ANT+ Experts in Dresden

• Understand the customer’s business & technical requirements and translate them into system / technical requirements
• Design and implement Schrodinger’s applications on cloud systems, and experience convincing senior management and senior technical staff of the benefits of their journey with Schrodinger on the cloud
• Provide exceptional technical design and thought leadership, especially around AWS, GCP, and K8s architecture reviews, performance, high availability, cost, and security
• Deep understanding of the Well-Architected pillars and all best practices for building a secure, performant Schrodinger’s applications on the cloud platforms
• Lead technical workshops and advise customers on architectural and strategic IT decisions
• Ensure success in designing, building and migrating applications, software, and services on the cloud platforms
• Educate customers on best practices to ensure their solutions are designed for successful deployment in the cloud
• Work with other team members to ensure quality and customer success
• Define the tickets, tasks, and timelines of projects
• Collaborate with account managers to ensure that the projects are executed according to the defined plan and timeline
• Monitor the progress of the projects, identify risks and issues, and take proactive measures to mitigate them
• Lead and inspire cloud architect teams, provide guidance, and make critical decisions
• Facilitate effective communication and collaboration among team members
• Collaborate with Schrodinger’s managers to improve deployment, support, and configuration of Schrodinger’s applications
• Lead weekly standups and define priorities

• Supported research in continuum mechanics with emphasis on finite element modeling, material behavior, wear mechanics, and coupled PDE formulations.
• Developed and validated numerical simulations, performed data processing and analysis, and contributed to technical publications.
• Assisted with automation scripts, preparation of figures and documentation, and day-to-day project coordination to ensure smooth research progress.
• Implementation of algorithms is performed in Fortran and Python.

• Strategic corporate management: developing vision and strategy, defining long-term goals, planning market positioning
• Market analysis: monitoring and evaluating trends and technologies
• Developing the business model: identifying new business areas, e.g. cloud, managed services, security
• Commercial management: budget planning and controlling: managing revenue, costs, profitability, and liquidity
• Reviewing annual financial statements and balance sheets: working with tax advisors/auditors
• Contracts and legal matters: reviewing and approving contracts, data protection, IT law
• People management: team leadership, communicating company goals
• Employee development: training, recruiting, career planning
• Organizational development: designing structures and processes efficiently
• Technology and project responsibility: making technology decisions: selecting IT systems, partners (Red Hat, Cisco, HP), and tools
• Project oversight: monitoring major customer projects, ensuring quality and timelines
• Promoting innovation: supporting agile methods, DevOps, automation
• Sales and customer management: supporting key customers, building and maintaining customer relationships
• Quotations and negotiations: calculating offers, negotiating contracts with customers
• Marketing and external presence: positioning the brand, taking part in events/trade fairs
• Cooperations and partnerships: maintaining vendor contacts, working with Red Hat, Cisco, HP; certifications and partnerships: maintaining and expanding relevant certifications: LPIC-1, Red Hat, PMP, AWS
• IT security and compliance: ensuring information security, following ISO 27001 and BSI basic protection; implementing data protection: ensuring GDPR compliance

• Take full technical ownership of the development and planning of electrical grid infrastructure.
• Support the preparation of building permit applications and approval documents; maintain direct communication with grid operators, certification bodies, and other key stakeholders.
• Design and calculate electrical network components, including cable routing, compensation systems, protection and storage systems; conduct power system studies (load flow and short-circuit analysis).
• Independently plan grid connection concepts, substations, transformer stations, and transfer stations across multiple voltage levels.
• Supervise construction projects, oversee commissioning and billing processes, and coordinate all contractors and companies involved in on-site execution.

• Technical and professional management of software and ML development; largely independent implementation of programming and guidance of the team and external project partners
• Design, creation, and preparation of training and test data sets from experimental image data and simulations
• Selection, implementation, training, validation, and testing of neural networks for image-based reconstruction and transformation
• Systematic evaluation, comparison, and optimization of various model architectures (convolutional neural networks, generative adversarial networks, autoencoders, transformers)
• Design and implementation of explainable AI analyses for model interpretability and robustness assessment (analysis of feature maps, augmentation studies, guided backpropagation)
• Presentation of the developed methods and results in project meetings and at international conferences

• responsibility for product, process & service quality: APQP, PPAP, FMEA, MSA, SPC, PLP including change management as well as NC & CAPA management.

• expanded QM system scope to include service; systematic review of all production control plans regarding reliability.

• logistics process optimization using Lean Six Sigma; concept development, rollout, and training of all responsible stakeholders.

• optimization of the complaint process with RMA, FA, and 8D process; reporting of quality performance.

• introduction & coordination of Standardized Supplier Quality Assessment (SSQA) for maturity assessment and further development.

• implementation of Brooks Process Certification with PQP, 5S, Safety, audits, and annual audit plan including follow-up actions.

