Thomas L.-Consultant for AI, Electronics Development and System Integration
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Experience
Consultant for AI-supported process automation
Lumiz
AI-supported automation of purchases on a printing company website, including the selection of delivery times, order options, ordering, payment and uploading print data from the Lumiz cloud.
AI Workshop
Schrack Technik Österreich
1-day AI potential analysis workshop for the management and department heads of Schrack Technik Österreich.
Co-Initiator and Technical Lead
Projekt Kischdle (Business Concept)
Business concept developed together with another potential co-founder: On-Premise AI system with consumer GPU and Retrieval Augmented Generation, intended as an SME product.
My responsibilities included technical feasibility assessment, market analysis, target group definition, estimation of the addressable market and concept development.
Proof-of-Concept: Selection and procurement of the Proof-of-Concept hardware, implementation of the AI system inference component with Nvidia GPU, OpenAI gpt-oss-20b LLM, Ollama and Open WebUI, as well as performance tests.
Multimodal extension: PyTorch environment for multimodal AI models (image and text), evaluation of the inference model Qwen3-VL-8B and the embedding model tomoro-colqwen3-embed-4b.
Evaluation of Langflow for workflow automation with AI agents.
AI Workshop
Safe4Net
AI potential analysis workshop (divided into 2 days) for the management of Safe4Net.
Consultant for AI and System Integration
ASMPT SMT Solutions
AI workshop with training, practical examples for processing ASMPT-specific data formats with Machine Learning and Generative AI, and AI use case identification and evaluation.
Internal tool for AUTOSAR XML generation: AI-supported documentation of the transformation logic, extensions, optimizations and bug fixes.
Standardization of the System Integration test environments and creation of the associated Vector CANalyzer configurations to increase efficiency by standardizing the test stations.
Design of a Python client for analyzing messages in the internal Ethernet fieldbus protocol.
Development of a Python tool for converting placement machine trace data for Vector CANalyzer.
Consultant for System Integration
ASMPT SMT Solutions
Significant contribution to the concept and introduction of a new industrial Ethernet fieldbus, including validation of Ethernet protocols and middleware to establish the best solution.
Creation of test environments and tools for verification and test automation.
Development of C++, Python and CAPL programs to enable the continued use of the existing CAN bus analysis tools with the new Ethernet fieldbus.
Evaluation of Ethernet analysis devices and software: Vector Ethernet interface hardware VN5640 and VN5650; Vector CANalyzer software with TCP/IP API, CAPL programs and AUTOSAR ARXML, optimized for data recording at the full Gigabit Ethernet data rate; GL Communications PacketExpert Gigabit Ethernet Tester.
Discovery of sporadic timing deviations in an Ethernet analysis device, setup of a high-precision time reference using an inexpensive GPS module, identification of a significant specification violation in the hardware time base.
Consultant, Function Owner of a specialized diagnostic software
Magna Electronics
LIDAR Compute Module: Bring-up support, lab tests, fault analysis, identification of all hardware data sources and requirements creation for specialized diagnostic software.
Function Owner of a specialized diagnostic software: Concept development of the specialized diagnostic software for the LIDAR system, management of features, requirements, tasks, reviews and defects, monitoring of the implementation in the AUTOSAR LIDAR Compute Module software and in the Vector CANoe-based tester software, CANoe GUI design and CAPL code development. The specialized diagnostic software enabled design verification at an early development stage.
RF Consultant
Kathrein.net.tech
Commissioning, evaluation and optimization of transceiver modules.
Automation of RF tests using Matlab and Ruby.
Consultant for Signal Integrity
Infineon
Signal Integrity and Power Integrity simulations of IC packages and PCBs. Detection of an RF design error on an evaluation board; the design correction prevented a delay in IC evaluation and board redesign costs. Development of a special PCB clock distribution network enabled operation of a test IC despite a clock driver with extremely steep edges.
Simulations and optimization of the chip-PCB transitions of 77 GHz ADAS radar MMICs.
EM field simulations for model extraction of IC packages and PCBs.
Development of Matlab and Python programs.
