PyCharm Expert in Munich

• Building, implementing and selling automated Data Science solutions such as Scorecard Factory and Forecast Factory
• Implementation of automated end-to-end cloud processes
• Development of LLM and NLP models
• Creation of interactive reports
• Support for national and international large corporations as well as medium-sized companies in implementing ML projects

Large Insurance Company – Consultant Wiesbaden: Consulting support for the introduction of an integrated planning and performance management framework (operational, financial, customer) to enhance customer-centric transparency, decision-making quality, and steering capabilities across all lines of business within an insurance organization:

• Analysis of existing processes, reports, KPIs, and KPI calculation methodologies
• Design and introduction of new, standardized customer KPIs (gross/net), as well as key steering metrics with consistent linkage across all lines of business
• Recalculation, validation, and plausibility checks of KPIs based on existing and newly integrated data sources
• Conceptual support for the development of an integrated reporting and performance management setup
• Execution of customer insights analyses to identify patterns and anomalies within customer data clusters

Large retail company – Consultant in Karlsruhe: Advisory services for the setup and step-by-step implementation of an internationally deployable RELEX solution in the supply chain management environment:

• Advising overall and sub-project management on methodology, project setup and steering (e.g. agile approach, Jira configuration, RELEX phases, Jira Structure PPM)
• Strategic-operational consulting for the introduction of RELEX including best practices
• Support in defining overarching goals and requirements (2-year target picture)
• Guidance in scoping a relevant supply chain network segment for the project
• Development of a roadmap for iterative, incremental RELEX setup and rollout
• Assessment of project dependencies (interfaces, configurations, etc.)
• Advice on prioritized implementation of business requirements and data interfaces
• Support in test planning (data validation, system testing, UAT)
• Consulting on internationalization, change management, training, and knowledge transfer
• Stakeholder advisory and alignment activities between the client, implementation partner, and RELEX

Insurance company – Management Consultant in Munich: Analysis, consulting and support for the optimization of a large-scale business and IT transformation. Focus on strategically important programs and modernization projects in the area of Managed Services Operations and processes:

• Review of project plans and deliverables; analysis of programs and projects (e.g. cloud approach, process standardization, system integration, roadmaps)
• Identification of technical, functional and personnel risks and challenges; development of content-related measures and alternative solutions
• Proposal of quality improvements for program and modernization efforts
• Sparring partner and professional, technical, structural and organizational consulting for project and program management

Large retail group – Management Consultant & Stream Lead in Cologne: Consulting, process, project and product management for the introduction and implementation of a large strategic program in the field of advanced analytics, assortment and space management:

• Setup, test and rollout of a new space planning, automation and optimization product based on the existing cluster-based merchandising approach
• Definition and setup of new processes and transformation and change management measures for the new store-specific merchandising approach
• Collaboration with Advanced Analytics and IT (internal and external) for software implementations, automations, extensions and interfaces
• MVP approach and piloting in phases with gradual rollout (pilot with 80 stores, region with 500 stores, national level with 4000 stores)

Large retail company – Agile Coach & Change Agent in Cologne: Agile coach, OKR master and facilitator for the introduction of the OKR approach in a large strategic digitization program for retail stores:

• Coaching of the core team with topic managers and team leads
• Introduction to the OKR topic and setup of the OKR cycle
• Establishment of the OKR approach in teams and on a cross-team level

Delivery and logistics company – Management Consultant in United Kingdom: Consulting and coaching in the restructuring of the Data Analytics department:

• Analysis of current challenges
• Definition of overarching goals
• Development of a proposal for a new team structure
• Identification of required competencies, skills and responsibilities
• Advisory and alignment on communication and change management strategy

• Designed and implemented a full machine learning pipeline for churn prediction using the Telco dataset.
• Applied preprocessing techniques including missing value handling, categorical encoding, feature scaling, and PCA.
• Built and compared over 15 models (logistic regression, random forest, XGBoost, etc.) and evaluated them using accuracy, precision, recall, F1 score, ROC AUC, and PR AUC.
• Tuned hyperparameters with GridSearchCV, achieving 80.6% accuracy with random forest and XGBoost.
• Created visual reports (bar plots, heatmaps, radar charts) to interpret model performance and churn drivers.
• Exported reusable pipelines and trained models with joblib for deployment.

• Executed standard/complex test cases using ECU-test and Python, improving test throughput by 30%.
• Performed validation and execution of ECU test cases on HiL benches for ADAS to ensure functional quality before release.
• Worked closely with customers to align test activities with project requirements and provide regular validation updates.
• Coordinated with subcontractors to track defects, ensure timely issue resolution, and maintain test quality.
• Ensured testbench stability and maintenance before executing test plans, identifying and resolving issues proactively.
• Developed Python-based automation scripts for reporting and workflow automation.
• Managed test issues and documentation via Jira in coordination with QA and development teams.
• Used CANPE for measuring signals of CAN, FlexRay, Ethernet, and IP using Vector CAN tools.

