PEFT Experts in Germany

Predapp is a Sovereign AI and Infrastructure company building AI systems that organisations can own, control, and deploy on their terms, with full data sovereignty. As CTO and investor since 2015, leading the development of the Sovereign AI Platform alongside an advisory practice spanning AI strategy for enterprises, fractional CTO engagements, and technical due diligence for VCs, PE, and family offices.

• Architected the Sovereign AI Platform from zero owning technical vision, infrastructure design, and engineering roadmap; currently deployed at a European hospital, an automotive client in Germany, and two US startups, with active commercial discussions with two leading European hosting providers
• Dubai Health Authority (DHA / Nabidh): Designed and trained AI symptom checker and triage system for national 'Doctor for Every Citizen' initiative under HH Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum
• Emirates Airlines: Designed and deployed AI agent for ground personnel accelerating training, improving issue handling, and reducing cost of liquid workforce
• Developed explainable AI triage system piloted at University Hospital Heidelberg and Famagusta Hospital (Cyprus); reduced patient wait times by up to 15% (validation ongoing)
• Built production scheduling engine for US industrial AI startup: RL + Monte Carlo tree search, reducing planning from hours to seconds
• Designed and led the development of semantic search engines using RAG + Knowledge Graphs; developed Agentic Text-to-SQL solution for citizen data scientists
• AI strategy advisory and readiness assessments for enterprise clients, including architecture reviews, maturity assessments, and AI roadmap development

• 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.

• Architected and deployed a production-scale GraphRAG system using Neo4j, embeddings, and multi-hop reasoning over 120M+ nodes, improving answer precision by 32%, reducing hallucinations by 41%, and lowering retrieval latency by 38%.
• Designed and implemented an enterprise agent ecosystem using Model Context Protocol (MCP), exposing internal APIs, databases, and services as secure callable tools for autonomous workflows and system integration.
• Designed and deployed a production LLM-based email routing agent using Microsoft Graph API, MCP, and Azure OpenAI, achieving 96% routing accuracy, reducing manual triage workload by 65%, and decreasing response times from 18 hours to under 4 hours.
• Implemented autonomous agent self-correction pipelines using iterative feedback loops (Ralph Wiggum), enabling reliable error detection, automated remediation, and production-safe execution.
• Developed a multimodal semantic search platform using multimodal LLMs and vector embeddings, enabling semantic discovery across 250k+ image and video assets and improving search recall by 48%.

• Clarification of project goals, scope, and functional target vision for building the AI-based knowledge base.
• Deriving the initial architecture and implementation strategy for the Zasterbot chatbot, including defining the MVP and expansion phases.
• Developing a functional target vision for building a structured knowledge base and integrating a future chatbot.
• Deriving and prioritizing use cases for information retrieval and provision by the chatbot.
• Modeling data structures and flows for effectively organizing the knowledge base on the Base44 platform.
• Designing and implementing data models for storing and linking relevant information.
• Developing processes for extracting, analyzing, and preparing raw data for the knowledge base.
• Ensuring data consistency and quality as the foundation for the future chatbot.
• Planning the integration of large language models (LLMs) and retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) for precise and context-aware responses.
• Implementing features for analyzing and visualizing data from the knowledge base.
• Using the Base44 platform with JSON-schema-based entities and a flexible permission model.
• Implementing Deno functions for backend logic, event processing, and external API integration.
• Integrating OpenAI services for initial data analysis.

