Co-Founder
Co-Founder + Engineering. Infrastructure, ops, late-night fixes.

Finn is one of the Co-Founders of Grants. He owns the engineering side, the infrastructure that keeps the lights on, and most of the late-night fixes that ship before anyone notices. The architecture you read about under /security and /docs is largely his.
He works against a single principle: a tool ought to do what it claims, observably, on the day it claims. That shows up in the code as relentless invariants - access gates that never branch, audit logs that never silently skip, rate limits that apply identically to humans and agents. It also shows up in the deploy: blue / green, signed releases, no partial states reaching production.
He's been writing software professionally for a decade and contributes to a number of open-source projects in his spare time. Most of his architectural opinions trace back to the day he joined an on-call rotation for a system he hadn't designed - that's where the invariants come from.
What this author has published most recently.
When the percentage cut is the deal-breaker.
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Eligibility, amounts, what to submit, and the real timeline.
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Phase 1 + Phase 2 budgets, eligibility, and how reviewers decide.
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How DFG reviewers actually read the proposal.
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Feasibility vs market-readiness, eligibility, what you actually get out of it, and the revenue/jobs end goal reviewers reward.
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Project types, eligibility, the technical-novelty bar, and the 2025 Projektträger split (AiF / VDI/VDE).
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