Marcel T.-Senior AI Adoption Technical Consultant | AI-Assisted Software Development | Agentic AI | Test Automation | Online Training
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Experience
Founder, AI Strategy and Enablement
Engineering Peak Impact
- Design workshop curricula for software engineers and technical leads on AI-enabled engineering and on adopting AI tools effectively.
- Technical talk, 17th TestIstanbul Conference, October 2026: "What If We Tested the Tester?", on how AI amplifies the tester's judgement, blind spots included.
- Built and run the company website and online course platform (WordPress, PHP, JavaScript) with Claude Code and Cursor, plus a Playwright test suite that checks the live site's pages, links and sign-up flow.
- Built Write Check, a Chrome extension backed by a local Node.js service that scores any text box for clarity and AI-sounding phrasing, falling back across Gemini, Kimi, GPT and OpenRouter when a provider fails.
- Built a Python video pipeline that turns my online course into short narrated videos: script, text-to-speech, captions and rendering, with a review gate before each episode.
- Work under a written protocol for AI coding agents (CLAUDE.md): a definition of done written as checks before the work starts, tests that fail before they pass, and independent reviewer agents that check each claim of the coder agents against its source.
- Author of The Maintenance Trap (Level Up newsletter, May 2026), on developer productivity: why high-performing engineers get pulled into maintenance work and how to make the ROI case for fixing it.
Community Lead
Global AI Hub
- Community leadership role within the 10million AI initiative, where I engaged with the global AI learning community, providing support and mentorship to members when needed.
Senior Software Engineer
PTC Vuforia
- Informally led two internal benchmarking projects that I started myself.
- In personal recommendations, Emilio Maggio, Senior Director of Engineering, wrote that I "helped shape the problem, suggested the approach, drove the analysis, and shared clear recommendations with the team", and Andrew Schneeweiss-Gee, my technical lead and later manager, that "he led the projects to successful conclusions that provided useful additional functionality for our internal benchmarking framework".
- Designed the benchmarking framework's library architecture and math library; wrote a large share of its tests and main pipelines; initiated and drove unit-testing practice in the benchmarking team and supervised test creation in code review.
- Worked on computer-vision, tracking and AR systems for the Vuforia Engine SDK, adopted by thousands of organisations worldwide, within a team of 30 to 50 people in a multi-site engineering organisation across Vienna, Zurich, Cambridge, San Francisco, Israel and Pune.
- Worked in a CI/CD-based delivery process for a production SDK.
- Tracked state-of-the-art research at CVPR and ECCV, attended a few of these conferences, evaluated emerging approaches experimentally, and translated findings into practical engineering improvements, sharing them with the wider team.
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Experienced in Information Technology and Education.
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Experienced in Information Technology, Product Development, Project Management, Research and Development, Customer Service, and Quality Assurance.
Summary
Software engineer and PhD in Computer Vision with 7+ years of experience designing, testing and building complex software systems, from clinical research at University College London to production engineering on PTC's Vuforia Engine. Since 2025 I have been building software daily with AI coding agents (Claude Code, Cursor) and have turned that practice into a written, test-first set of AI-engineering best practices. They include checks-first definitions of done, deterministic quality gates and auditable workflows. Separate coder and reviewer agents mean no agent grades its own work. I use anti-hallucination techniques such as checking each claim against its source, give each task to the model best suited to it, and save tokens by doing in plain code whatever does not need a model. I have designed workshop curricula on moving from individual AI tools to an agentic way of working that stays reliable. Over the past 18 months I have had hundreds of conversations with engineers and technical leaders about where their work gets stuck. ICF Associate Certified Coach with 400+ hours across 75+ clients. Separately, my online courses on efficiency and productivity, with and without AI, have reached more than 40,000 learners. Author of The Maintenance Trap, published in former Amazon VP Ethan Evans' newsletter, on why high-performing engineers get pulled into maintenance work.
I am looking for freelance training projects: AI-assisted software development with coding agents, agentic coding workflows that stay reliable, and test-first practice for engineering teams. I deliver fully remote and online only, from Vienna (CET), in English or Spanish. I do not travel for sessions.
Skills
Adoption And Enablement
- Icf Associate Certified Coach (400+ Hours, 75+ Clients, Including Senior Engineers And Technical Leads)
- Workshop Curricula For Engineers And Tech Leads
Ai-Assisted Development
- Claude Code
- Cursor
- Claude Agent Sdk (Through Openrouter)
- Gemini And Kimi
- Agentic Coding Workflows
- Ai Agents And Mcp Tools
- Claude Code Agent Skills
- Routing Tasks Across Models Through Openrouter
Quality And Test Automation
- Test-First Development
- Unit-Testing Practice And Test Review
- Benchmarking Frameworks
- Browser Automation (Playwright)
- Validators And Quality Gates
- Guardrails In Code
Engineering Practice
- Python
- C++ (Phd Research)
- Sql
- Bash
- Javascript
- Php
- Html
- Css
- Linux
- Git And Github
- Jira
- Ci/Cd
- Library And Framework Architecture
- Code Review
- Engineering Protocols And Documentation
Languages
Education
University College London
PhD · Medical Imaging / Computer Vision · London, United Kingdom
University College London
MRes + MPhil · Computer Vision / Medical Imaging · London, United Kingdom
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
B.Sc. + M.Sc. · Telecommunications / Computer Vision Engineering · Barcelona, Spain
Certifications & licenses
Neuroscience for Business
MIT Sloan Executive Education
ICF Level 1 and 2 coach training
ACA Coach Academies
ICF Associate Certified Coach (ACC)
Attention and Transformers in PyTorch
DeepLearning.ai
Claude Code: A Highly Agentic Coding Assistant
DeepLearning.ai
Convex Optimization
Generative Adversarial Networks
Stanford
Linear Algebra
MIT
Machine Learning
Stanford
Probabilistic Graphical Models I-III
Stanford
Statistics
Experience
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Qualifications
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Marcel is based in Vienna, Austria and prefers 100% remote projects.
Marcel speaks the following languages: Catalan (Native), Spanish (Native), English (Advanced), German (Elementary).
Marcel has at least 8 years of experience. During this time, Marcel has worked in at least 3 different roles and for 3 different companies. The average length of individual experience is 3 years and 7 months. Note that Marcel may not have shared all experience and actually has more experience.
Based on recent experience, Marcel would be well-suited for roles such as: Founder, AI Strategy and Enablement, Community Lead, Senior Software Engineer.
Marcel's most recent position is Founder, AI Strategy and Enablement at Engineering Peak Impact.
In recent years, Marcel has worked for Engineering Peak Impact, Global AI Hub, and PTC Vuforia.
Marcel is most experienced in industries like Information Technology and Education.
Marcel is most experienced in business areas like Information Technology, Product Development, and Project Management. Marcel also has some experience in Research and Development, Customer Service, and Quality Assurance.
Marcel has recently worked in industries like Information Technology and Education.
Marcel has recently worked in business areas like Information Technology, Product Development, and Project Management.
Marcel holds a Doctorate in Medical Imaging / Computer Vision from University College London, a Master in Computer Vision / Medical Imaging from University College London and a Master in Telecommunications / Computer Vision Engineering from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya.
Marcel has 10 certificates. Among them, these include: Neuroscience for Business, ICF Level 1 and 2 coach training, and ICF Associate Certified Coach (ACC).
Marcel is immediately available part-time for suitable projects.
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