Voice of Aristaeus · The Cultivator of Solutions
The kind of generalist who treats cross-domain as a specialisation.
Twenty-eight years of software — Philips Medical at the start, AI-native infrastructure at the present, and a manufacturing floor sitting in the middle like a keel. The arc is Aristaeus: anticipatory innovation, cross-domain synthesis, solutions crystallised before the problem has finished asking itself.
What currently keeps him at the desk
The seats stack on purpose. Clarait funds the experiments that inform nyxCore; nyxCore runs the infrastructure Q-Records rides on; Q-Records is the first tenant that sat through every design choice and told us which ones were wrong.
Senior DevOps Architect · AI Advisor
Designs the infrastructure that lets Clarait's AI products ship reliably — CI/CD, container orchestration, the observability that tells the team what is happening when a model answers at three in the morning.
OpenFounder · Chief Architect
The orchestration brain behind eighteen products. Bootstrap, workflow engine, self-repair loop, Axiom RAG, the pantheon of personas. The program that later writes inselWerk.
OpenFounder · Product Owner
A full-stack SaaS for vinyl stores and second-hand retailers. AI-powered inventory, real-time sales KPIs, integrated event management for in-store concerts and signings.
OpenThe persona in the machine
The nyxCore persona engine keeps a record of every voice in the pantheon. Aristaeus is the one that carries Oli's register — anticipatory, cross-domain, a dreamer-who-builds. The nyxCore persona card describes the specialisations: anticipatory-innovation, cross-domain-synthesis, solution-crystallization, lateral-thinking, product-vision. Hardened by Ipcha self-check, because a visionary who refuses to be stress-tested is just a pitch deck.
Persona record · nyxCore MCP
Oli’s digital voice. Anticipatory innovator, cross-domain visionary, dreamer-who-builds. Sees solutions before others identify problems. Hardened by Ipcha self-check.
Level 20 · 196 runs · 100 % success rate · last updated nyxcore_get_personas at build time
Cross-domain synthesis, from the employment history
Aristaeus is not an aspiration. The cross-domain label is the pattern of seven distinct industries Oli has actually worked in end-to-end — long enough to be accountable in each, short enough to keep cross-pollinating. The moves below are from the CV, not curated.
Medical devices
1998 — 2004
Philips Medical Systems. Software for the equipment radiologists depend on. Six years of the fact that software can have weight.
Consumer portals
2006 — 2007
Surf Media GmbH. High-traffic billing tools, third-party API integrations. The scale year.
Media intelligence
2007 — 2014
Kantar Media GmbH. PHP Zend, Solr, OCR-on-press-clippings, AWS EC2 clusters, Android web apps. Seven years of turning noise into signal at industrial scale.
Social media · South America
2013 — 2015
Salome Media GmbH (co-founded). Social-media monitoring and product-placement analytics for Spanish-speaking markets. The first founding.
Automotive manufacturing
2014 — 2020
Druckgassysteme Wittler GmbH. Managing director. Production lines, prototype tooling, 3D printing, quotations, customer relations. Six years of running a manufacturing business end-to-end.
Back into software
2021 — 2024
S-Kon (Go microservices on GCP, Kubernetes), Travello (Mezzio exhibition apps), Hansefit (Pimcore platform, GraphQL gateway replacing legacy XML). The return.
AI-native infrastructure
2025 — now
Clarait · Q-Records · nyxCore. Three seats, one arc. Cross-domain synthesis as a specialisation.
Less a portfolio, more a trail
Six projects selected from a longer list. Every one of them has a GitHub link, a landing page, or both — no vapour. The full roster lives across the mrwind-up-bird and nyxCore-Systems GitHub accounts.
The orchestration brain
TypeScript · Next.js 16
27 tRPC routers, 90 tables, workflow engine, self-repair loop, persona engine. Chief architect role; the team ships the products that sit inside.
Voice intelligence · macOS
Rust · Tauri · TypeScript
Native desktop recorder with multi-agent intelligence — action items, summary, tone shift, translation. Cloud transcription default, local whisper.cpp opt-in, Keychain-backed keys.
Phone-native voice agent
TypeScript
Outbound + inbound voice agents grounded in the nyxCore memory graph. Recording-consent by default, escalation-by-default, autonomy opt-in per intent and per tenant.
Drop-in RAG widget
FastAPI · Qdrant · TypeScript
Embed in 5 minutes via one script tag. FastAPI + Postgres 16 + Qdrant + Redis + LiteLLM. Per-bot Fernet-encrypted credentials; per-tenant Qdrant namespacing. First of the Mini series.
Mini agency-management system
TypeScript
The paperwork backbone for a small creative agency — projects, people, invoices, time. Part of the Mini series alongside MiniRAG, MiniTik, mini-plate-editor.
SaaS for vinyl + second-hand stores
TypeScript · React · Express
Multi-tenant PostgreSQL + Redis, Dockerised deployments, AI-driven sales module. The founding B2B project that opened the Aristaeus pattern.
Credit where it belongs
The nyxCore roster is built by a team. These six are Oli’s. For the Rust-and-TypeScript stack that sits underneath — LIP, SwarmWire, ArchReview, Cartographer, CKB, Onboarding Tutor, and Morphon — meet Lisa. For data-sovereignty and legal counsel in Warsaw, meet Martyna. Smaller tools in Oli’s repo not featured above: ipcha-mistabra (the adversarial-verification implementation), md2pdf-mermaid, MiniTik, mini-plate-editor, Odin, and a dozen client-landing pages.
Public GitHub: github.com/mrwind-up-bird · Org: github.com/nyxCore-Systems
Where the composure comes from
Three details from the CV that hiring-template parsers will miss. They explain more about the work style than the stack list does.
Father of three. The longest-running deployment he maintains — three small entities that started stateless, picked up goals he did not specify, and are approaching full autonomy on their own definitions of correctness. No rollback, graceful degradation throughout. The place where he learned that the best agents eventually stop needing the orchestrator.
The composure-under-pressure line in the CV is not a metaphor. Years of professional kitchens taught the skill of ten-things-at-once with no dropped plates. It is the same skill as running a production incident at 2 a.m.
Six years running Druckgassysteme Wittler. Production lines, tooling, 3D printing, customer relations, quotations. The detour that made nyxCore possible — shipping is a habit you learn in a place where broken things stop a line.
Technology in use, not on a shelf
Languages
Infra · DevOps
Data · AI
How to start a conversation
Oli reads and answers his own inbox. For nyxCore-product inquiries, use the main landing's contact form; it routes to the right seat. Everything else — direct.
oli@nyxcore.cloud
Project work, investor conversations, partnerships. Two-day reply window, usually faster.
/in/oliver-baer-0436b753
Official CV surface, connection requests, recruiter channels.
GitHub
mrwind-up-bird
Public repos, open-source, the mrwind-up-bird handle. Read the code before the pitch.
CV · PDF
Curriculum Vitae
One-page-per-side, timeline on page 2. Updated April 2026.
Ipcha note: Oli is the founder and primary engineer. He is not a nine-person executive team. If your project needs a twenty-seat consultancy, this is the wrong page; if it needs a practitioner who has shipped across six domains and still answers his own email, this is the right one.
Aristaeus, closing
“Memories short enough to be a choice, but long enough to be a mirror.”
A line from Letter for My Future Self, the Claude Code plugin that sits at the quiet end of the ecosystem. It is also how he thinks about the CV you just read.