Docker Experts in Nuremberg

• Fine-tuned and evaluated alternative backbone architectures for the AFFGAN handwriting style encoder to better capture writer-specific features, benchmarking against the original baseline architecture and replacing the legacy VGG19 architecture with a custom Transformer-based encoder.
• Extended the system beyond word-level synthesis to line-level handwriting generation, integrating and adapting an existing line-generation architecture to support full-sentence output.
• Deployed the handwriting generation pipeline as a web application, enabling users to select a writing style, input custom text, and instantly generate a corresponding handwriting image.
• Integrated TrOCR into a teacher–student distillation framework to evaluate and improve readability of generated handwriting, improving OCR accuracy by 20% over the baseline.
• Boosted user-study pick-rates by 40%, demonstrating a significant leap in the perceptual quality and realism of the generated handwriting compared to the baseline model.

Tech: PyTorch, Python, GANs, CNN, ViT, TrOCR, Streamlit, CUDA.

• Pioneering work in personalized AI: developing a framework for “Interactive Content” (RAG) for novels, lectures, expert debriefing
• Successful launch of Einbug, the Pantopia chatbot, with media coverage (SZ interview)
• Creating compelling AI personalities: AI blog ([link] 100% personalized learning environments, Perry Rhodan, among others.

• Developed KPI dashboards using Power BI and DAX for 4+ business units, improving reporting transparency and strategic decision support.
• Migrated enterprise finance data views into dbt models, implementing modular SQL transformations, version-controlled data pipelines, and automated documentation to create a scalable analytics layer.
• Built dimensional data models in Snowflake for enterprise finance data, enabling scalable forecasting and supporting executive decision-making.
• Designed end-to-end ETL/ELT pipelines using Snowflake and SAP HANA, integrating data from 3+ enterprise systems.
• Automated monthly reporting workflows using SQL and Power BI, delivering strong business impact by reducing manual effort by 80%.
• Collaborated with finance stakeholders to translate business requirements into analytical data models, supporting strategic decision-making cycles.
• Delivered ad-hoc financial reports using Power BI, reducing turnaround time by 60%.
• Implemented data validation logic in SQL, resolving 95% of recurring data quality issues.

• Software development
• Technical design of software architecture and design (considering functional and non-functional requirements)
• Frontend and Backend
• Refactorings
• Code reviews
• Unit tests
• Automated integration tests
• E2E tests

Global Identity Services (GIS) is the identity provider for the Digital Services Platform (DSP). GIS is responsible for authenticating and authorizing end users and other DSP services by issuing security tokens. This includes:

• Identity management (e.g., user registration, password reset and change, user profiles)
• Management of roles and permissions
• Single Sign-On (SSO) across DSP services
• Management of OAuth resources and terms and conditions

• Delivered 40+ AI projects and 23 strategic consultations for international clients (US, Europe, Middle East), achieving a 98% job success rate and building long-term partnerships.
• Developed and deployed production-grade AI solutions in computer vision, NLP, deep learning, and generative AI (LLMs, RAG pipelines, Stable Diffusion, OCR, chatbots), enabling automation and improving client efficiency by up to 70%.
• Designed and fine-tuned large language models (LLMs), including prompt engineering and integration with enterprise knowledge bases, leading to smarter decision-making and reduced manual effort.
• Built real-time computer vision applications (detection, segmentation, OCR) and integrated them into business systems, significantly enhancing accuracy and scalability.
• Consulted startups and enterprises on AI strategy, architecture, and deployment (cloud & on-premise), accelerating product development and reducing time-to-market.
• Managed complete AI project lifecycles (requirements gathering, solution design, deployment, support) in agile, international, and cross-functional environments, ensuring high-quality delivery.

• Built a CRNN model with VGG16 and BiLSTM backbone for text-based CAPTCHA recognition
• Achieved 9.37% character error rate and 68.36% sequence accuracy on validation data
• Expanded data augmentation pipeline with distortions, noise injection, and clutter to improve robustness
• Conducted detailed error analysis on confusable characters (O, Q, D) and proposed error-specific augmentation
• Tech Stack: Python, TensorFlow/Keras, OpenCV, NumPy, Matplotlib

• Designed and implemented the complete data flow architecture for the Mercedes-AMG battery case production line, from raw material processing to end-customer traceability.

• Developed MQTT-based communication protocols for Siemens S7 PLC controllers to enable efficient real-time data exchange between machines and supervisory systems.

• Architected a local Ubuntu-based industrial server, integrating Node-RED for data collection, MySQL databases running in Docker containers, and automated data pipelines.

