Independent product engineer · since 2004

Designing, building & shippingsince twenty years —and counting.

Manuel Dugué · independent product engineer based in Dresden. Architecture, AI-native workflows, User Experience; preferably where strategy meets implementation.

BaseDresden / Remote

Open forQ1 2027 →

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About

A brief self-portrait

Based on the formal documents, then handed to a model with instructions not to get lyrical.

Generated by LLM · lightly supervised by Manuel

I'm Manuel Dugué, a product engineer who has been building user-facing software since 2004. My work sits where careful architecture meets AI-native workflows, weaving custom agents and LLM features into product teams while keeping the underlying stack resilient and easy to reason about. Over the years that's meant relaunching a booking portal for weg.de and helping ten developers and two designers work faster with fewer bugs, building automotive engineering dashboards at Estino where signals and machines become readable, and advising teams at the Heinrich-Hertz-Institut on a 5G component catalogue built for both people and coding agents to work in. I like being close to the decisions that shape a product, and close to the people who have to live with them afterward.

model: openai/gpt-5.6-terra01/03

About

A brief self-portrait

Based on the formal documents, then handed to a model with instructions not to get lyrical.

Generated by LLM · lightly supervised by Manuel

Manuel Dugué · independent product engineer based in Dresden. Architecture, AI-native workflows, User Experience; preferably where strategy meets implementation.

model: openai/gpt-5.6-terra01/03

Documents

The formal documents

A résumé and the longer version of what I do and where I tend to be useful.

Document · 01

Curriculum Vitae

Twenty-odd years on one page. More precise than small talk, shorter than the long version.

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Document · 02

Skill Profile

The longer version: what I build, how I work, and where the agents come in.

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