CatBoost Experts in Germany

Statistical Forecasting Algorithm

• Improvement of an statistical probabilistic forecasting algorithm for sales + evaluation
• Migration from R/On-premise to Python/Snowflake
• Productionalization on Snowflake in cooperation with data engineers & DevOps

Monitoring Dashboard

• Data engineering for preparation & provisioning of necessary data/resources on Snowflake
• Development & deployment of a Streamlit dashboard in Snowflake

ML-based Probabilistic Forecasting on Vertex AI

• Development of a ML-based probabilistic forecasting algorithm from scratch
• Implementation of MLOps pipeline in Kubeflow on Google Cloud Vertex AI

Tech Stack: Python, Snowflake/Snowpark, R, Streamlit, Gitlab/Gitlab CICD, Terraform, Google Cloud, Vertex AI (aiplatform SDK, gcloud CLI, feature store, model registry, etc), kubeflow

• It is like a startup within REWE, where we have to build a new forecasting system on Google Cloud Platform from the scratch. Although, officially my role is called MLOps, my actual tasks also include development of data processing pipelines (data engineering) and data scientists tasks such as feature engineering and model trainings.
• GCP: Terraform (tofu), Vertex AI (Kubeflow), Cloud Run, IAM, Google Cloud Storage, BigQuery, Artifact Registry
• Data engineering: Snowflake as the main data warehouse, Terraform, DBT for data model implementations
• CI/CD: GitLab. We have built a CI/CD pipeline that automates deployments of new releases up to production environment
• Development of feature store and data synchronization between environments
• Data science: evaluation of different forecasting models, including CatBoost, Contextual Gamma and Random Forest; implementation of training pipelines using Kubeflow on Vertex AI; scaling and development of an event-driven interface using Kafka as a forecasting service; evaluation of MLFlow for model tracking and model registry
• Implementation of REST API using KeyCloak OAuth2 and OpenID (JWT)
• Monitoring: implementation of dashboards with Grafana, Prometheus, Mimir, Streamlit and Loki to monitor prediction metrics, GCP and Snowflake costs for pipelines, and system metrics
• Development of Copilot Agent Skills

• Developed a multi-agent system connecting LangChain ZeroShotAgent with custom tools for live APIs and task automation.
• Built a FastAPI backend for Jira ticket creation, triage, and assignment, with automatic severity classification, deduplication, SLA setup, on-call rotation, and two-way syncing of status and comments.
• Added Slack alerts and RAG knowledge lookup with FAISS or pgvector to suggest fixes, with optional PagerDuty escalation for policy breaches.
• Orchestrated agents with a router and a Celery plus Redis queue, including retries with backoff, rate limits, idempotency keys, and human-in-the-loop approvals.
• Implemented guardrails and observability, prompt versioning, token and cost budgets, PII redaction, tool-use allowlists, timeouts, OpenTelemetry tracing, accuracy and latency dashboards, and deployment on Kubernetes with feature flags and canary rollouts.

• Architected and deployed LLM based AI agents, RAG pipelines, and vector search solutions for decision support across retail banking department.
• Developed and shipped robust AI pipelines with guardrails, error handling, monitoring, and fallback logic ensuring high reliability outcomes and compliance with data privacy.
• Developed and deployed ML models to identify transactional anomalies, improving fraud detection and risk assessment in high-volume datasets for credit risk modelling.
• Built, evaluated and fine-tuned ML models to generate propensity scores for customers used to drive personalized targeting campaigns for credit cards and personal finance/loan products.
• Developed an NLP pipeline using BERT embeddings and spaCy NER for SMS/email analysis and customer query logs.
• Trained machine learning models using Isolation Forest to classify user behaviour and detect anomalies.
• Extracted, cleaned, enriched and feature engineered datasets from different sources to build feature stores that powered ML model training.
• Led development of dashboards using Power BI, Grafana, and Prometheus to monitor model performances, KPI trends, and marketing metrics.
• Built multi-touch attribution models using logistic regression and time-decay weights to evaluate lead quality.
• Developed scalable ETL pipelines from CRM, T24, SAP, and ERP, supporting millions of monthly transactions.
• Integrated testing and CI/CD workflows for robust data pipeline deployment.

• Architected an agentic, real-time offer orchestration engine where specialized agents (retrieval, pricing/optimization, and policy/guardrails) coordinate to personalise promotions across customer touchpoints using RAG with FAISS over Delta Lake and low-latency Databricks Model Serving. Collaborated with product managers and commercial stakeholders to shape the roadmap and evaluate emerging agent patterns for production.

• Designed an agent-based data quality service that orchestrates schema detection, entity normalization, and validator/exception-handling agents to clean multi-retailer SKU feeds at scale. Wrapped model calls in PySpark UDFs for distributed inference, automated via Databricks Workflows and CI/CD.

• Developed a multimodal, agentic extraction pipeline where vision, parsing, and compliance agents collaborate to derive brand, packaging, and volume from scanned images using Claude 3 Sonnet with Swin Transformer encoders. Orchestrated via Azure Event Hub with outputs persisted to Delta Lake.

• Implemented a GS1 taxonomy classification service built around cooperating agents for inference, drift monitoring, and auto-retraining governance using Falcon 180B (LoRA-tuned) with a batch pipeline on Databricks.

• Created a hybrid agent workflow where a retrieval agent surfaces candidate matches via embeddings and a reasoning/verification agent (Mixtral 8x7B) adjudicates receipt-to-SKU alignment, integrated into a streaming Databricks pipeline.

• Built a multimodal attribute inference pipeline structured as cooperating vision-language, rules/consistency, and compliance agents to fill NutriScore, nutrition fields, and packaging types from names and images using LLaMA 3-8B with CLIP embeddings.

• Developed a GenAI-powered orchestration system that ingests recipes from multiple websites, parses ingredients through structured extraction agents, and dynamically links them to real-time retailer offers via tagging, semantic reasoning, and business-rule agents.

• Built a new BI team, Snowflake data warehouse and BI infrastructure from scratch
• Lead the BI team to drive data-driven decision-making across cargo handling operations.
• Design and maintain enterprise data solutions for performance tracking, forecasting, and operational efficiency.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to align BI strategy with business objectives in a high-throughput logistics environment.