drong.dev

Leon Drong

Right across IT, deepest in ERP, integrations and AI

I am a generalist and I am staying one, because the problems usually sit between two systems.

Career

open
Maybe your next opening is my next stop. Get in touch
since 10/2024
ERP application administrator, Lucas-Nülle GmbH
since 02/2026
Dynamics 365 Business Central course at get&use, 72 of 77 days, as of September 2026
06 to 09/2024
Freelance, system connections and image processing
06/2024
Qualified as an IT specialist for application development, IHK Mittlerer Niederrhein
2023 to 2024
Apprenticeship in application development, alimex
2021 to 2023
Apprenticeship in application development at Next Levels, working as a technical project manager
until 2023
Coach of an eSports junior team in League of Legends, five tournament wins

About

Since October 2024 I have worked at Lucas-Nülle GmbH in Kerpen on the ERP that around 230 people use every day. I was hired for Dynamics NAV, PowerShell and troubleshooting. Atlassian and AI governance came after that. I built up both fields in-house and have been responsible for them on the technical side ever since.

I trained as an IT specialist for application development, first at Next Levels, where I ran client projects on the technical side alongside the apprenticeship, then at alimex with Django, computer vision and live-system debugging. I passed the German IHK exam in 2024.

Between school and the apprenticeship there were eighteen months of finding my direction and a temporary job in warehouse picking. Because I know those processes from the execution side, it still helps whenever the ERP touches stock and logistics. It sounds like a detour anyway.

My own AI platform has been running on the side since 2019. It started as a collection of automations and scripts. The layer around it that actually matters came later, with the language models. My home automation now runs on it as well, because I do not want an outside service inside my living space.

Away from that I play and run tabletop RPGs, which serves the same interest as working on rules and systems. Until 2023 I coached an eSports junior team in League of Legends. Most of what I can do professionally I learned first on something nobody asked me to do.

Work

Almost none of this is public, so there is no link. I am happy to say more about the structure and the decisions behind it if that is useful.

  1. 01

    Personal AI platform

    personal project, since 2019

    The entire layer around a language model, so that the model stays swappable and memory and working style live in my own system. Every tool has its own permission tier and critical actions need approval. Those limits did not exist from the start. They came after an agent in a loop had rewritten half a knowledge base. Eight to ten tools and external systems are connected, from home automation through the knowledge base to the calendar. Around thirty reproducible test scenarios check the whole thing, among them retrieval and permissions.

    Python · Retrieval · Agents · Evaluation

  2. 02

    Project data from NAV into time tracking

    Lucas-Nülle, since 2025

    Every project from Dynamics NAV goes over a REST interface secured with OAuth2 into the HR system, so that everyone can book their time straight onto the right project. It used to arrive as an export and was reconciled by hand. The monitoring hangs off dedicated endpoints and I tuned the SQL side far enough that the reconciliation goes unnoticed during the working day.

    C# · REST · OAuth2 · SQL

  3. 03

    Scanner application for manufacturing

    Lucas-Nülle, since 2024

    I built the application and its link into the ERP and put both into production. Booking now happens at the workstation instead of at a PC at the edge of the production hall, and nobody has to cross the shop floor for a booking any more.

    C# · Dynamics NAV · SQL

  4. 04

    Local transcription pipeline

    Lucas-Nülle, since 2024

    Internal training recordings are transcribed entirely on our own hardware, so that no recording goes to an external service. I built the pipeline, it is in its test phase and two people have been trained on it by now. Whisper works with German set explicitly and Pyannote assigns the speakers. A domain glossary catches the terms from Business Central and NAV. The pipeline splits long recordings into overlapping segments and resumes at the last position after an interruption.

    Python · Whisper · Pyannote

  5. 05

    AI inventory and assessment under the EU AI Act

    Lucas-Nülle, since 2024

    Every AI application in the company sits in the inventory with its risk class under the EU AI Act and the internal zero trust baseline. On top of that runs an approval path with conditions and custom fields in Jira, so that it stays clear who approved what and for which purpose. I presented it to the managing directors and afterwards wrote it up for all employees.

    EU AI Act · Zero trust · Jira

  6. 06

    Rebuilding the IT service desk

    Lucas-Nülle, since 2024

    The service desk runs on Jira Service Management. Rebuilt rather than customised further, because that brings it back close to the standard. I decide the structure, the workflows and the approval paths. 130 requests a month go through it, first-level support gets self-service and incoming requests are triaged automatically. A good 300 people across two companies work with Jira and Confluence.

    Jira Service Management · Confluence · Automations

  7. 07

    Automated gate access control

    alimex, 2024

    The final project of my apprenticeship reads number plates in real time, matches them against a whitelist and a blacklist and drives the gate barrier from that. Access can be a one-off, because a plate set up that way drops out of the list after the scan. A dedicated interface lets somebody without technical knowledge manage the plates, a similarity search catches typos and access is role-based. In testing it recognised five vehicles reliably under changing light conditions, but it never went beyond the prototype.

    Python · OpenCV · EasyOCR · TensorFlow

  8. 08

    Middleware, drones and a Discord bot

    freelance and on the side, until 2024

    Between the end of my apprenticeship and my current job I worked on my own account, on connections between existing systems and on image processing in Python. Alongside that I built obstacle sensing for drones over the years and a Discord bot with CI/CD that handles moderation and routine tasks.

    Python · CI/CD

  9. 09

    Technical project management in client projects

    Next Levels, 2021 to 2023

    My job was running the client projects on the technical side, from the estimate through to sign-off. Frontend and content management in the same projects came with it. Among other things I worked on the websites of Mellerud, ENRA, Bike Discount and Vosdellen and on the Kumho Tire Europe app.

    Project management · JavaScript · CSS · CMS

Skills

Programming
Python, C#, SQL, AL, C/AL, PowerShell, JavaScript
ERP and databases
Dynamics 365 Business Central, Dynamics NAV, SQL Server, Access
Integrations
REST APIs, OAuth2, ETL, Middleware
Web
HTML, CSS, Django, Content management systems
AI and vision
Retrieval, Agents, Whisper, Pyannote, OpenCV, TensorFlow
Atlassian
Jira, Jira Service Management, Confluence, Automations
Methods
EU AI Act, Zero trust, Technical project management, Logging standards, CI/CD, Git
Languages
German (native), English (fluent)

Modes

work in progress

Five modes are on the list. Exactly one of them is built so far, the one you are reading right now. The list came together in a group chat at close to three in the morning and it grew longer than the evening did. It stays here anyway, because otherwise I forget it, and because it shows you what I am working on next. The Mode field at the top opens each one on its own.

  • Boring active

    This one, which you are reading. So far the only finished mode because it only needs text and lines.

  • Fun planned

    Coming as a game. You find the info on the way because you walk through the portfolio instead of scrolling.

  • AI planned

    A text box for the question you would not ask in a conversation. Nothing is stored.

  • Story planned

    A roll on my backstory. The higher you roll, the more I tell you.

  • Tech planned

    The same page with animations. They are missing here on purpose so nothing holds up the reading.

As of September 2026.

Contact

Write to me if it is about ERP, integrations, how a company handles AI or anything that sits between two systems. Email is where I get to it fastest.