RF Consultant
Alcatel-Lucent
Light Radio project, active antenna array for 2,5 GHz LTE: Verification measurements on the RX path; redesign of the RF front-end receiver resulted in a 28 % area reduction and improved performance. Matlab programming for controlling DUTs and measurement equipment, test automation and system evaluations. Discovery of sporadic transceiver RF instability; using the DUT as an RF network analyzer avoided time-consuming troubleshooting in normal operating mode.
Metro WiFi Access Point project, IEEE-802.11-a/b/g/n module: Setup of evaluation test benches, verification measurements, optimization of AGC and blocking characteristics. Calculation of system margins for LTE TX / WiFi RX collocation. Support for ETSI certification. Creation of test routines with Matlab and embedded Linux programming of the WiFi SoC.
Head of RF Integration (from Oct. 2009 Principal Member of Technical Staff)
Ubidyne
Built and led a group of up to 10 employees. Created the development process, including CAD software, component libraries, laboratory setup, Subversion repository and quality assurance.
Project management focused on achieving highly demanding targets.
Created and reviewed specifications for 3GPP UMTS and LTE systems, modules and RF filters. Developed module architectures in cooperation with System Engineering and ASIC designers.
Responsible for approx. 240 setups from DC to 3.6 Gb/s, including design, assembly, commissioning, evaluation and optimization, as well as support for system integration: evaluation boards for Ubidyne GaAs, SiGe and CMOS ASICs, multistandard transceiver modules for active antennas at 900 MHz and 2.1 GHz.
Technology selection for printed circuit boards, ceramic substrates, RF filters and housings.
Cooperation with EMS companies, printed circuit board manufacturers, Toshiba, Ferdinand-Braun-Institut and antenna manufacturers Kathrein, Andrew and Huber & Suhner.
Development Engineer (from Apr. 2004 Senior Engineer)
Toshiba Electronics Europe
Participated in the OIF standardization committee (Toshiba transceiver IC for OIF-CEI-compliant backplane transmission links up to 11 Gb/s) and MIPI (contributed to the D-PHY specification for serial data transmission up to 1 Gb/s per lane in mobile phones).
Consultant for RF and signal integrity issues for various departments. Detailed electrical analyses of IC packages with up to 11 Gb/s and 1444 balls.
Evaluation and selection of RF development software.
Development Engineer
Multilink Technology
Equalizer ICs for backplane systems up to 12.5 Gb/s: calculation of mixed-mode S-parameters and crosstalk for backplane systems and design of adaptive equalizers at system level.
10 Gb/s and 40 Gb/s fiber-optic systems: Managed cooperation with two universities and system simulations to determine the requirements for electrical equalizer ICs.
- 1 Gb/s 8:32 CMOS demultiplexer IC: BGA package design, test strategy and printed circuit board development.
Development Engineer
Siemens
Responsible for a 1.8 GHz RX frontend module for GSM mobile communications base stations: project coordination, architecture definition, system simulation, circuit design, layout, evaluation of laboratory samples and prototypes, and production introduction.
Qualification and production introduction of a 10 GHz VCO.
Layout and assembly technology for 40 Gb/s high-speed digital modules for fiber-optic systems.
Research Associate
Ferdinand-Braun-Institut für Höchstfrequenztechnik
Generation of electrical transients in the picosecond range using nonlinear diode lines. Based on this work: external doctorate at TU Berlin, completed part-time in 2001.
Modeling, simulation, layout and measurement of GaAs MMICs. Development of GaAs MMIC sampling circuits with transients up to 7 ps and harmonics up to 140 GHz.
Electromagnetic field simulations of coplanar transmission-line structures up to 1 THz.
Development of a broadband low-power transimpedance amplifier GaAs MMIC for 100 MHz to 6 GHz.
Student Assistant
Ferdinand-Braun-Institut für Höchstfrequenztechnik
Modeling passive elements, diodes, and transistors on GaAs wafers.
Student Assistant
Hahn-Meitner-Institut
Design and construction of ultra-wideband amplifiers from 10 kHz – 16 GHz, including the development and implementation of a new method for temperature compensation.
