Simon Ole Wagenführer

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Wagenfuehrer (Wagenführer): the personal site of Simon Ole Wagenfuehrer. Applied AI, Counter-Strike level design, projects, writing and how to get in touch.

Who I am

Hi, I'm Simon, online sometimes T-R3x3r (blame my 9-year-old self). I like building, learning, and experimenting.

AI is the biggest technological shift yet, and while it'll bring tremendous change, I'm an optimist and excited by it, so I host some of my experiments and side projects here.

Beyond AI, I'm a London School of Economics alumni, and I shipped four official Counter-Strike levels to 25M+ monthly players (the first at 19). I'm also a stats and data nerd who likes to write down my thoughts.

Stay a while, explore, and get in touch.

What I do now

• Applied AI Engineer, Arcade AI (May 2026 – now, Paris, France + Remote)
• Contract Level Designer, Technical Designer & Project Lead, Valve Corporation (Dec 2020 – now, Remote)

Highlights

• I’ve worked on four official Counter-Strike levels, across Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and Counter-Strike 2, that have been available to tens of millions of monthly active players. They are Frostbite, Calavera, Vineyard, Stronghold.
• Calavera: Placed third in the 2020 Source Engine Discord Wingman contest.
• Stronghold: Took 4th place in the Mapcore x FACEIT Big Adventures Contest, with well over two hundred entries.
• BSc International Business, Supply Chain Management: ranked 1st in cohort, GPA 9.24/10, Summa Cum Laude.

Experience

Applied AI Engineer, Arcade AI

May 2026 – now, Paris, France + Remote

• Agent harness, evals and optimisation for an AI-native gaming cloud platform, plus design and backend systems such as the multiplayer editor.

Contract Level Designer, Technical Designer & Project Lead, Valve Corporation

Dec 2020 – now, Remote

• Directed a 10-person team delivering Counter-Strike maps that reached 25M+ monthly users; feedback-driven updates lifted retention and ratings.

Founders Inc. Canopy, Founder of Azothex

Mar – Jun 2026, San Francisco, USA + Remote

• Built a platform where companies can hire AI agents: AI-native MCP, OpenClaw plugin and API.

Masters Dissertation Project, EY-Parthenon

Jun – Sep 2025, London, UK

• Automated 60% of analyst workflows with an AI agent, cutting turnaround time so consultants could focus on higher-value strategic work.
• Python, SQL and LangGraph to build scalable systems for data-driven decision-making.

Teaching Assistant, Quantitative Methods I & II, Maastricht University SBE

2022 – 2023, Maastricht, Netherlands

• Delivered tutorials to 100+ students, improving course performance and feedback scores.

Industrial Clerk Trainee, Rotational Program, CLAAS Selbstfahrende Erntemaschinen

2019 – 2021, Harsewinkel, Germany

• Rotated through supply chain, credit management, HR, operations planning, purchasing and pricing.
• Spearheaded the ISO 9001 certification project, improving process compliance and audit readiness.

Education

MSc Operations Research & Analytics

The London School of Economics (LSE), Dept. of Mathematics, 2024 – 2025, London, UK

• Machine learning & AI, algorithms, game theory, statistical methods: optimisation and analytics applied to real-world problems.

BSc International Business, Supply Chain Management

Maastricht University School of Business and Economics, 2021 – 2024, Maastricht, Netherlands

ranked 1st in cohort, GPA 9.24/10, Summa Cum Laude.

• Strategy, quantitative methods, supply chain & operations, finance.

Semester abroad

National University of Singapore (NUS), Jan – Jun 2024, Singapore, Republic of Singapore

• Python, lean management, negotiations & conflict management, strategic management, consumer behaviour.

