AI Engineers in Munich

• Taught ML, BI, and Big Data to Master's students.

Tech: Python, Power BI, SQL, ML, SnowflakeDB, databricks, MS Fabric, MongoDB, LLM

• Applied modern JavaScript features, including ES6+ syntax, destructuring, modules, array methods, and asynchronous programming, to develop efficient and readable frontend code.
• Implemented frontend integration patterns for PHP and Laravel backend services, connecting React interfaces to REST APIs and handling structured JSON data.
• Developed interactive, functional component-based frontend applications using React Hooks, JavaScript, and TypeScript, alongside backend applications and RESTful APIs using Python, Django, Flask, and FastAPI, focusing on reusable components, modular architecture, maintainability, and efficient data processing.
• Maintained a dynamic portfolio platform using PHP, Laravel, Livewire, and MySQL, implementing end-to-end functionality across frontend interfaces, backend services, and database operations.
• Validated server-side request handling, routing, middleware, and form validation using Laravel features to support reliable application workflows and consistent data processing.
• Designed and managed relational database structures using MySQL and Laravel Eloquent ORM, implementing data models, relationships, database migrations, and efficient queries for content management.
• AI-powered applications integrating Large Language Models (LLMs) through external APIs and locally hosted models, exploring practical use cases for conversational AI, intelligent automation, and AI-assisted workflows.
• Built local AI applications and developer tools for running, configuring, and interacting with locally hosted language models, gaining experience with local inference, model integration, and privacy-conscious AI workflows.
• Explored Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) approaches to combine language models with external knowledge sources, enabling context-aware responses based on relevant application data and retrieved information.
• Integrated AI services with backend APIs and application components, developing reusable modules for model communication, response processing, error handling, and data exchange.

Qlarin helps companies bring AI into the processes they already run, so that pilots become tools teams actually use every day, concept based on Design Thinking and Lean Management.

• Lead the full cycle: process analysis, identifying where AI saves real time, based on the QLARIN method (process clarity first, technology second).

struppilog.com – Digital health record for pets / MVP → Full Product

Design, development, and full further development of a digital health platform for pets – from my own MVP development to a fully built and production-ready platform.

Independent concept and development of the MVP Development of the full application with Flutter/Dart and Firebase Expansion of the MVP into a full digital health record with health data, findings, allergies, medications, documents, and emergency data Development of user registration, authentication, roles, data models, and secure user interactions Implementation of QR-code-based data exchange and digital interaction features Development of a multilingual, responsive web application Integration of AI-supported features and AI/agentic workflows Development and continuous improvement of product logic, UX/UI, and technical architecture Building and expanding a scalable cloud-based solution with Firebase Integration and further development of APIs and external services Use of AI-native / agentic engineering to speed up development, testing, debugging, and product iteration Independent implementation of all other features and technical extensions Continuous further development of the MVP into a full digital product

Impact: The MVP I built myself was continuously developed technically and functionally into a broad, production-ready platform – including frontend, backend, data model, authentication, UX/UI, APIs, cloud infrastructure, and ongoing product development.

Product:

• Built a production-ready AI platform for generating brand-aware marketing images and videos from product data, user requirements, and uploaded media.
• Own the platform architecture, technical roadmap, API design, security, deployment workflow, operational reliability, and model-provider strategy.
• Developed the core platform in .NET and built supporting AI and workflow prototypes in Python, applying language-independent API contracts and structured interfaces between services and model providers.
• Implemented reliable background processing with RabbitMQ, persisted workflow state, idempotent handling, retries, failure recovery, logging, secure storage, authorization, and credit accounting.
• Made pragmatic build-versus-buy and model-routing decisions based on reliability, latency, cost, and maintainability rather than novelty.

Agent Orchestration & RAG Systems

• Built and compared agent workflows using Microsoft Agent Framework, LangGraph, and LangChain, including tool use, conditional routing, clarification steps, state management, and hand-offs between agents.
• Implemented reusable .NET components for agents, prompts, tools, model providers, structured responses, and retrieval with pyvector, making it easier to change AI providers without rewriting the core workflow.

