Managing Partner
Michael Wilke
„Most AI projects don't fail because of the model — they fail because no one asks where the model is supposed to run, who operates it and what happens when it's under load. Infrastructure is not an afterthought.“
Builds the technical infrastructure on which AI systems and digital platforms run in production — from Kubernetes to payment systems to Zero Trust.
Michael Wilke is a computer scientist and systems architect with over 15 years of experience in infrastructure, security and platform engineering. He comes not from consulting but from the engine room: hosting infrastructures for thousands of customers, IT setup for an international research center in Tanzania, CTO responsibility for a regulated fintech marketplace. He works with Kubernetes, infrastructure-as-code, SEPA/EBICS payment systems and distributed architectures — where availability, compliance and scalability are not options but prerequisites. At makematiq he is responsible for the technical architecture and ensures that what is decided strategically also holds up technically.
Career
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makematiq GmbH
Co-Founder & CTO
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Liquitory GmbH / kogge.io
Founder & Managing Director
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TrustBills
CTO
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LMU München / NIMR Tansania
Head of Department ICT
Service areas
Selected project history
Overall technology leadership for a trade receivables marketplace — heading development, operations, testing and AI
TrustBills, regulated fintech environment, Hamburg, 2016–2019
Platform built from scratch, trade finance and factoring processes fully automated
Building and operating the IT infrastructure for an international medical research center
LMU Munich / NIMR Tanzania, 15-person team, 2012–2016
Complete IT transformation delivered under extreme infrastructure conditions
Design and implementation of cloud-native infrastructures with Kubernetes migration for an international logistics company
Microservices architecture, CI/CD automation, high-availability systems
Migration of critical applications to scalable container architecture
Development of regulatory-compliant payment systems — SEPA platform and EBICS integration for banks
Financial services, European payment processing, compliance requirements
Scalable payment infrastructure for international markets