Dan ⁂

Designed and built a system to distribute real-time (live) metadata for radio broadcasts. ARD Eventhub serves as the backbone of internal, event-based data sharing across ARD Sounds radio stations and ARD’s shared broadcast infrastructure. Developed in-house at SWR Audio Lab, with the source code released as open source on GitHub.

Launched a direct integration with the ARD Audiothek on Amazon Alexa in January 2020, bringing all ARD radio livestreams into a single high-quality offering. The service reaches millions of monthly active users with steadily growing engagement ever since. Not long after the service was also expanded to the Google Assistant platform.

Developed and launched RAKI, an in-house, AI-assisted data processing and voice-output system designed to regionalize live broadcasts. Built via a SWR/WDR partnership to meet public-broadcaster security standards, the system automates localized audio production for eight ARD pop radio stations during joint evening and overnight programming.

Worked on the relaunch of SWR's radio app portfolio. Following market analysis and a tender process, our team developed the new app in close collaboration with Berlin-based agency tbo, working directly with existing users to reflect their needs. On the backend side, I built SWR Radiohub, a central system that consolidates all metadata and delivers it to the apps via highly scalable APIs.

Developed a chatbot for Facebook Messenger and swr3.de during the early, experimental days of conversational AI. The project was nominated for the German Radio Award (Deutscher Radiopreis) 2019 in the “Best Innovation” category. An exciting pioneering phase that delivered valuable learnings in chatbot design and user interaction.