• Partner directly with C-level leadership (CEO, CAIO, CTO) on architecture, OKR strategy, and cross-team roadmap prioritization, translating strategic goals into structured engineering requirements.
• Surfaced and mapped technical debt across the entire organization with C-level leadership and co-defined a prioritized remediation strategy, balancing debt paydown against feature delivery.
• Led code reviews and technical standards across the team, fostering a mentor-first environment with two-way feedback dialogue — pairing on complex pipeline work and unblocking junior engineers on async architecture patterns.
• Re-architected the AI companion's core processing pipeline from synchronous to asynchronous with a queue-based worker architecture, enabling horizontal scalability and cutting upload processing time ~4x (from ~22s to 5–10s) while improving response accuracy.
• Designed an AI-driven document intelligence workflow with automatic multi-document classification, per-document summarization, and relevance guardrails for the patient care journey.
• Built a unified patient memory system (short- and long-term context) bridging the document vault and chatbot into a single bidirectional, context-aware platform.

Loom and Bloom

Python · TypeScript · n8n · Claude Code · Whisper · Gemini · Supabase · Notion · HubSpot · Digital Ocean

• Built an end-to-end content pipeline: one Loom video → marketing images, bilingual LinkedIn posts, newsletter and Help Center updates.
• n8n webhook → SSH → Claude Code session on a Digital Ocean VPS; three MCP servers (video, Notion, Supabase).
• Whisper word-level transcription, ffmpeg screenshots, Gemini UI annotation, PIL device mockups.
• Next.js upload UI plus a bilingual newsletter composer with HubSpot push.

• Deployed and optimized Vision-Language-Action (VLA) and diffusion policy models on NVIDIA Jetson Orin and Jetson Thor, meeting real-time inference latency targets for humanoid robot control loops.
• Built TensorRT engine pipelines (PyTorch → ONNX → TensorRT) with INT8/FP8 post-training quantization, calibration dataset design, and quantization-aware validation, reducing inference memory footprint by over 3× on Jetson without accuracy regression.
• Developed custom CUDA C++ plugins and CUDA Graphs for latency-deterministic, real-time policy execution – meeting hard runtime and memory constraints on embedded GPU targets.
• Developed an inference engine for VLA models on top of llama.cpp bringing different VLA policies under single runtime, packaging each as a single self-contained GGUF that needs no Python or PyTorch.
• Profiled and tuned GPU execution using NVIDIA Nsight Systems and Nsight Compute, identifying CUDA kernel bottlenecks, memory bandwidth saturation, and SM occupancy issues across Jetson Orin and Thor compute profiles for cross-layer performance optimization.

Internal systems with regulatory and security requirements could not be used directly by AI tools for incident triage, troubleshooting, and documentation search. The goal was to securely integrate these systems through MCP while preserving existing acce...

• Completed an intensive AI Engineering Program focused on LLM evaluation, retrieval, agent orchestration, and multimodal workflows.
• Designed retrieval pipelines with document ingestion, semantic search, and citation-aware outputs using LangChain and ChromaDB.
• Built LangGraph-based agent workflows with state handling, clarification loops, and human-in-the-loop approval steps.
• Applied prompt engineering and evaluation patterns, including scoring logic and guardrails, to improve output quality and reliability.
• Worked extensively with Python, FastAPI, OpenAI APIs, LangChain, LangGraph, and ChromaDB in end-to-end implementations.

• Airbus: Forum - feature writing on technology for internal employee magazines
• Bosch: Security and Safety Systems - feature writing and copy writing for industry magazines and social media
• Dassault Systemes: 3DExcite - screenwriting for corporate vision videos on digital transformation
• Deutsche Telekom: Brand & Design - copywriting and translating guidelines and books on design thinking
• GoTo: LogMeIn Rescue & GoTo Admin - UX writing and AI prompt engineering for IT support software
• MTU Aero Engines: Aeroreport - judging and ranking the editorial quality of B2B and B2C translations
• Siemens: Financial Services - copywriting and editing for internal finance sites and newsletters
• Zeiss: Beyond Design System - UX writing for voice & tone guidelines to help improve conversational AI

