Azure OpenAI Service Experts in Munich

• Overall responsibility for the project lifecycle from scope definition to completion
• Close collaboration with platform teams, IT leaders, and external service providers
• Application of SAFe principles and structured sprint work
• Creation of a migration roadmap with clear milestones
• Monitoring of the lifecycle: onboarding, repository migration, replication of permissions, and system tests
• Visualization of the architecture with PlantUML and Gliffy as well as documentation in Confluence
• Regular status reports and running knowledge transfer sessions

AI Assistance and Target Vision for Partially Autonomous Energy Portfolio Management

Building an AI control layer directly on the up-to-date daily live portfolio of a large energy provider — not as an isolated pilot, but as an operational extension of the existing DB1 and portfolio management. The goal is the gradual development from assistance through monitoring/alerting to analysis agents with Human-in-the-Loop approvals, supplemented by a role-specific System of Engagement alongside the BI System of Record. At the same time, the business case, target vision and management pitch compared with static monthly reporting are being developed.

• AI control layer: Design and build on the existing live portfolio data product (several million contracts) — development stages assistance → monitoring/alerting → agents with Human-in-the-Loop approvals.
• LLM-supported data analysis: Semantic queries, SQL/tool integration and additional RAG components based on portfolio, plan-versus-actual and data quality data (Azure OpenAI, Snowflake), with drill-downs to individual contract level.
• Analysis agents: Multi-stage agents for variance and driver analyses of churn, price adjustments, volumes and procurement costs.
• Views concept: Role-specific interfaces for business units, management and C-level as a System of Engagement alongside the BI System of Record.
• Business case & pitch: Target vision and cost-benefit argumentation compared with static monthly reporting.
• LLM setup (privacy & security): Coordination with IT Security and Data Protection — EU region, data separation and approval processes.
• Agent architecture: Multi-stage agent pipelines (analysis → validation → summary) with documented data sources, tool calls, review steps and source references for each statement.
• Data foundation: Built on the up-to-date daily DB1 data product (Snowflake, dbt) — portfolio, plan-versus-actual and data quality metrics as the common basis for all AI analyses.
• Guardrails & evaluation: Evaluation and approval processes for LLM responses relating to management-relevant statements — test sets, metrics and human review.
• Prototyping & validation: Iterative validation of agent responses with the business unit — test question catalogue, feedback loops and response quality for each release.
• Roadmap & development stages: Detailed stages from assistance → monitoring/alerting → partially autonomous management, including transition criteria and governance for each stage.
• Integration: Integration into the existing BI and data landscape — BI remains the System of Record, while the AI layer provides interactive drill-down paths as the System of Engagement.
• Enablement: Enablement of business users — prompting guides, training and an operating model for ongoing use.
• Management: Coordination of business units, Data Engineering, IT Security and Data Protection.
• Change Management: Communication and expectation management with business units and management throughout the development stages.

Results:

• Built on an existing up-to-date daily data product with several million contracts
• Established an LLM setup coordinated with Data Protection and IT Security in the EU region, including data separation and approvals
• Defined three development stages through to partially autonomous management
• Designed role-specific views for business units, management and C-level
• Developed the business case and management pitch for the development stages
• Established an iterative response-quality validation process with the business unit
• Designed the operating model for assistance operations and initiated validation

Stack: Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Foundry, Snowflake, dbt, React, TypeScript, Entra ID, RAG, Agentic AI, analysis agents, Human-in-the-Loop, Prompt Engineering, LLM Evaluation, LLMOps, GDPR / EU region, Azure DevOps, Python, SQL, Change Management

• Co-founded an AI venture focused on building production-grade LLM applications and agentic systems
• Designed and implemented multi-agent AI workflows for financial and trading applications
• Developed LLM-powered copilot architectures for portfolio analysis, trade management, and personalized user coaching
• Built on-device and edge-deployed inference applications, optimizing models for low latency, privacy, and resource-constrained environments
• Led system architecture decisions across model selection, orchestration, state management, and deployment

• Designing and implementing an interactive evaluation system for top executives to rate core competencies such as goal orientation, team culture, and strategic alignment.
• Integrating control mechanisms to enforce feedback limits and store evaluations in a central system to ensure data integrity.
• Optimizing data processing for personnel development by automating the merging of various information sources for form letters.
• Implementing technical data preparation and analysis for the annual compensation comparison in the financial sector.
• Developing automated processes for data preparation in Excel using Power Query, ensuring data integrity and anonymization according to data protection requirements.
• Automating personnel cost analysis by developing a solution to process data from the Paisy system into an SAP-compatible Excel file.
• Creating test cases, user documentation, and test plans for all developed systems.
• Technologies: Power Query, MS Office 2016 (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), Paisy, SAP, VBA.

• Designed and implemented an advanced, agentic RAG pipeline using LangChain and LangGraph for structured data extraction from PDFs, utilizing tools, state management, and OpenAI LLMs (GPT-4) to improve accuracy and handle complex document structures.
• Developed a Google AI agent for extraction of structured information from PDF documents and deployed the agent on Vertex AI.
• Architected data pipelines using Azure Data Factory and Databricks to ingest data from Azure Blob Storage, process it with PySpark, and load it into Azure SQL Database via Linked Services.
• Containerized AI agents and services using Docker for consistent local development and deployment.
• Utilized PySpark and Dask for database querying in coordination with Azure Blob Storage and Document Storage.
• Created a ReAct agent that extracts structured data from PDF documents using tools and integrating Azure Document Intelligence.
• Contributed to the CPO invoices validation check project using Databricks to find existing CDRs and calculate total valid costs.
• Developed a conversational AI agent (chatbot) with a FastAPI backend, integrating RAG for precise tariff extraction and deployed the service using Azure Container Apps.
• Tools used: Azure, Azure OpenAI, Azure Document Intelligence, Azure Blob Storage, Google ADK, Google Cloud, Vertex AI, Gemini, Databricks, LangChain, LlamaIndex Ollama, Docker, PySpark, Azure SQL, Azure Data Factory, Azure AI Agent, Microsoft SQL Server

• Lead high-performing teams to enhance enterprise system efficiencies, specializing in ERP and PIM systems within AWS, Azure, and proprietary datacenter infrastructures
• Ensure seamless alignment with stakeholder visions through strategic tech integration and dynamic leadership
• Build Generative AI solutions using platforms such as Azure/OpenAI, Google, Claude, and Ollama
• Develop intelligent system integrations and advanced data strategies leveraging AI and machine learning models
• Champion Agile methodologies (SCRUM) and mentor team in roles such as Team Lead, Scrum Master, and Product Owner
• Deliver robust, scalable solutions that power strategic business growth and operational excellence