• achievements: improved product & refurbishment reliability by 25%; reduced turnaround time for failure analysis by 60% and complaints by 55%; improved the SSQA maturity score by 2.8 points.

• Developed a comprehensive business concept for a medical fall detection device based on a patented process registered in Germany
• Identified and collected use cases for medical device deployment in residential buildings and healthcare provider facilities
• Expanded the product scope to industry standards such as HL7/FHIR and designed a product based on modern communication protocols for IIoT
• Supported offshoring activities, defined SLA and scope-of-work documents for development teams after selecting various vendors
• Identified and selected hardware components (Terrabee, E-Con Systems) for LIDAR/TDOA functions
• Defined integrated AI features and LLM models for patient fall detection as well as AI-based audio triggers
• Oversaw the implementation of algorithms for object detection, fall detection, and false alarm identification

• Primary Research:
• Developed a compact (<700M parameters) generative vision-language model for whole slide image (WSI) by refining image tokenisation.
• Established an improved evaluation framework, including a curated question-answering dataset and metric selection.
• In preparation for submission.
• Collaboration:
• Conducting research in digital biomarker discovery in computational pathology (CPath) using AI methods.
• Collaborated on projects with international partners, including the Francis Crick Institute (Molecular biomarker prediction in Clear-cell renal carcinoma), HeCOG Greece (Lynch syndrome identification in colorectal carcinoma and Multimodal survival prediction for Prostate adenocarcinoma) and the National Cancer Center Hospital Japan (HIBIRD).
• The work with the Francis Crick Institute is currently being prepared for submission. The collaborative work in Japan has already been published, and the HeCOG projects are ongoing.
• Consortium:
• Manage inter-institutional collaboration and objectives as the KatherLab representative for the LiSYM Consortium.
• Teaching:
• Conducted online workshop sessions for two years at the Clinicum Digitale, educating physicians and medical students on the fundamentals of AI and Python skills.
• Led a multimodal foundation model workshop at the AI in Cancer Research Summer School in Corfu, organized as part of ESAC.
• Presented a talk on vision-language models at the AI in Medicine Summer School, a collaborative event by EKFZ, GENIAL, the TransformLiver Consortium, and ESAC.

• Analyze project specifications
• Define the right technical solution to fit project requirements
• Communicate with customers, external and internal stakeholders to define technical scope and resolve technical disputes
• Prepare compliance statements to project specifications
• Responsible for the parameterization, operation, testing (FAT) and troubleshooting of system for SCADA/DMS/OMS applications
• Major project handled: ADMS system implementation for UGVCL & TPL, Gujarat, India

• Further development of framework components and services in the Enterprise Banking Control Platform (EGP Framework), a set of cross-cutting libraries and services for all bounded context scopes of the platform.
• Migration from Java 17 to Java 21 and from Spring Boot 3.2 to 3.4 in about 80 library and service repositories (updating Maven POMs, Dockerfiles, Jenkins pipelines, source code migration, test updates).
• Writing unit and integration tests with JUnit and JGiven.
• Performing and analyzing performance measurements with Dynatrace.
• Enhancing multi-stage CI/CD pipelines (unit tests, security analyses, Docker builds, Harbor deployments, ...).
• Tech stack used: Java (90%), Python (10%), Spring Boot, JPA/Hibernate, JGiven, OpenAPI, Camunda 7, Podman, OpenShift/Kubernetes, Oracle DB, SonarQube, Dynatrace, Jenkins, Harbor, Bitbucket, Jira, Confluence.

CHP cooperative value chain West Saxony Building new connections between OEM, TIER1, TIER2 and suppliers for smaller batches

• Working as a CSV (Computer System Validation) Engineer in QA
• Primary focus on corporate project: implementation of the manufacturing execution system (MES)
• Assisted in the planning and coordination of multiple sub-projects, maintaining project documentation
• Adept validation life cycle according to GAMP 5 (URS-FS-DS-FAT-SAT-IQ-OQ-PQ) to ensure compliance with regulatory standards
• Reviewed and approved master batch record (MBR) validation reports
• Monitored project performance against KPIs, ensuring continuous alignment with business goals and project scopes
• Managed the validation and integration of the SAP-MES interface, demonstrating a strong command of computer system validation (CSV) principles
• Experienced with quality management systems, for instance TrackWise
• Facilitated daily cross-departmental communication and alignment with external suppliers to ensure project milestones are met on schedule

• Lecturer for leadership development, new work culture, account management, project leadership, strategy & team leadership, communication, future skills and project management

• Benchmarked multiple LLMs for genomic prediction tasks, ensuring rigorous evaluation across architectures and datasets.
• Extended and streamlined in-lab LLM architecture, enhancing interpretability and broadening applicability.
• Identified sequence and epigenetic factors underlying human genome stability, enabling deeper insights into their distinct roles in genome biology.
• Mentored and designed projects for several master’s students and interns, leading to highly graded reports and development of pipelines with lab-wide applications.