Luiz Claudio Hogrefe

1. Independent R&D

   09/2026 – present

   AnyLAI · non-commercial research and development project · Cologne · Independent

   Research on governed AI, evidence, semantics and decision architecture, published on anylai.eu.

   • COADF 2.2, a published framework for building AI-assisted software under explicit governance
   • ERQYO, a runtime architecture for governed decisions, with a reference implementation that is not deployed
   • AnyDPP, a research and demonstration environment for evidence-based digital product passports
   • Articles on AI governance, digital product passports and evidence

2. Software Architect

   05/2026 – 08/2026

   IW Consult (Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft Köln Consult GmbH) · Standards division · Cologne · Employment

   Software architecture for digital product passports.

   • Designing and evolving software architectures for digital product passports under European regulatory requirements and semantic standards such as ECLASS
   • Translating regulatory requirements into architecture and data models
   • Developing ECLASS as semantics for the digital twin, including the Asset Administration Shell
   • Architecture risk analysis of an existing system landscape, documented with arc42
   • Technical guidance for development teams, alignment with product owners, client presentations

3. Architecture and technical lead

   08/2025 – 04/2026

   AnyImob · AI assistant for real-estate brokerage in Brazil · Cologne · Entrepreneurial · historical

   An earlier entrepreneurial venture: an AI assistant for real-estate brokerage, built with a development team in Brazil. This commercial phase is historical and separate from AnyLAI's non-commercial research.

   • Answers compared against project data before they are shown, with guardrails for financing, legal and valuation questions
   • Displayed confidence computed after generation, kept separate from retrieval similarity
   • Handoff tickets to a human broker, and audit logs of the assistant's decisions
   • Python and FastAPI, PostgreSQL with pgvector, Redis Streams, locally hosted language models

4. Quality Engineering Senior Analyst

   03/2025 – 08/2025

   Accenture Technology Solutions · Software Engineering · Bonn · Employment

   Scrum Master and tester in an enterprise software programme.

   • Scrum Master: facilitating the team's events, removing impediments, working as the interface between development team and product owner
   • Deriving test cases from requirements; smoke, regression and functional testing
   • Setting up and running a Kanban board

5. Independent research and consulting

   02/2024 – 02/2025

   On my own account · Cologne · Independent

   Research on semantic interoperability, digital product passports, the ESPR, the ESRS and the AI Act, alongside consulting on modernising grown system landscapes.

   • Data structures and architecture patterns oriented to regulatory requirements
   • Further training: Agile Cloud Development with Scrum (Velptec, April to December 2024)

6. IT Consultant

   06/2023 – 01/2024

   msg systems ag · Supply Solutions · Cologne · Employment

   Developer, Scrum Master and test manager in an agile software project.

   • Software development in an agile team
   • Scrum Master for the team
   • Test concept and test management

7. Interim management

   06/2022 – 06/2023

   Family business in real-estate development, Brazil · Balneário Piçarras · Entrepreneurial · historical

   Operational and digital management for a year, including agile methods and CRM and BI reporting.

8. Consultant

   01/2017 – 06/2022

   Sopra Steria SE · Industries division · Düsseldorf · Employment

   Requirements, analysis, concepts and implementation in enterprise client projects.

   • Further development of software for the energy sector and of a web application for managing credit conditions
   • Architecture and documentation of an orchestration platform for continuous build and deployment
   • Build and deployment tooling for internal applications in banking
   • Architecture, documentation and development of a web-service-based application in the automotive sector
   • Salesforce testing and development, and a deployment concept, in the automotive sector

Earlier career

• 2015 – 12/2016Independent web and mobile development · On my own account · Düsseldorf
• 12/2014 – 02/2015Software Developer · Autowork GmbH & Co. KG · private-cloud provider · Düsseldorf
• 03/2014 – 09/2014Software development intern · B&IT Solutions · Berlin
• 07/2013 – 01/2014Systems Analyst · FURB – Universidade Regional de Blumenau · Blumenau
• 09/2011 – 07/2012Software Developer · FURB – Universidade Regional de Blumenau · Blumenau
• 05/2008 – 09/2011Programmer · Edusoft Tecnologia · Blumenau

• Governed AI architecture

  Separating probabilistic proposal from deterministic permission; confidence gating, human review and replayable decision records.

• Semantics and interoperability

  Data models that keep their meaning across systems: ECLASS, Asset Administration Shell, UN/CEFACT UNTP, JSON-LD.

