At the core of
enterprise intelligence.
Over 25 years of building the systems enterprises run on - from model-driven platforms and distributed architectures to agentic AI infrastructure. Not just design - engineered foundations that last.
What I offer
From first assessment
to running system.
Independent technical judgement when the stakes are high.
- Technical due diligence: codebase, architecture, team and delivery risk - explained in plain language to decision makers.
- RFP / RFI support: requirements and target architecture, feasibility and risk of proposals, platform and vendor selection.
- Architecture reviews, modernization roadmaps, build-vs-buy decisions.
End to end. I design it, I build it, I ship it.
- Enterprise backends and platforms: from domain model to service in production.
- Legacy modernization without the big-bang rewrite.
- Model-driven, API-first design; distributed systems that hold up under real load.
- Hands-on throughout: I write the code and stay until it runs.
Not a chatbot demo - agents wired into your real systems.
- Agent integration into your platform: MCP servers, tool interfaces, context engineering. Starts with a working prototype.
- RAG and agent workflows on enterprise data: architecture review first, then production - governance included.
- Production-readiness plan for piloted AI features: evaluation, observability, guardrails, cost.
- AI-augmented engineering on your codebase: reviews, refactoring, prototyping with an agentic toolchain.
How we can work together
Assessment
1–4 weeks. Due diligence, architecture review, RFP evaluation. Ends with a written report and a clear recommendation.
Delivery
Project-based. Scope, architecture, implementation, production handover. One accountable person, end to end.
Retainer
Fractional architect or engineering lead. Ongoing, part-time, embedded in your team.
For larger scopes
When a project needs more capacity or adjacent expertise, I can bring in trusted specialists from my network. I stay responsible for the technical direction and remain your point of contact.
Vienna area · remote-friendly · German / English
Track record
Experience & Projects
Head of Core R&D / Principal Engineer
Braintribe - tribefire - hiconic.os
Architected and engineered a model- & metadata-driven development platform used by enterprises across Finance, Pharma, and Insurance. Led the transition into the open-source ecosystem as hiconic.os.
Enterprise Projects
Johnson & Johnson - UniCredit - SwissRe - Uniqa - Prangl
Designed and implemented high-availability distributed systems and scalable backends for global leaders across Banking, Insurance, Pharma, Logistics, and Construction sectors.
Technical Pre-Sales & Account Lead
Braintribe - global enterprise accounts
Technical lead for global enterprise accounts: RFP responses, proof-of-concepts and architecture workshops with buyers in Banking, Insurance and Pharma. The other side of the table - which is why I know what a good RFP looks like.
About
Gunther Schenk
Software Architect & Engineer
I've spent the better part of 25 years inside the engine rooms of enterprise software — not as a consultant who hands over a slidedeck and leaves, but as someone who stays until the system actually works — end to end. That means writing code, making hard architectural decisions, and occasionally arguing with myself over naming conventions at midnight.
My background is Java and model-driven architecture. My current obsession is figuring out where agentic AI fits into the messy reality of enterprise systems — not in theory, but in production.
Away from the keyboard, I'm a dad — which, it turns out, requires a similar mix of patience and debugging skills. 😉
Corventis
/Cor·ven·tis/
Cor from Latin cor, cordis - heart, core; cf. core, courage. Ventis evokes inventus / invenire - found, invented - and by ear, ventus or event: discovery with quiet motion. Together: finding the core / invention at the heart. Convent (gathering, structure) is a sound echo only, not etymology.
My product has always been the same: go to the core of a complex system and bring order and intelligence there. Always at the cor of things.
At the core of enterprise intelligence.