Counter-Strike levels

Apps and experiments

• Hearthscale: Own your intelligence. The local AI platform, built for everyone, not just developers. Text, voice, image and music models. Free, private, no setup needed. Site: https://hearthscale.com
• Simple House Planner: Plan your house in 2D and 3D. A free floor plan editor that runs in your browser. Draw to scale, furnish every room and see it in 3D. Design with ChatGPT, and export to PDF, DWG and IFC. Site: https://simplehouseplanner.com
• MCPoker: A poker floor for AI agents. Texas Hold’em, played by autonomous agents. Watch the hands unfold, or send your agent to take a seat. Virtual chips, no money, no prizes. Site: https://mcpoker.simonwagenfuehrer.com

Other things I made

• Layover: The first one is Layover: you get between two airports on real flight routes, but you can only see the flights leaving the airport you’re at. You plan one leg at a time, and your score is the number of flights it took.
• Hearthscale Rebellion: A brush typeface for wordmarks and short phrases. Free to download.
• The Doomsday practice tool: The Doomsday method lets you work out the day of the week for any date in your head. John Conway came up with it. In any given year, a handful of easy dates all fall on the same weekday, the year’s doomsday, and you work out every other date from there.

Skills and languages

• AI: Claude Code & Codex power user, OpenClaw (self-hosted), and I use AI for pretty much everything now
• Analysis: Python, R, AMPL, SPSS
• Business: SAP, Excel, PowerPoint
• Languages: German (Native), English (Fluent, IELTS 8.5), Mandarin Chinese (A1, learning)

Travel

I've been to 51 of 197 countries and lived in Germany, Netherlands, Singapore, United Kingdom.

I've logged 125 flights covering 342,759 km.

Get in touch

Overview of some of the roles I have had, contact me for references. Always interested in new opportunities, so feel free to reach out!

Email is the best way to reach me: simon@wagenfuehrer.com.

All my profiles are on Find me elsewhere.

Every page on this site

• Welcome: Simon Ole Wagenfuehrer: who I am and what this place is.
• Experience: Where Simon Ole Wagenfuehrer has worked and what the work actually involved.
• Education: MSc Operations Research & Analytics (LSE) and BSc International Business (Maastricht).
• Counter-Strike: Counter-Strike level design: the official maps I worked on, what shipped, and what changed between builds.
• Frostbite (dz_frostbite): Frostbite (dz_frostbite), a Danger Zone map for CS:GO, shipped Dec 2020. Level design by Simon Ole Wagenfuehrer: layout, gameplay and art direction.
• Calavera (de_calavera): Calavera (de_calavera), a Wingman map for CS:GO, shipped May 2021. Level design by Simon Ole Wagenfuehrer: layout, gameplay and art direction.
• Vineyard (dz_vineyard): Vineyard (dz_vineyard), a Danger Zone map for CS:GO, shipped Feb 2022. Level design by Simon Ole Wagenfuehrer: layout, gameplay and art direction.
• Stronghold (de_stronghold): Stronghold (de_stronghold), a Bomb defusal map for Counter-Strike 2, shipped Jan 2026. Level design by Simon Ole Wagenfuehrer: layout, gameplay and art direction.
• Apps & Experiments: Apps I’m building: Hearthscale, which runs AI models on your own computer, Simple House Planner, a free floor planner in your browser, and MCPoker, a poker table for AI agents.
• Hearthscale: Own your intelligence. The local AI platform, built for everyone, not just developers. Text, voice, image and music models. Free, private, no setup needed.
• Simple House Planner: Plan your house in 2D and 3D. A free floor plan editor that runs in your browser. Draw to scale, furnish every room and see it in 3D. Design with ChatGPT, and export to PDF, DWG…
• MCPoker: A poker floor for AI agents. Texas Hold’em, played by autonomous agents. Watch the hands unfold, or send your agent to take a seat. Virtual chips, no money, no prizes.
• Doomsday Method: Conway’s Doomsday rule, explained short, with a practice tool: the dates to memorise, the sum in twelves, and the full working after every answer.
• Daily Games: The daily puzzle games I build. One puzzle a day, the same one for everybody. Layover is the first.
• Typefaces: My typefaces, starting with Hearthscale Rebellion, a brush font for wordmarks and short phrases.
• Hearthscale Rebellion: Hearthscale Rebellion, a brush typeface for wordmarks and short phrases. Free to download.
• Doomsday practice: Practise the Doomsday rule: a random date, seven buttons, and the century, year, month and day working shown after every answer.
• Writing: Essays and notes. Read them here, wherever they were first published.
• Countries: An interactive globe of every country I have set foot in.
• Flights: The full flight log: routes flown, distance covered, and the map of it.
• Find me elsewhere: Email, LinkedIn, X, GitHub, Instagram and Steam. Every handle in one place.
• Privacy: What this site stores, and who handles your requests.