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

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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 a product engineer working on user-facing web software since 2004. My work spans the full product — architecture, UX, data visualisation, and increasingly agentic AI — across teams at places like Fraunhofer Heinrich-Hertz-Institut and Estino. I care about the decisions a team can make more confidently, and the iteration cycles that actually close. Coaching is part of most engagements — helping developers and designers move faster together, with less rework.

model: openai/gpt-5.401/03

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-5.401/03

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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