• Lead a cross-functional squad of backend, frontend, and ML/data engineers, balancing hands-on contribution (architecture, coding, reviews) with team leadership (mentoring, backlog prioritization, roadmap alignment).
• Designed and delivered ML-powered search and discovery features, including Learning-to-Rank (LTR), query expansion, and vector search, improving result relevance and user engagement.
• Implemented personalization and recommendation pipelines, using behavioral data and segmentation to increase customer retention and lifetime value.
• Established data-driven practices, building A/B testing and experimentation workflows (Odyn, MLflow) to measure feature impact on CTR, NDCG, and conversion.
• Owned the squad’s architecture and delivery roadmap, modernizing services with cloud-native microservices and event-driven systems (AWS, Pulumi, Terraform) to improve scalability and reliability.
• Improved reliability and operational excellence, introducing observability (Prometheus, Grafana, NewRelic), incident management, and postmortems that reduced downtime for customer-facing services.
• Mentored and supported engineers, fostering technical growth, collaboration, and a customer-first mindset through regular feedback, coaching, and code reviews.
• Worked closely with product managers, researchers, and business stakeholders to translate customer insights into technical solutions that improved discovery, engagement, and retention.
• Explored Generative AI/LLM use cases (GPT-4, LangChain, RAG), prototyping intelligent assistants and personalized discovery workflows that increased user satisfaction.
• Delivered tangible results: boosted engagement through personalization, contributed to revenue uplift, and reduced incidents by embedding resilience and observability.

• Research and develop models for chatbots, NLP and LLMs (e.g. Llama, Qwen, OpenAI)
• Enhance chatbots with RAG, in-context learning
• Supervised fine-tuning (PEFT, LoRA), Huggingface or Unsloth
• Advanced training methods: Test-time training, (transductive) active learning, reinforcement learning
• High-throughput serving with vLLM
• Apply embedding models (e.g. SentenceTransformers), similarity/vector search or vector DB or ranking (e.g. LlamaIndex, Faiss, LangChain)
• Generate and filter synthetic data, clustering
• Detect hallucinations
• Evaluate chatbot models (Rouge, BLEU, F1-Score, Recall, Precision)
• Visualization of experiments (matplotlib)

• Spearheading multidisciplinary engineering teams in the development of next-generation medical devices
• Orchestrating research initiatives and technology roadmaps to deliver innovative medical solutions
• Overseeing R&D budget and managing project portfolios from concept through to commercialisation
• Establishing strategic collaborations with clinical partners for technology validation

• Evaluated 45+ AI use cases and developed a prioritization framework for Siemens’ internal AI roadmap.
• Tested internal tools like DRIM, SiemensGPT, Microsoft Copilot; presented evaluation outcomes to stakeholders.
• Identified performance gaps and improved tool adoption by 65%.
• Supported AI knowledge-sharing initiatives, led tool onboarding sessions, and improved team AI literacy.
• Collaborated with engineering, procurement, and digital teams on tool feedback and strategy alignment.

• Focused on exploring the intersection of Music and AI.

• Head of technical overall integration NSC (National Secure Cloud project with about 60 employees).

• Technical integration of all subprojects into one product, definition of interfaces, basic components of a cloud including hardware, technical architecture of the IABG base.

• Development of a Cloud Management Platform (CMP) that can create a private/mixed cloud of any complexity based on a textual description with one click or interactively.

• CMP also includes the complete hardware management cycle.

• As a foundation, it uses Kubernetes, OpenStack, and Hadoop.

• The management layer includes Harbor, Gitea, Longhorn, Keycloak, Rancher and Jenkins, which are automatically configured.

• The private cloud can run any customer workloads, including a full Hadoop stack with HDFS, Spark, MapReduce, Mesos, HBase and around 20 other ML/DL technologies.

• Hadoop worker clusters can also be automatically installed on bare metal or commodity hardware without Kubernetes.

• OpenStack with Nova, Neutron, Ironic, Swift, Cinder, Ceph.

• Development of a Java application Rudi: SOAP, REST, containers, database.

• Technologies: Kubernetes (K3s, RKE2, Minikube, Harbor, Gitea, Jenkins, Longhorn, Keycloak, Rancher), OpenStack (Nova, Neutron, Keystone, Swift, Ceph, Cinder, Sahara, Magnum, Kayobe, Kolla, Bigrost, Ironic), Hadoop (HDFS, Ambari, Solr, Livy, Ranger, YARN, Tez, HBase, Kafka, Hive, Zookeeper, MapReduce, Spark, Oozie, Flink), virtualization (Kubernetes (K3s), VMware, Oracle), scripting (Ansible, Puppet, Juju, Shell, Groovy, Gradle, Maven).