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.
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.
Lab
Where concepts run against real data
No client, no deadline. Built with agents — the questions and the data underneath are real.
01alpen.manuel.fyiAlpine passesWhich pass still holds in early October, and which town should I look for a bed in? 262 roads, ten years of summit climate, rideability per half-month. Not a route planner — a destination compass.MapLibre · Open-Meteo · OpenRouteService · OSM02bridge.manuel.fyiCity Walk DresdenPrompted by the argument over the Carolabrücke: can open geodata yield a digital twin that is beautiful without being photoreal? LoD2 buildings, DGM1 terrain, ATKIS surfaces — walkable in the browser.three.js · CityJSON · GeoSN · OSM03effort.manuel.fyiEffortFour hours in the saddle deserve better than a screenshot. Route line, elevation profile and a handful of numbers become a composition instead of a table. GPX in, a card worth posting out.Next.js · snapdom · Strava · GPX/FIT