GitLab Experts in Essen

• Training AI models, evaluating images and text UI/UX, turning the provided data into insights through OpenAI Feather as part of the machine learning workflow

Technologies: OpenAI Feather

Tools: Fabric, AWS, dbt, Power BI, SQL, DWH, R, Python

• Supported customers in implementing an architecture design for extracting and preparing data
• Planned the design and implementation of the BI and DWH platform
• Ensured the scalability and performance of the data platform

• Delivered MVP-focused full-stack architecture for a health-sector client: Vite/React frontend, backend services on Google Cloud Run, and Supabase for database plus IAM/authentication.
• Supported product requirements engineering and prioritized cost-aware workload placement, implementing browser-side/edge computation where feasible before moving logic to backend services.

• Title: Enhancing Syntactic Awareness in Transformer Language Models for Hindi Dependency Parsing
• Investigated syntactic knowledge captured by transformer language models (RoBERTa, XLM-RoBERTa) for Hindi dependency parsing, a morphologically rich and low-resource language.
• Developed structure-aware model variants (Struct_Roberta_hi, Struct_XLMR) by integrating a CNN-based parser network between transformer layers, inspired by the StructFormer architecture.
• Conducted extensive error analysis including label-wise, distance-based, direction-based, sentence length-based, and LVC/Non-LVC evaluations.
• Evaluated models on downstream NLP tasks (NER, POS tagging) using the IndicXTREME benchmark.

• Technical lead for CI/CD modernization in the "Group Archive 4.0" system
• Architecture and steering responsibility according to the statement of work
• Setting up modern build and deployment processes
• CI/CD coaching and enablement of the internal development team
• Integration of modern DevOps, security, and compliance standards
• Ensuring technical governance, including collaboration with internal audit and BaFin
• Independently executing the modernization measures
• Supporting the team in adopting new technologies and methods

• Frontend development
• Spring Boot
• Swagger
• Git
• GitLab
• SonarQube
• Docker
• Maven
• Java
• Angular

• Led the subproject for implementing Vulnerability Response as part of DORA
• Documented the current processes in compliance, risk & security
• Created the functional design for introducing application, infrastructure, and cloud vulnerabilities
• Agile management of the integration service provider, the technical department, and the company's cross-functional teams
• Integrated the V scanners Tenable, Qualys and Defender, as well as NVD and CISA/KEV
• Integrated GitLab Ultimate for importing and processing SBOMs
• Developed automation rules to match scan results with CIs in the CMDB, assign vulnerabilities and remediation tasks, handle approvals (false positives, exceptions) and closures
• Calculated multiple risk scores and priorities
• Defined dashboards and reports (Workspaces, Performance Analytics)
• Aligned the new processes, especially to improve the CMDB data quality (according to CSDM)

• Design and implementation of a system for controlling the complete process of installing, removing, and replacing electricity meters by external service providers for an energy supplier

• Automated retrieval of orders and available devices through defined interfaces (e.g. from SAP)

• Orchestration of the process steps (assignment of meters, processing of meter data, transfer of updated information back to the source system) through a Spring-Boot backend

• Provision of a React-based web client for operational tracking and control of orders, e.g. to continue failed process steps or resend notifications

• Support in restructuring and designing the group's internal Android apps
• Defining essential modules and implementing accessible components
• Establishing agile approaches at an international level
• Technologies & Methods: Kotlin, Android, JUnit 5, Koin, Azure DevOps, Android Studio, Git, Jetpack Compose, Coil, Flow API, Ktor, Coroutines, TypeScript, Node.js

• Architecting and developing SaaS platform for graphical definition and execution of pandas data processing pipelines
• Developed POlyglott, an open-source Python CLI tool for translation workflow management featuring PO file parsing, quality linting with glossary enforcement, and DeepL API integration for machine translation
• Developed web application for material compliance management (EU REACH) using Django and modern web technologies
• Built automated infrastructure platform using Proxmox, Terraform, and Ansible — VM provisioning, configuration management, internal DNS, and fleet-wide security hardening across multiple subnets

• Strategic transition into AI Engineering through intensive mentoring and project execution.

• Developed MASX AI, an agentic AI platform integrating LangGraph, AutoGen, and RAG for geopolitical forecasting and real-time ETL.

• Designed and delivered functional AI prototypes for prospective clients showcasing applied expertise in multi-agent systems, real-time data pipelines, and LLM integrations.

• Re-architected a web application that had grown over years, modularizing tightly coupled components

• Reduced response times from several seconds to <50 ms

• Removed performance bottlenecks

• Simplified architecture so internal teams can implement features on their own again