Vera Scheunert

Engineering leader with 6+ years of full stack development and 2+ years leading engineering teams across frontend, backend, and AI. Currently building products for researchers and clinicians in healthcare AI at Aignostics, architecting production systems, shipping agentic harnesses with tools like Claude Code, and partnering across product, data science, and clinical teams in a vertically integrated organization. Comfortable working hands on across Python, TypeScript, React, and GenAI integration, with a strong focus on system design, reliability, and shipping clinically safe products at scale.

• Aignostics; AI-driven Precision Medicine

  Oct 2023 - Present

  Engineering Manager II

  Jan 2026 - Present
  • Lead a cross functional team across frontend, backend, and AI engineering, owning delivery and architectural direction for products serving clinicians and researchers in a vertically integrated medical AI organization.
  • Architect and ship AI native engineering workflows including agentic harnesses, Claude Code integrations, and custom MCP servers, freeing the team to focus on system design, value and impact outcomes, and clinical safety.
  • Drive hiring decisions and team composition while mentoring engineers across levels, raising the bar on technical depth, problem solving, and customer centricity.

• Engineering Manager

  Jun 2024 - Dec 2025
  • Led a new clinician facing product from concept to launch using Next.js, GCP Python Cloud Run services, and Supabase, owning delivery and coordinating cross functional partners across product, data science, and pathology team under tight constraints.
  • Designed, guided, and vetted system designs across Python backend services and React/TypeScript frontends, writing code to solve ambiguous problems spanning AI integration and product infrastructure.
  • Drove technical roadmaps for multiple teams, anticipating infrastructure needs and scaling requirements as the platform grew, and balancing reliability investments against product delivery.
  • Reviewed code across 4+ products, providing feedback on style, accuracy, testability, and efficiency to raise the bar on engineering quality.
  • Managed engineers across multiple teams and technical domains in a complex, matrixed structure, setting clear priorities, providing direct feedback, and developing career growth paths.

• Senior Software Engineer

  Oct 2023 - Jun 2024
  • Drove full stack architecture decisions across React/TypeScript frontends and Python backend services for AI powered medical imaging workflows used in clinical research.
  • Raised reliability and quality of clinician facing systems: established testing practices (Jest, RTL, Pytest) reaching ~80% coverage and adopted across the organization.
  • Optimized PostgreSQL queries and CI/CD pipelines (Docker, GCP), reducing build times by 40% and improving backend reliability at scale.
  • Engineered distributed systems including GraphQL APIs, gRPC integrations, and observability (Sentry, Grafana) across microservices.
  • Introduced automated E2E testing (Playwright) and founded a tech debt guild, scaling engineering quality across teams.

• Software Engineer

  Feb 2022 - Oct 2023

  DKB CodeFactory
  • Built and shipped full stack features (React, TypeScript, Node.js) for a large scale banking product serving 300K+ end users, collaborating across distributed cross functional teams in a matrixed organization.
  • Introduced Playwright as the primary E2E testing framework across multiple teams, raising reliability and code quality at scale.
  • Founded and led the company wide Junior Committee, building cross departmental mentoring initiatives and developing junior engineering talent.

• Software Engineer

  Aug 2020 - Jan 2022

  Fillip.ai; Low-Code Event Platform
  • Delivered full stack features across React, Node.js/NestJS, and WebRTC in a fast paced startup, owning customer facing functionality from design through production.
  • Architected distributed real time systems (WebSocket, WebRTC, CQRS) and built scripting systems enabling custom logic across microservice components.

• Prosumio: Game-based Learning Platformprosumio.de

  Full stack teacher portal and student app spanning Next.js, React, Flutter, and Python. Designed and shipped content pipelines from prompt design through evaluation.

  React, Next.js, TypeScript, Flutter, Python

• Devhaus Leipzig; Freelance Instructor

  Taught full stack web development and mentored students from concept to deployment, providing direct, honest feedback and raising the bar on engineering practice.

  React, TypeScript, Next.js, PostgreSQL, Tailwind CSS, Playwright

• Master of Arts in Communication Management

  University of Leipzig

  Oct 2018 - Jul 2021

• Code Camp

  Devhaus Leipzig

  Mar 2020 - Jun 2020

• Bachelor of Arts in Communication Science & English Philology

  Freie Universität Berlin

  Oct 2014 - Apr 2017

• Languages
  Python • TypeScript • JavaScript • HTML • CSS
• Frontend
  React • Next.js • Tailwind CSS • Component architecture • Design systems
• Backend & Infra
  Node.js • FastAPI • PostgreSQL • GraphQL • gRPC • Docker • Kubernetes • GCP
• AI-Native Engineering
  Claude Code • Agentic harnesses • MCP servers • LLM API integration • Prompt engineering • Vercel AI SDK
• Leadership
  System design • Technical roadmaps • Architecture reviews • Code reviews • Cross-functional delivery • Mentoring • Hiring