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Niko (Alexander) Karajannis-AI Engineer & Data Scientist

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Karlsdorf-Neuthard, Germany

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Experience

Jan 2023 - Present
On-site

Co-founder & AI Engineer

KAIKI GmbH

Position Summary
Co-founder & AI Engineer at KAIKI GmbH
Industries
Automotive
Banking and Finance
Food and Beverage
Healthcare
Business Areas
Business Intelligence
Information Technology
Marketing
Product Development
Sales

End-to-end responsibility for all products - concept, architecture, development, and production operation as the sole developer; in addition, customer meetings, proposals, and marketing.

Underwriting Copilot - AI assistant for industrial insurance (in production at customer sites)

  • Supports underwriters in analyzing industrial insurance submissions - in production use at an industrial insurer.
  • Framework-independent RAG architecture with Hybrid Search (BM25 + pgvector) across large, mixed document sets.
  • Two-stage evaluation and observability pipeline (code assertions + LLM-as-Judge) that makes answer quality, retrieval accuracy, and citation integrity measurable in a regression-safe way.

Kaiki Menu Analyzer - Data intelligence platform (in production at customer sites)

  • Automatically captures and analyzes menu data from around 25,000 German restaurants.
  • Scalable 7-container architecture (FastAPI, partitioned PostgreSQL, Redis/RQ) with LLM-supported extraction of structured data from PDF, HTML, and images.
  • Full CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions), production cloud deployment, interactive dashboards (Dash).

Kaiki GEO Atlas - GEO platform (in production at customer sites)

  • Measures brand visibility across five AI engines (ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, Grok, Claude), each augmented with web search, orchestrated as a DAG workflow pipeline (Dispatcher → Sub-workflows → Scoring → Report) with fail isolation.
  • 6-container deployment (FastAPI, Celery, Redis, PostgreSQL); LLM cost estimation, PDF audit report, rule-based cross-signal insights (no extra LLM cost).

Data Pipeline & Analytics Platform - competitive analysis in the automotive aftermarket

  • Automated data pipeline with gap analysis algorithms and role-based access control; 230+ tests.
  • Backend with FastAPI, PostgreSQL, SQLAlchemy.

Product development (actively in progress)

BankingGPT - AI assistant for complaint management in cooperative banking

  • Security architecture at the core: no AI draft reaches the customer without human approval - the approval decision is in auditable code, not in the language model (monotonic: the model may escalate, never downgrade).
  • Real agentic building blocks, each with its own boundary: the model chooses tools itself through an MCP server (read-only, allowlist, capped, fail-safe); sensitive cases are handed off via an open A2A protocol (JSON-RPC, Agent Card, message/send/tasks/get; client implemented by me) to a separate specialist agent (securities/law), which never lowers the review requirement (pinned by test).
  • Evaluation-driven over ten analysis rounds; uncovered a security flaw through independent review and blind tests that nine automated runs had missed.
  • Voice AI frontend, responding live: covered cases are answered in the conversation, sensitive ones escalate before generation; response latency < 7 s measured (local GPU STT/TTS).

Stack & production readiness: Python, pydantic-ai, FastAPI/Celery, PostgreSQL/pgvector, FastMCP, fasta2a, Docker; multi-tenant capable (physical vector isolation per tenant), PII encrypted, OWASP-LLM reviewed, 275 tests, CI/CD; vendor-portable (Ollama / EU Cloud Vertex).

After-Sales Assistant - agentic RAG/GraphRAG assistant on public OEM manuals (automotive after-sales)

  • Genuinely agentic on LangGraph: ReAct agent with four tools and conversation memory - the model decides on its own whether to use the manual (RAG, Chroma), a knowledge graph (GraphRAG, Neo4j/Cypher - decodes warning lights), or a workshop/booking service.
  • Human-in-the-Loop before the irreversible action: before every appointment booking, the graph pauses (interrupt) and gets the driver's explicit confirmation - the same approval-before-action discipline as in BankingGPT, in a different framework.
  • Eval as CI gate: a three-part scorecard (RAGAS grounding + deterministic tool-routing accuracy + DeepEval safety: does the answer mention the warning first when there is a critical warning?) blocks the pipeline; provider-agnostic (OpenAI/Azure/Anthropic), FastAPI with token streaming.

Stack: Python, LangChain/LangGraph, Chroma, Neo4j, RAGAS/DeepEval, FastAPI, Docker.

