Apache Airflow Experts in Berlin

Led FP&A tech transformation for a 9-figure business – from resolving legacy technical debt to leading AI-native EPM implementation

• Driving end-to-end FP&A transformation, from architecture redesign through EPM tool selection to rollout
• Ran evaluation of 12+ EPM platforms, from vendor negotiation to selection framework tied to long-term planning
• Diagnosed constraints in financial planning architecture, presented findings to the CFO, and secured executive mandate to redesign FP&A infrastructure from the ground up

• Mentor team of 6 ML platform engineers through weekly 1:1s, technical design reviews, and best practices, improving team velocity by 35% through structured sprint planning and skill development programs
• Define 2025–2026 ML platform roadmap in collaboration with Data Science, Cloud Engineering, and Product teams, prioritizing automated model governance, cost attribution systems, and multi-environment deployment strategies
• Partner with Data Science, SRE, and Product stakeholders to align ML platform capabilities with business objectives, reducing data scientist deployment friction by 60% through self-service platforms
• Architect and deliver production-grade MLOps platform supporting 50+ models in production with automated promotion pipelines, versioning, and rollback capabilities, achieving 99.5% platform uptime SLA
• Design distributed ML pipeline architecture using Metaflow and Argo Workflows (Vertex Pipelines-compatible), reducing model training time by 30% and deployment cycles from 2 weeks to 3 days through full CI/CD automation
• Build containerized ML services on Kubernetes with auto-scaling policies, resource quotas, and multi-tenancy isolation, optimizing infrastructure costs by $180K annually (25% reduction)
• Implement monitoring, alerting, and performance tracking using Prometheus, Grafana, and custom instrumentation, reducing model debugging time by 50% and establishing model performance SLOs
• Lead development of RAG-based document intelligence platform using LangChain, LangGraph, and vector databases, implementing agentic AI workflows for automated financial document processing
• Implement Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform for reproducible environment provisioning and GitOps workflows, reducing infrastructure drift incidents by 80%
• Design role-based access control for ML platform, implement model lineage tracking, and establish audit trails for regulatory compliance aligned with enterprise IAM best practices

• Designed and developed AI-powered document processing solutions using Python, OCR, NLP, and Large Language Models (LLMs) to automate extraction, validation, and classification of financial documents, reducing processing time by 75%.
• Built intelligent multi-stage workflow automation pipelines integrating AI services, machine learning models, and enterprise systems to streamline financial operations and improve data quality.
• Developed reusable AI-driven transformation frameworks capable of processing structured and unstructured document formats (XML, CSV, JSON, TXT, DAT) and normalizing them into unified business schemas.
• Designed and developed Python-based REST APIs and backend services supporting enterprise finance applications and high-volume data processing workloads.
• Built scalable data synchronization pipelines between Oracle CFIN and SQL databases, incorporating machine learning models for cash-flow forecasting and AP/AR anomaly detection.
• Architected and deployed Apache Airflow workflows to orchestrate AI-powered data pipelines, automating end-to-end processing from document ingestion through financial system integration.
• Led the migration of critical enterprise integrations from MuleSoft to Python-based services, improving maintainability, performance, and operational flexibility while preserving complete data integrity.
• Managed the full API lifecycle including solution design, implementation, documentation, deployment, monitoring, and production support for mission-critical financial systems.
• Collaborated directly with finance stakeholders to identify business challenges, define solution requirements, and deliver measurable operational improvements through automation and AI-driven workflows.
• Worked closely with cross-functional engineering and business teams to rapidly iterate on features, improve processes, and drive successful adoption of AI-enabled solutions.
• Provided technical leadership through architecture reviews, technology decisions, code reviews, and engineering best practices across integration and automation initiatives.
• Mentored developers, established coding standards, and contributed to improving software quality, maintainability, and delivery effectiveness across projects.
• Provided production support during critical month-end and quarter-close financial processes, performing root-cause analysis and implementing rapid fixes to ensure system reliability and data accuracy.

• Designed and deployed enterprise Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) applications using LangChain, LangGraph, vector databases, embeddings, and open-source LLMs served through vLLM on GCP GPU infrastructure.
• Built agentic AI workflows using LangGraph with planning, reasoning, tool execution, persistent memory, session management, and Human-in-the-Loop approval mechanisms.
• Developed LLM-powered automation systems integrating BigQuery, SQL pipelines, and external advertising APIs including Meta, TikTok, Amazon, Snapchat, Google, and Pinterest, reducing manual operational workflows.
• Architected multi-agent AI systems for enterprise analytics and decision-support workflows, enabling autonomous task execution and intelligent data interactions.
• Implemented retrieval optimization strategies including multi-retriever architectures, semantic search, context optimization, and query improvement techniques, improving response relevance by approximately 40%.
• Engineered structured prompting strategies, function-calling schemas, and validation workflows to improve reliability of multi-step LLM applications.
• Designed scalable AI services using Python, FastAPI, Cloud Run, Pub/Sub, BigQuery, Docker, and cloud-native deployment architectures.

