Independent Research · 2026 · Narrative review
Reliability Patterns for LLM-Based Multi-Agent Systems
A Synthesis of Published Evidence.
A review of six engineering patterns commonly invoked to make language-model agents
reliable - structured tool schemas, validator agents, reflection-and-retry, least-privilege
tool scoping, failure propagation, and deterministic output formatting. Each pattern is
mapped to the strongest controlled evidence in the literature and graded on a
strong / moderate / weak / absent rubric.
- Three patterns well-supported by independent controlled studies
- Three widely recommended but resting on thinner isolation ablations
- Cross-cutting finding: reliability depends on an external grounding signal - pure self-assessment loops are fragile
- Five open research questions identified for the field
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Peer-reviewed · Open access · 2024
YOLOv8 + XGBoost for NFL play prediction
Bachelor thesis combining real-time object detection with gradient-boosted decision trees
to predict American football plays from broadcast video. Grade 1.0,
published open-access.
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Independent Research · 2026 · Pre-print
The MCP Governance Gap
Empirical Evidence on Dynamic Tool Binding in Enterprise AI.
A quantitative study of the gap between Model Context Protocol adoption velocity and the
response cadence of ISO/IEC 42001, NIST AI RMF, and the
EU AI Act. Introduces the Tool Graph Capability Score (TCS) -
a reproducible metric that places a runtime agent on the same axis as traditional approved
applications.
- Sample of n = 200 MCP-server repos from a population of ~98,000
- 10 public CVEs mapped against 6 control breakpoints
- A typical full-stack MCP configuration expresses 7.1× the capability surface of an approved DBA-plus-shell tool
- Robust to 48 reweightings in sensitivity analysis
Munich Datageeks e.V.
Two-time guest speaker · 2024 - now
- Transformer architectures & enterprise applications
- Agentic AI · Multi-Agent Systems · Computer Vision in industry
Certifications
Professional credentials
- ServiceNow Certified System Administrator · Sept 2025
- EU-Z Basiszertifikat
- EU-Z Vertiefungszertifikat
Ongoing research interests
What I'm working toward
- Trusted AI frameworks for regulated industries
- Multi-agent orchestration patterns with MCP
- Evaluation & guardrails for production LLM systems
- Cost-efficient RAG architectures at scale