Asad Karim - Senior AI Developer

Q: Where is Asad based?

Asad is based in Magdeburg, Germany .

Q: What languages does Asad speak?

Asad speaks the following languages: English (Advanced), German (Intermediate) .

Q: How many years of experience does Asad have?

Asad has at least 8 years of experience. During this time, Asad has worked in at least 9 different roles and for 5 different companies . The average length of individual experience is 1 year and 11 months . Note that Asad may not have shared all experience and actually has more experience.

Q: What is Asad's latest experience?

Asad's most recent position is Senior AI Developer at Neuland.ai AG .

Q: What companies has Asad worked for in recent years?

In recent years, Asad has worked for Neuland.ai AG , Sparrow Networks GmbH , and CarOnSale (Castle Tech GmbH) .

Q: Which industries is Asad most experienced in?

Asad is most experienced in industries like Information Technology , Automotive , and Healthcare . Asad also has some experience in Pharmaceutical .

Q: Which business areas is Asad most experienced in?

Asad is most experienced in business areas like Information Technology , Business Intelligence , and Product Development . Asad also has some experience in Research and Development and Project Management .

Q: Which industries has Asad worked in recently?

Asad has recently worked in industries like Information Technology and Automotive .

Q: Which business areas has Asad worked in recently?

Asad has recently worked in business areas like Information Technology , Business Intelligence , and Product Development .

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Magdeburg, Germany

Experience

Oct 2025 - Present

7 months

Cologne, Germany

Senior AI Developer

Neuland.ai AG

Architected and deployed a production-scale GraphRAG system using Neo4j, embeddings, and multi-hop reasoning over 120M+ nodes, improving answer precision by 32%, reducing hallucinations by 41%, and lowering retrieval latency by 38%.
Designed and implemented an enterprise agent ecosystem using Model Context Protocol (MCP), exposing internal APIs, databases, and services as secure callable tools for autonomous workflows and system integration.
Designed and deployed a production LLM-based email routing agent using Microsoft Graph API, MCP, and Azure OpenAI, achieving 96% routing accuracy, reducing manual triage workload by 65%, and decreasing response times from 18 hours to under 4 hours.
Implemented autonomous agent self-correction pipelines using iterative feedback loops (Ralph Wiggum), enabling reliable error detection, automated remediation, and production-safe execution.
Developed a multimodal semantic search platform using multimodal LLMs and vector embeddings, enabling semantic discovery across 250k+ image and video assets and improving search recall by 48%.

Jan 2025 - Sep 2025

9 months

Berlin, Germany

Senior Data Scientist

Sparrow Networks GmbH

Benchmarked data with BERT, LLaMa 3, Mistral 7B for semantic search and anomaly detection, boosting classification accuracy by 18%.
Applied knowledge distillation to compress large transformer models, reducing inference latency by 45% and cloud costs by 30% while retaining 92% accuracy.
Fine-tuned LLMs via PEFT/QLoRA across 15+ client datasets, reducing memory usage by 40% and improving predictive maintenance forecasts by 17%.
Deployed RLHF-optimized chatbot for spare-part classification, lowering misclassification from 12% to 4%.
Operationalized agentic frameworks (LangGraph) for RAG-based recommendations, improving precision by 28%.

Jun 2024 - Dec 2024

7 months

Berlin, Germany

Machine Learning Engineer

Sparrow Networks GmbH

Built an automated scraping pipeline for manufacturer and supplier inventories, reducing manual scraping time by 90%.
Migrated production database from PostgreSQL to Google BigQuery for efficient model generation and reporting.
Created automated Change Data Capture (CDC) pipeline using Kafka, Debezium and Spark.
Automated client reporting via Google Cloud Functions, minimizing manual effort.
Implemented data cleaning pipelines with Apache Airflow for better orchestration.
Designed a text pattern recognition pipeline using OpenAI’s Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and Pinecone vector database to detect anomalies in manufacturer data.
Developed an OCR pipeline leveraging a multi-modal LLM (Vertex AI) to extract text from scanned documents, improving the customer journey of Sparrow app and reducing human errors to nearly 0%.

Jun 2023 - May 2024

1 year

Berlin, Germany

Professional Data Scientist

CarOnSale (Castle Tech GmbH)

Migrated to a recommendation system using latent matrix factorization, improving recommendation quality by nearly 15%.
Oversaw A/B testing to refine recommendation algorithms, focusing on buyer clusters and timeframes.
Developed an internal Alpaca-based LLM for efficient Snowflake query generation for stakeholders, reducing data retrieval time from nearly 5 hours to within 30 minutes.
Contributed to the Market Price Prediction project, applying regularization techniques to reduce prediction errors from 18% to 11%.
Assumed managerial responsibilities including roadmap planning, team workflow optimization, and Jira management following Agile (Scrumban) practices.

Sep 2022 - Jun 2023

10 months

Berlin, Germany

Junior Data Scientist

CarOnSale (Castle Tech GmbH)

Improved a LightGBM-based recommendation engine using advanced feature engineering, boosting performance by 6%.
Optimized model architectures, increasing mean average precision and coverage metrics by over 20%.
Co-developed a used-vehicle market pricing model, increasing pricing accuracy and contributing to a 10% rise in customer retention.
Developed explainability endpoints for pricing predictions using SHAP.