• Commissioned connectivity of 52 Siemens PLCs and 32 Yaskawa welding and handling robots.

• Designed and implemented HMI and visualization systems to support operator interaction and production monitoring.

• Designed a 2D digital twin of the production floor, visualizing real-time process data from 26 Siemens PLCs and 18 Yaskawa welding robots via Stromquelle interfaces.

• Implemented data collection and camera-based measurement systems for welding quality control and automated defect visualization.

• Designed and optimized MySQL database structures, including stored procedures for data processing and performance analytics.

• Tribe Home, Product Area 4 - Customer in Life, Squad Cybertron.
• Analysis, design, development, and testing of new requirements for Optimmo, construction financing software.
• Analysis, design, development, and testing of the JEE application MWS kredit-baufi.
• Analysis, design, development, and testing of the Wicket Optimmo application.
• Analysis, design, development, and testing of kredit-baufi batch programs.
• Migration of kredit-baufi batches to RHEL9.
• CiL SCS Consumer Pacts with Finagle.
• CiL ScS Touch Point Architecture Integration.
• Team size: 10.
• Tools / Frameworks: OpenJDK Java 17, Kotlin 1.6.0, Azure, Jenkins, Stash, JEE, Gitlab, JIRA, Confluence, git, Spring 6.0, Sping Cloud, Spring Data, Hibernate, JPA, JMS, Kafka, Oracle, PL/SQL, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), Maven, REST, JBoss, Intellij IDEA, Wicket 9 and 10, Istio.

• Integrated complex AI-based energy system models into the frontend framework, enabling the visualization of insights for 6+ key clients and maximizing energy utilization.
• Maximized energy efficiency and utilization by architecting the seamless data flow between AI models and the user interface for rapid, actionable reporting.

• Built a custom AI chatbot for an e-commerce client using GPT-4 and LangChain with RAG, reducing customer support ticket volume by 45% and improving response accuracy to 92%.
• Designed and deployed an intelligent document processing system using LlamaIndex, Pinecone, and FastAPI for a FinTech startup, enabling semantic search across 100K+ financial documents.
• Developed multi-agent AI workflows using CrewAI and LangGraph for a marketing agency, automating lead research, content generation, and outreach — saving 20+ hours/week of manual work.
• Created AI-powered automation pipelines using n8n, Make, and Zapier integrated with CRMs (GoHighLevel, HubSpot), reducing manual data entry by 80% for a real estate firm.
• Delivered prompt engineering and LLM fine-tuning consulting for multiple clients, optimizing AI model outputs for customer support, content creation, and data extraction use cases.
• Built production-ready REST APIs with Python and FastAPI to serve AI models on AWS and GCP, handling 10K+ daily requests with 99.9% uptime.

• Technology update
• Microsoft Azure certification

• Development of a new innovative payment product for the European market with the aim of establishing an alternative to the existing global players.
• Set-up and scaling of the software development processes and teams.
• Architect and implementation of the business processes in an event sourcing microservice architecture.
• Implementation on a prototype in the context of the Digital Euro.
• Technologies: Ktor (Kotlin), AWS Managed Kubernetes with Fargate, MongoDB, React, ElasticSearch, KoTest, Gradle, Agile Development, Pair Programming, GitHub Actions, Gradle, SonarQube

Industrial Communication | Proof of Concept: Controller-to-Controller Communication with OPC UA FX

Proof of Concept for OPC UA FX-based controller-to-controller communication between virtual programmable logic controllers (vPLC) on an industrial edge platform. A virtual test environment was set up on Debian Linux in two phases (including VMs and vPLCs), shared-memory communication (real-time information bus) was activated, and the RIB solution was integrated into a customized product firmware (including shared memory and PROFINET support) and deployed in containerized environments (Docker). Additionally, a virtual Ethernet connection was developed to simulate the network topology. Finally, commissioning, functional tests, sample application creation, comprehensive documentation, and customer support were completed.

• Gathered tire images and their feature descriptions.
• Cleaned dataset of image metadata using pandas.
• Stored image feature embeddings in Chroma vector db.
• Used image augmentations to increase dataset size.
• Used sklearn to create shuffled datasets and imbalanced-learn to balance class sizes in dataset.
• Used PyTorch to train and test different neural networks.
• Validated model using custom accuracy metric based on similarity search in ChromaDB.
• Visualized accuracy predictions using matplotlib.
• Plugged trained model into DreamBooth to train stable diffusion model and generate new images of tires.
• Created custom Docker image in Amazon Elastic Container Registry for machine learning script.