• Fractional leadership; consulting growth-stage startups and scale-ups on data strategy, ML products, and platform foundations
• Building decisioning systems for growth, personalization, & product experimentation, across e-Commerce, Digital Health, Energy, and Logistics
• Exploring Agentic AI & LLM-based tooling for production readiness patterns

• Designed and implemented a hybrid recommendation system (content-based + collaborative filtering)
• Built end-to-end ML pipelines including data processing, feature engineering, model training, and evaluation
• Developed RAG-based LLM systems using LangChain and vector databases for semantic search and knowledge retrieval
• Established MLOps workflows with MLflow for experiment tracking, versioning, and deployment readiness
• Implemented deep learning models (computer vision & classification) using PyTorch and TensorFlow

• Delivered AI and data science solutions, including LLM-based chatbots and data pipelines, improving operational efficiency.
• Collaborated on product features, achieving measurable impact and maintaining strong client relationships.

Tasks: Design and operation of end-to-end cloud data platforms for enterprise clients in publishing and finance, including infrastructure automation, pipeline development, monitoring, and data quality.

Activities:

• Built multi-layer data architectures on Databricks (Apache Spark, Delta Lake), BigQuery, and GCP
• Fully automated cloud infrastructure with Terraform across 3 environments (DEV/STG/PRD)
• Developed automated data pipelines with Python, dbt, and GCP services for different data sources
• Built monitoring and alerting systems for real-time platform monitoring
• Implemented data versioning and quality checks at every layer
• Designed automated test and deployment pipelines in GitLab and Bitbucket

Achievements:

• 2× production data processing capacity, reduced spike response time from minutes to ≤15 s, server errors ≈ 0
• Replaced 3,000 lines of manual configuration with a reusable automation module for 7 customer domains, configuration errors to 0
• Delivered a complete end-to-end data platform at ~€10/month infrastructure cost
• Migrated 7 database tables with 0 downstream issues
• Removed 100% exposed credentials, eliminated external vendor dependency
• Delivered integration of 3 teams in 1 sprint

• Acted as technical consultant to optimize multi-layer ensemble models combining ResNet, CNN-BiGRU-Attention, and XGBoost.
• Guided implementation of a Logistic Regression meta-learner to solve class imbalance problems, achieving 92.86% accuracy and 0.9644 AUC on PTB-XL and Chapman-Shaoxing datasets.

• Spearheading investor outreach and partnership development as founding MD, building the business case and technical narrative needed to attract initial funding and strategic collaborators in the digital health space
• Designing multi-agent AI systems for autonomous biosignal analysis, orchestrating LLM-based reasoning pipelines with domain-specific medical context to enable intelligent, clinical decision support

• Assessment of the existing reporting landscape and strategic bundling of needs
• Migration and consolidation of reports to Metabase, connected to ClickHouse as the data foundation
• Building and maintaining data pipelines

Stack: Metabase · ClickHouse · Appsmith · Airflow

• Develop and demonstrate solutions using GenAI software like langchain, vercel ai sdk, copilotkit
• Work with customers to understand their challenges and provide the best solutions based on open-source data products
• Build RAG and GraphRAG solutions using Neo4j, lancedb, and Postgres
• Deploy a LLMOps platform using kubernetes, terraform, helmfile, Arize phoenix, mlflow
• Architect and build data pipelines using dbt, Trino, Spark, Iceberg, Airflow, ArgoCD, terraform, kubernetes
• Delivered user-centred technical strategy for Agriculture 4.0 and precision livestock farming, helping my client secure funding from Bpifrance
• Delivered a prospecting tool for a leading French solar carport installer, using geospatial computing (GIS), speeding up the sales process
• Built digital twin architecture for solar carports and EV chargers, making real-time monitoring and smart charging possible

• Delivered a new notifications platform implementation built from scratch to replace existing and upcoming services
• Collaborating with other teams to integrate more domains

Tech stack:

• Data: Scala 3, Apache Kafka, Python, Airflow, Astronomer
• BE-FE: TypeScript, NestJS, Java, Spring Boot, Vue
• Dev-ops: AWS, PostgreSQL, Docker, GitHub Actions, Kubernetes, Helm, ArgoCD

• Responsible for cross-department requirements management in collaboration with business units, IT, and external vendors
• Gathering, structuring, consolidating, and prioritizing business requirements from various company departments
• Modeling and documenting business processes using BPMN as a basis for transparency and further development of existing solutions
• Analyzing existing business processes and identifying optimization opportunities
• Refining business requirements with regard to feasibility, cost-effectiveness, and impact on adjacent processes
• Facilitating business alignment sessions with relevant stakeholders to refine requirements and support decision-making
• Creating actionable business concepts for IT development
• Supporting implementation, testing, and rollout of new or adjusted solutions
• Assisting in standardizing requirements and processes to build a reliable decision-making foundation