Jan 2022 - Sep 2022

9 months

Berlin, Germany

Junior Data Engineer

CarOnSale (Castle Tech GmbH)

Transitioned into a data engineering role during capacity constraints, supporting both data science and BI teams.
Managed data pipelines and ETL workflows ensuring high availability for analytics and reporting.
Developed an automated Slack bot using AWS Lambda and SendGrid, reducing campaign execution time from 2 hours to 5 minutes.
Created Scrapy spiders for competitive intelligence, reducing market analysis turnaround time by 80%.
Led migration of legacy workloads to Apache Spark, achieving a 3x increase in processing speed and 2x overall system efficiency.

Jan 2020 - Dec 2021

2 years

Berlin, Germany

Werkstudent Data Science & Engineering

CarOnSale (Castle Tech GmbH)

Developed end-to-end ML prototypes, ETL pipelines, and BI integrations supporting production data teams across recommendation systems and computer vision use cases.
Implemented PII redaction for auction images using TensorFlow and Keras, reducing manual inspection time from 2 hours to 10 minutes.

Aug 2019 - Dec 2019

5 months

Berlin, Germany

Werkstudent System Administrator

Enway GmbH

Supported enterprise Windows and Linux environments, resolving system issues and automating operational workflows using Ansible.
Improved system reliability through automated backups and updates, reducing manual intervention by 50%.

Jun 2017 - Feb 2019

1 year 9 months

Karachi, Pakistan

Data Scientist

VentureDive

Engineered an R-based analytics platform for oncology clinical trials using dplyr, ggplot2, and Shiny, including a custom oncology-focused R library.
Improved scalability by containerizing analytics services with Docker and deploying to AWS S3.
Integrated Python and R workflows using Rpy2, and developed REST-style analytics endpoints in JupyterLab.

Industry Experience

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Experienced in Information Technology, Automotive, Healthcare, and Pharmaceutical.

Information Technology

Automotive

Healthcare

Pharmaceutical

Business Area Experience

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Experienced in Information Technology, Business Intelligence, Product Development, Research and Development, and Project Management.

Information Technology

Business Intelligence

Product Development

Research and Development

Project Management

Skills

Languages

Python, R, Sql, Java, C, Javascript, Ruby, Sap-abap, Rust

Llm & Nlp

Bert, Llama, Mistral, Gpt (Openai), Vertex Ai, Hugging Face Transformers, Rag, Graphrag, Neo4j, Pinecone, Langchain, Langgraph, Crewai, Mcp, Lora/qlora, Rlhf

Data & Ml

Tensorflow, Keras, Pytorch, Lightgbm, Polars, Scikit-learn, Knime

Mlops / Orchestration

Apache Airflow, N8n, Docker, Jenkins, Travisci, Github Actions, Aws (Lambda, Sagemaker, Ec2, S3), Gcp (Bigquery, Cloud Functions), Azure, Snowflake

Databases

Postgresql, Mongodb, Bigquery, Pinecone

Knowledge Graphs

Neo4j, Entity Linking, Ontology Modeling, Graph Traversal, Golden Answer Systems

Developer Tools

Pycharm, Vscode, Jira, Heroku, Ansible, Spark, Hadoop

Languages

English

Advanced

German

Intermediate

Education

Apr 2019 - Dec 2023

Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg

Master of Science in Data and Knowledge Engineering · Data and Knowledge Engineering · Magdeburg, Germany

Sep 2013 - May 2017

Institute of Business Administration

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science · Computer Science · Karachi, Pakistan

Statistics

Experience

Total positions 9

Experience in Information Technology 7.5 y

Avg length 11 m

Longest experience 1 y 11 m

Global Experience

Countries worked in 2 (Germany, Pakistan)

Primary country Germany

Expertise

Recent roles Senior AI Developer, Senior Data Scientist, Machine Learning Engineer

Main industries Information Technology, Automotive, Healthcare

Main business areas Information Technology, Business Intelligence, Product Development

Qualifications

Highest degree Master

Profile

Created

April 2026

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Where is Asad based?

Asad is based in Magdeburg, Germany.

What languages does Asad speak?

Asad speaks the following languages: English (Advanced), German (Intermediate).

How many years of experience does Asad have?

Asad has at least 8 years of experience. During this time, Asad has worked in at least 9 different roles and for 5 different companies. The average length of individual experience is 1 year and 11 months. Note that Asad may not have shared all experience and actually has more experience.

What roles would Asad be best suited for?

Based on recent experience, Asad would be well-suited for roles such as: Senior AI Developer, Senior Data Scientist, Machine Learning Engineer.

What is Asad's latest experience?

Asad's most recent position is Senior AI Developer at Neuland.ai AG.

What companies has Asad worked for in recent years?

In recent years, Asad has worked for Neuland.ai AG, Sparrow Networks GmbH, and CarOnSale (Castle Tech GmbH).

Which industries is Asad most experienced in?

Asad is most experienced in industries like Information Technology, Automotive, and Healthcare. Asad also has some experience in Pharmaceutical.

Which business areas is Asad most experienced in?

Asad is most experienced in business areas like Information Technology, Business Intelligence, and Product Development. Asad also has some experience in Research and Development and Project Management.

Which industries has Asad worked in recently?

Asad has recently worked in industries like Information Technology and Automotive.

Which business areas has Asad worked in recently?

Asad has recently worked in business areas like Information Technology, Business Intelligence, and Product Development.

What is Asad's education?

Asad holds a Master in Data and Knowledge Engineering from Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg and a Bachelor in Computer Science from Institute of Business Administration.

What is the availability of Asad?

Asad will be available full-time from June 2026.

What is the rate of Asad?

Asad's rate depends on the specific project requirements. Please use the Meet button on the profile to schedule a meeting and discuss the details.