• Development of an AI-powered project organization tool for a civil engineering company that intelligently links project, task, tender, schedule, and document data through a knowledge graph.
• Implementation of AI features for document analysis, information extraction, context-based assistance, and voice-based data capture based on Microsoft Azure AI, reducing administrative effort, making information available faster, and supporting project teams in decision-making.
• Tech stack: Python, React, TypeScript, FastAPI, Claude Code, Codex, Graphify, PostgreSQL, Microsoft Azure AI Foundry, Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Speech, Azure AI Document Intelligence, Microsoft Graph, Microsoft Entra ID, Docker, Git, CI/CD.

• Built and operated an end-to-end MLOps platform on Azure ML and Kubernetes (Kubeflow) for automated deployment, monitoring and scaling of forecasting models (e.g. Temporal Fusion Transformer, Informer, Autoformer)
• Implemented CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps for the complete ML lifecycle – from resource provisioning (Terraform), data transformation (Hugging Face Datasets, Pandas, PyTorch, CUDA clusters) through training and evaluation to model registry and endpoint deployment
• Integrated MLflow for experiment tracking, model versioning, performance monitoring and automated registration in Azure Model Registry
• Developed and containerized PyTorch training jobs with CUDA (Azure Notebook, Jupyter Notebooks) for price and time series forecasting (PFC models) with automatic rollout via Azure ML endpoints and REST/gRPC interfaces, Docker containerization, secured with OAuth 2.0
• Set up monitoring and alerting mechanisms (Prometheus, MLflow metrics), centralized logging and cost tracking
• Configured security (OAuth2) and rate limiting via APIM
• Automated infrastructure provisioning and model deployment using Terraform, Helm and Azure CLI; integrated with existing market data systems and event pipelines
• Migrated existing workloads and databases (IONOS → Azure, MongoDB) integrating them into central MLOps workflows and internal networks
• Extended the platform with LLM-based tools (LangChain, LangServe) to integrate GPT-based analysis modules into existing Spring Boot services for market anomaly detection and automated reports
• Analyzed and designed a software solution to efficiently process high-volume data (>3000 messages/sec) (market data store)
• Developed Spring Boot / Java 21 containers with RabbitMQ to distribute market data via MongoDB (Kubernetes) with fast data storage in Redis RMaps, deduplication, forwarding of messages to read model queues and building read models for UI display in MongoDB
• Integrated RESTHeart to generate a REST API for MongoDB
• Migrated to MongoDB ClickHouse for mass ingests and automatic deduplication using the ReplicatedMergeTree engine in ClickHouse
• Built a Python Apache Arrow Flight service for querying the ClickHouse DB in milliseconds for complex queries (gRPC protocol / ClickHouse column-based queries)
• Developed an Angular frontend to simplify data queries and master data maintenance
• Used agentic coding with remote and local LLMs (Claude, Ollama Qwen, OpenLLM) and MCP servers
• Created Python scripts for transforming and cleaning incoming market data (Pandas, scikit-learn)

• Clarification of project objectives, scope and the target business vision for building the AI-based knowledge database.
• Derivation of the initial architecture and implementation strategy for the Zasterbot chatbot, including separation of the MVP and further development stages.
• Development of a target business vision for building a structured knowledge database and integrating a future chatbot.
• Derivation and prioritization of use cases for information retrieval and provision by the chatbot.
• Modeling of data structures and flows for the effective organization of the knowledge database on the Base44 platform.
• Design and implementation of data models for storing and linking relevant information.
• Development of processes for extracting, analyzing and preparing raw data for the knowledge database.
• Ensuring data consistency and quality as the basis for the future chatbot.
• Planning the integration of Large Language Models (LLMs) and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) for precise and context-specific answers.
• Implementation of functions for analyzing and displaying data from the knowledge database.
• Use of the Base44 platform with JSON Schema-based entities and a flexible permission concept.
• Implementation of Deno functions for backend logic, event processing and connecting external APIs.
• Integration of OpenAI services for initial data analysis.