Maik Hummel
Veteran Technologist & Startup Survivor
I left my job as Head of AI Strategy in February 2026 to go and build. I had lost interest in strategy work that ends at the recommendation. Beevelop has been the full-time job since then: one product shipped and operated, one still pre-launch.
Twelve years in production software.
now
Beevelop
Managing Director
Launched Kickgeist globally and operated it through the 2026 World Cup; a second product is pre-launch.
Parloa GmbH, New York City and Berlin
Head of AI Strategy, previously Principal AI Evangelist
Core member of the Series C team; led the US launch from New York.
Parloa GmbH, Berlin
Team Lead Engineering, then Staff Software Engineer
Led the Conversation Platform initiative.
Kauz GmbH, Düsseldorf
CTO
Platform ran 140+ chatbots at 15,000+ daily requests; moved the infrastructure to cloud-agnostic Kubernetes.
Neohelden GmbH, Karlsruhe
Founder & CTO
Built a conversational AI platform on a cloud-agnostic backend for privacy-sensitive enterprise workloads. The 2021 exit to msg systems AG was an asset deal covering core technology and brand.
NTT DATA Deutschland, Frankfurt
Technical Consultant
Altemista Cloud team, building an enterprise hybrid-cloud platform.
mangowerk UG, Berlin
Co-founder & CTO
Completed a Berlin accelerator programme; secured investment.
NTT DATA Deutschland, Frankfurt and Ettlingen
Business Informatics student, dual programme
Dual programme with the DHBW: B.Sc. Business Informatics, study alternating with placements.
Tippster Media Production UG, Karlsruhe
CTO
Social betting platform for Bundesliga, the European Championship and the NFL; built on Ionic, Node.js, Feathers, MySQL and AWS.
Two awards, no dates.
- EXIST-Gründerstipendium, Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action
- 1st Prize, Jugend forscht, Baden-Württemberg state level
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15 Customer Experience Predictions For 2025
Quoted on voice returning as a dominant customer engagement channel.
Transforming Contact Centers with GPT-4o Multi-Agent Crews and Human-in-the-Loop
Community Spotlight session at DevDay in London; recording published by OpenAI.