Industry experience
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Experienced in Telecommunication, Manufacturing, Automotive, Government and Administration, and Information Technology.
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Experienced in Product Development, Research and Development, Quality Assurance, Project Management, Information Technology, and Business Intelligence.
Summary
Many companies have now introduced initial AI tools without achieving any significant added value. I help them use Generative AI in a way that delivers concrete and measurable benefits.
I am Dr.-Ing. Thomas Langer, TÜV-certified AI Consultant and owner of the DesTEngS engineering office in Unterhaching near Munich. Since 2011, I have been supporting companies as a freelancer in the design, implementation and verification of demanding technical solutions. Since 2025, my focus has been on Generative AI.
DesTEngS combines expertise from more than 30 years of practical engineering work in the development, testing and System Integration of new electronics with current specialist knowledge and practical experience in Generative AI. This enables customized solutions that go beyond the introduction of standard products and are precisely tailored to the company’s individual processes and data.
Specifically, I offer AI training, AI potential analysis workshops with the identification and evaluation of suitable use cases, roadmap development and support during implementation, as well as AI implementations such as Retrieval Augmented Generation, LLM Fine-Tuning or On-Premise AI on the customer’s GPU hardware. In addition, I provide classic engineering services: concept development, Requirements Engineering, Software Design and System Integration.
What I am currently working on: Local AI server with a consumer graphics card for everyday business tasks: determining the optimal combination of AI models for processing text, speech and images. Environment based on Claude Cowork for agentic marketing optimization in 25 subfields, with a file-based knowledge base, Git repository and checkpoints that can only be created by humans. Claude Code for developing business applications for a local AI server.
Skills
AI:
- Ai Potential Analysis And Ai Strategy Development
- Ai Training
- Ai Implementation
- Prompt Engineering, Context Engineering
- Multimodal Ai (Text, Image, Audio)
- Gdpr-Compliant Ai Applications
- Ai Software: Miro, Notion, Fireflies.Ai, Gamma, Canva
- Generative Ai (Genai) / Large Language Models (Llms): How They Work, Web Interface Chat, Chat Via Api, Fine-Tuning, On-Premise, Llm Evaluation
- Mixture Of Experts (Moe), Reasoning Models, Function Calling / Tool Use
- Practical Experience With Openai Gpts, Google Gemini, Anthropic Opus, Sonnet, Haiku As Well As On-Premise Gpt-Oss-20b, Qwen3-Vl-8b, Qwen3.5-9b, Qwen3.6-27b
- Supervised Fine-Tuning (Sft) Of A Gpt-4o-Mini Llm
- Agentic Ai, Coding Ai Agent Environments
- Manus, Perplexity, Microsoft Visual Studio / Visual Studio Code With Copilot, Vscodium With Cline, Claude Code, Claude Cowork
- Model Context Protocol (Mcp)
- Natural Language Processing (Nlp)
- Retrieval Augmented Generation (Rag)
- Chunking Strategies
- Embedding Models, Practical Experience With Openai Text-Embedding-3-Small, On-Premise Tomoro-Colqwen3-Embed-4b
- Vector Databases, Practical Experience With Pinecone, On-Premise Qdrant
- Edge Ai / On-Premise Ai Infrastructure (Selection, Setup And Operation)
- Consumer-Gpu-Inference (Nvidia Blackwell Architecture, Rtx 50 Series, Cuda Toolkit)
- Llm Quantization: 8-Bit Inference (Fp8), 4-Bit Inference (Mxfp4, Iq4 Xs, Nvfp4)
- Gguf And Safetensors Models
- Ollama, Hugging Face Transformers, Pytorch, Llama.Cpp, Open Webui
Software Design:
- Object-Oriented Programming, Event-Driven Programming, Procedural Programming
- Process Automation (Ui.Vision, Pyautogui, N8n, Langflow)
- Python With Various Modules (E.G. Numpy, Pandas And Matplotlib For Data Analysis, Fastapi For Rest Apis, Pyshark For Processing Ethernet Trace Files, Pyautogui For Automation, Tkinter For Gui Programming, Transformers, Openai, Anthropic And Tiktoken For Ai Applications)
