  • Kafka
  • Airflow

Academic edge

Research as a practical amplifier.

My doctorate at the FernUniversität in Hagen focused on automated AI and big data approaches for genomics-based diagnostics and was awarded summa cum laude. Since 2025, I have pursued a habilitation around AI-supported, data-intensive systems for medical diagnostics.

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Podcast

DevCouch keeps the engineering voice human.

I co-founded DevCouch, a German-language entertainment podcast by freelance software developers for .NET developers. It is where current tooling, .NET, Azure, AI and developer culture get discussed with enough opinion to stay awake.

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Latest episodes

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Contact

Bring the complex project. I will bring the structure.

Best fit: cloud-native platforms, AI-assisted product work, regulated diagnostics, enterprise portals, architecture rescue, lead development and senior technical advisory.

contact@akzente.it

German native. English and Spanish fluent. Based in Cologne, working on-site or remote depending on the project.

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