• Regulation as engineering input

  Turning requirements from the ESPR, the EUDR and the AI Act into architecture, data models and tests.

• Enterprise delivery

  Architecture documentation with arc42, risk analysis, test strategy and agile delivery in large teams.

Architecture

Distributed systems · Event-driven architecture · Integration architecture · API design (REST, OpenAPI) · arc42 · Architecture decision records · Architecture risk analysis · Modernising grown system landscapes

Backend

Java · Spring / Spring Boot · Python · FastAPI · SQLAlchemy · TypeScript · Node.js · Next.js / React

Platform and delivery

Docker · Kubernetes (K3s, k3d) · Terraform · Argo CD / GitOps · CI/CD pipelines · Linux · Tracing and audit trails

Data and semantics

PostgreSQL · pgvector · Redis Streams · Kafka / Redpanda · Neo4j · ECLASS · Asset Administration Shell · JSON-LD

AI systems

LLM integration · Retrieval-augmented generation · Locally hosted models · Confidence gating and human review · Governed decision architecture · Evaluation and benchmarks

Standards and regulation

W3C Verifiable Credentials · GS1 Digital Link · UN/CEFACT UNTP · Digital product passports · ESPR · EUDR · EU AI Act

Ways of working

Scrum (PSM I) · Kanban · Test strategy and test management · Technical leadership of development teams

Independent, non-commercial research published through AnyLAI.

• AnyLAIIndependent R&D project

  The independent R&D project that holds the research, its demonstrations and its publications.

• COADFPublished framework

  A published framework for building AI-assisted software under explicit governance: eight principles, a control manifest and CI-enforced fences.

• ERQYOReference implementation · not deployed

  A runtime architecture that lets learned rhythm shape a proposal while authoritative constraints decide the operation.

• Trust ArchitectureImplemented platform architecture

  Provenance, evidence, confidence, authority and audit, arranged so that trust can be checked at every boundary.

• Open Template LibraryPilot catalogue · prototype

  A pilot catalogue of implementation templates, each written once as a source and generated for machines, AI tools and people. Five are published.

Applied research systems, each with its actual maturity.

• AnyDPPResearch and demonstration environment

  Source documents become evidence, pass human review and are composed into a digital product passport.

• AnyAuditResearch demonstrator

  Trace propagation, versioned audit events and a hash-chained trail, extracted as a reusable library.

• AnyImobApplied implementation · historical lineage

  An assistant for real-estate brokerage with grounding checks, guardrails and handoff to people.

• AnyTraceResearch prototype · unpublished

  Provenance and custody as a reconstructable timeline, including events that arrive late.

• AnyVerifyResearch prototype · unpublished

  Attribute-by-attribute comparison of a claim against its evidence, with an honest 'cannot tell'.

• AnyValidResearch prototype · unpublished

  Validation against an authoritative source, with expiry, revalidation and failures that are not verdicts.

• Any2DPPResearch prototype · unpublished

  Declarative, versioned mappings from heterogeneous source data to a passport-compatible structure.

• AnyUSMCAResearch prototype · unpublished

  Origin evidence and material relationships evaluated against a versioned, synthetic rule pack.

• AnyClinicalWorkflow-governance prototype · unpublished

  Governance of a clinical-coordination workflow: consent, escalation, handoff and abstention. No diagnosis.

Articles published on anylai.eu.

• Sep 11, 2026Less human coding, more human architecture
• Sep 10, 2026AI governance needs architecture, not another checklist
• Aug 29, 2026Battery Passport: what the Commission's 71 data points mean for 2027
• Aug 22, 2026Custody is not who held it. Custody is who can prove it.
• Aug 19, 2026Required data is not proven data
• Aug 12, 2026The PPWR applies from 12 August 2026: what changes today, and what does not
• Aug 9, 2026Six digital product passport standards reached the Official Journal. The authenticity standard did not.
• Aug 2, 2026Article 50 of the AI Act takes effect: what changes today for exporters and technology builders

• Portuguese · native
• German · C1
• English · C1
• Spanish · professional working proficiency

• 2015 – 2017Master's studies in Computer Science (not completed) · Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
• 2009 – 2013Bachelor of Computer Science · FURB – Universidade Regional de BlumenauThesis on applying ontologies to the development of information systems in cloud computing
• 2007 – 2008Technical course in software development · CEDUP – Centro de Educação Profissional

• Professional Scrum Master I (PSM I) · Scrum.org · 11/2024
• Oracle Certified Professional, Java SE 6 Programmer · Oracle

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