- C++, C, Capl
- Matlab
- Javascript
- Html, Php, Xml, Json, Markdown
Methodology:
- Concept Development
- Feasibility Studies
- Requirements Analysis / Requirements Engineering
- Specification Development
- Technology Evaluation And Selection
- System Architecture And Design
- Sw Architecture And Design
- Verification And Validation
- System Integration
- Technical Documentation
- Systematic Fault Analysis
- Project Management
IT:
- Ms Windows, Unix Including Linux, Embedded Linux And Hosted Linux Server
- Ms Office / Libreoffice
- Ms Azure Devops Server / Team Foundation Server, Ptc Integrity, Subversion Server, Git
- Virtual Machines Based On Vmware Workstation And Linux Kvm/Qemu, Docker Containers, Podman Pods
- Nextcloud, N8n
Engineering Software:
- Vector Canalyzer, Canape, Canoe
- Ansys Electronics Desktop, Hfss, Q3d, Siwave
- Keysight Ads Including Momentum, Sipro/Pipro And Ael Programming
- Cst
Measurement Technology:
- Data Network Performance With Wireshark, Iperf3, Vector Informatik Ethernet And Can Bus Test Equipment, Gl Communications Packetexpert Gigabit Ethernet Tester
- S-Parameters With Network Analyzers Up To 110 Ghz, On-Wafer And Coaxial, Calibration, De-Embedding And Mixed-Mode S-Parameters
- Time-Domain Measurements With Sampling Oscilloscopes Up To 50 Ghz And Real-Time Oscilloscopes Up To 13 Ghz
Languages
Education
Technische Universität Berlin
Dr.-Ing., computer-aided design of nonlinear transmission lines for generating electrical transients in · Electrical Engineering, computer-aided design of nonlinear transmission lines for generating electrical transients in · Berlin, Germany
Technische Universität Berlin
Dipl.-Ing. Elektrotechnik, specialization in High-Frequency Engineering · Electrical Engineering, specialization in High-Frequency Engineering · Berlin, Germany
Certifications & licenses
AI Consultant (TÜV certified)
TÜV Rheinland
AI Consultant
AI Training Institute
Statistics
Experience
Global experience
Expertise
Qualifications
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Thomas is based in Unterhaching, Germany and can operate in on-site, hybrid, and remote work models.
Thomas speaks the following languages: German (Native), English (Advanced).
Thomas has at least 33 years of experience. During this time, Thomas has worked in at least 13 different roles and for 15 different companies. The average length of individual experience is 2 years and 11 months. Note that Thomas may not have shared all experience and actually has more experience.
Based on recent experience, Thomas would be well-suited for roles such as: Consultant for AI-supported process automation, AI Workshop, Co-Initiator and Technical Lead.
Thomas's most recent position is Consultant for AI-supported process automation at Lumiz.
In recent years, Thomas has worked for Lumiz, Schrack Technik Österreich, Projekt Kischdle (Business Concept), Safe4Net, and ASMPT SMT Solutions.
Thomas is most experienced in industries like Telecommunication, Manufacturing, and Government and Administration. Thomas also has some experience in Automotive, Information Technology, and Construction.
Thomas is most experienced in business areas like Product Development, Research and Development, and Quality Assurance. Thomas also has some experience in Project Management, Information Technology, and Business Intelligence.
Thomas has recently worked in industries like Manufacturing, Information Technology, and Construction.
Thomas has recently worked in business areas like Product Development, Quality Assurance, and Information Technology.
Thomas holds a Doctorate in Electrical Engineering, computer-aided design of nonlinear transmission lines for generating electrical transients in from Technische Universität Berlin and a Master in Electrical Engineering, specialization in High-Frequency Engineering from Technische Universität Berlin.
Thomas has 2 certificates. These include: AI Consultant (TÜV certified) and AI Consultant.
Thomas will be available full-time from April 2027.
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