Jan 2023 - Dec 2023
On-site

Data Scientist & Web Development, freelance

Self-employed

Position Summary
Data Scientist & Web Development, freelance at Self-employed
Industries
Information Technology
Business Areas
Information Technology
Product Development
  • Preparing the launch of KAIKI; development of a web-based B2B system (Django).
Jan 2019 - Dec 2021

Data Scientist

Consulting company

Position Summary
Data Scientist at Consulting company
Industries
Professional Services
Business Areas
Business Intelligence
Information Technology
Research and Development
  • Data analysis with Python; machine learning methods (regression, classification, clustering); customer-specific reporting.
Jan 2018 - Dec 2019
On-site

Data Scientist

German car manufacturer

Position Summary
Data Scientist at German car manufacturer
Industries
Automotive
Business Areas
Business Intelligence
Information Technology
Research and Development
  • Time series analysis of vehicle usage behavior; classification of driver types (cluster and factor analysis).
Jan 2017 - Dec 2017
On-site

Freelancer, Data Analytics

Self-employed

Position Summary
Freelancer, Data Analytics at Self-employed
Business Areas
Business Intelligence
Information Technology
Research and Development
  • Text mining, machine learning, network analysis.
Jan 2012 - Dec 2017
On-site

Research Associate

Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)

Position Summary
Research Associate at Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)
Industries
Education
Business Areas
Operations
Quality Assurance
  • Quality management and process control in the higher education sector.

Industry Experience

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Experienced in Education, Automotive, Banking and Finance, Food and Beverage, Healthcare, and Professional Services.

Education
Automotive
Banking and Finance
Food and Beverage
Healthcare
Professional Services
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Business Area Experience

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Experienced in Business Intelligence, Information Technology, Operations, Quality Assurance, Research and Development, and Marketing.

Business Intelligence
Information Technology
Operations
Quality Assurance
Research and Development
Marketing
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Summary

AI engineer who takes full responsibility for AI products from the first idea through to production operation - several are now in use at customer sites. Main focus: RAG architectures, agentic systems, and Voice/Conversational AI. Strong in the part that decides whether something becomes a demo or a real product: making LLM and RAG systems measurable (evaluation, observability, citation integrity) and running them reliably (Docker, CI/CD, cloud). Before that, several years of data science experience in automotive and consulting.

Skills

  • Ai & Data: Llms / Generative Ai (Openai, Azure Openai, Llama, Ollama), Rag & Hybrid Search, Graphrag, Prompt Engineering, Fine-Tuning; Agentic Frameworks (Langgraph, Pydantic-Ai); Mcp, A2a; Voice Ai (Stt/Tts) & Conversational Ai; Evaluation & Observability (Llm-As-Judge, Ragas, Deepeval, Langfuse); Vector Databases (Pgvector, Chroma); Classic Ml & Neural Networks
  • Backend & Data: Python, Fastapi, Sqlalchemy; Postgresql (Partitioned), Sqlite, Neo4j; Redis / Rq / Celery
  • Frontend & Visualization: React, Typescript; Dash, Streamlit, Tableau
  • Devops & Cloud: Docker / Compose, Github Actions (Ci/Cd), Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud (Vertex Ai), Git
  • Programming Languages: Python, Typescript, Sql, Cypher

Languages

German
Native
English
Advanced
Greek
Intermediate
Norwegian
Intermediate

Education

Oct 2013 - Jun 2015

University of Speyer

Master of Public Administration · Science Management · Speyer, Germany

Oct 2003 - Jun 2010

University of Freiburg

Magister Artium · Sociology & Ethnology · Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany

Statistics

Experience

Total positions 6
Experience in Education 6 y
Avg length 2 y 8 m
Longest experience 5 y 11 m

Expertise

Recent roles Co-founder & AI Engineer, Data Scientist & Web Development, freelance, Data Scientist
Main industries Education, Automotive, Banking and Finance
Main business areas Business Intelligence, Information Technology, Operations

Qualifications

Highest degree Master

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Niko is based in Karlsdorf-Neuthard, Germany and can operate in on-site, hybrid, and remote work models.
Niko speaks the following languages: German (Native), English (Advanced), Greek (Intermediate), Norwegian (Intermediate).
Niko has at least 13 years of experience. During this time, Niko has worked in at least 5 different roles and for 5 different companies. The average length of individual experience is 2 years and 3 months. Note that Niko may not have shared all experience and actually has more experience.
Based on recent experience, Niko would be well-suited for roles such as: Co-founder & AI Engineer, Data Scientist & Web Development, freelance, Data Scientist.
Niko's most recent position is Co-founder & AI Engineer at KAIKI GmbH.
In recent years, Niko has worked for KAIKI GmbH, Self-employed, and Consulting company.
Niko is most experienced in industries like Education, Automotive, and Banking and Finance. Niko also has some experience in Food and Beverage, Healthcare, and Professional Services.
Niko is most experienced in business areas like Business Intelligence, Information Technology, and Operations. Niko also has some experience in Quality Assurance, Research and Development, and Marketing.
Niko has recently worked in industries like Automotive, Banking and Finance, and Food and Beverage.
Niko has recently worked in business areas like Business Intelligence, Information Technology, and Marketing.
Niko holds a Master in Science Management from University of Speyer and a Master in Sociology & Ethnology from University of Freiburg.
Niko is immediately available part-time for suitable projects.
Niko's rate depends on the specific project requirements. Please use the Meet button on the profile to schedule a meeting and discuss the details.
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