• Role: Software Engineer & Applied Mathematician (Mathematical optimization for scheduling; duration: 1 months; team setting: Team of 2, remote; technologies: JuMP, Julia, Pluto, Svelte, JavaScript, TypeScript, JetBrains Space, Terraform, Nomad)

• Role: Software & Cloud & Web Engineer (Building scalable data science compute cluster from scratch; duration: 11 months; team setting: Team of 1, on-site; technologies: Terraform, Kubernetes, k8s ingress, k8s services, k8s RBAC, k8s networking, k3s, etcd, S3, DNS, certificates, Julia, Pluto, JavaScript, Tailwind, Astro, npm, Parcel, Preact, MUI, JWT, AWS SQS, AWS RDS, Python, GitLab, GitHub)

• Role: AI & Web Engineer (Custom ChatGPT service; duration: 1 months; team setting: Team of 2, remote; technologies: Python, Poetry, LangChain, Tailwind, ChatGPT API, Flask, FastAPI)

• Role: Architect & Data Engineer (Central datalake setup and ingestion; duration: 9 months; team setting: Team of 5, remote; technologies: Infrastructure-as-code, AWS CDK, Python, Boto3, PySpark, AWS Glue, IAM, S3, ECS, Fargate, Lambda, Apache Hudi, DeltaLake, Databricks, GitHub, Jira, Miro)

• Role: Software Engineer (PoC Julia migration of scikit-decide; duration: 1 months; team setting: Team of 2, remote; technologies: Python, Julia, GitHub)

• Lead Architect to design and implement the data lake and ETL Pipeline using AWS Stack
• Performance Optimization of Data Ingestion of ETL Pipeline
• Development of Data Validation using Great Expectations
• Leading of the data migration for two sources exchanges
• Data Modeling in AWS Redshift

MLOps

• Model inference implementation by mlflow and AWS SageMaker
• Feature Engineering for the running ML Models ( Recommender Engineer, Clustering )
• Implementatino of Model Registry and artifactory using mlflow
• Historization an Profiling of the Input Data Using AWS Glue Crawler and AWS Data Catalog
• Feature importance using mlflow

Tech. Stack: Python 3, AWS Glue, AWS Step Fucntion, AWS Lambda, AWS EventBridge, AWS IAM Role, AWS SageMaker, AWS EC2, AWS Glue Crawler, AWS CloudWatch, MLFlow, ETL, Data lake, GitHub Action, Terraform, Jenkins, Ansible playbooks (Infrastructure as Code), CI/CD, GitLab, SQL, PySparkSCRUM, Agile, Jira, BigData, VSCode, DBeaver, MSSQL, MySQL, grafana, Docker, Linux, Bash, MapReduce, Data Modeling (ORM), Pandas, YAML, SQL-Alchemy

• Replacement of a Java application and the Oracle DB for loading the internal WerWasWo system using SSIS.
• Development of SSIS packages to load text files into the database (SQL Server)
• Development of a database project for deployment on various servers
• Creation of queries to monitor the loading runs
• Development of a PowerShell script to automate the deployment of the SSDT projects.
• Oracle, SQL Developer, Microsoft SQL Server 2022 on-premises, SQL Server Management Studio v21, Visual Studio 2022, SSIS, SSDT, PowerShell.

• Tested passenger car opening handle at system level integrating hardware, software and mechanics
• Built and provided complete test equipment for system testers using Arduino boards, Saleae Logic analyser, oscilloscope, multimeter, RLC meter, programmable power supplies and function generators
• Developed system testing concepts and constructed manual system test bench
• Supported system testers with hardware and software tools
• Products: BMW XNF, Rolls Royce, Audi eRing, JLR (Jaguar-Land-Rover)

• Building the company with a focus on connectivity for IIoT and Industry 4.0, iRPA/process automation, advanced robotics and smart systems, sensors and services
• Project management and software architecture for IoT gateway development (since 2020) with protocol translation, IT/OT convergence and GRC
• Developing RPA bots for automating and monitoring industrial processes with an agent-based AI approach (since 2020)
• Implementing unsupervised clustering and anomaly detection for time series data in big data streaming pipelines (since 2021)
• Introducing a Docker-based release train for OTA updates with DevSecOps and CI/CD (since 2018)

Business context:

• Release 1 – direct banking (consumer loans, vehicle financing)
• Integration with a newly developed VWFS customer frontend (checkout)
• Integration with the Check24 portal
• Release 2 – vehicle financing through VW Group dealers
• Integration with the existing dealer system for document submission
• Adaptation of the document processing workflow in the new core banking system
• Integration with the vehicle documents management system
• Integration with a dealer information system

Tasks and responsibilities

• Integration interface between the project developing the new core system and the systems being integrated
• Coordination of integration scenarios, interface content and their technical implementation
• Specification of business and technical requirements for the relevant interfaces
• Planning and tracking of implementation by service providers/development teams
• Management of testing activities, test execution and defect resolution tracking
• Status reporting to stakeholders and program management

Skills and technologies

• Project management, requirements analysis, test management, testing, reporting, stakeholder management
• VTXRM Accipiens, SmartFIX, Jira, Confluence, HP ALM
• APIs, REST, SOAP, OpenAPI, XML, JSON

• Project: Sensor fusion application for traffic participant detection
• Software frameworks: C++ (11,14), Python, Visual Studio, MTS, Qt, GitHub, Jenkins, JIRA, Confluence, Conan, CAN, RTOS, DOORS, CMake
• Refactored and adapted sensor fusion algorithms by processing sensor data (camera and radar) for ACC and EBA as per requirements
• Handled system test issue reports in JIRA
• Tuned Kalman filters and introduced new features to enhance tracking
• Adapted architecture, detailed design (UML) and simulation tool (Qt)
• Conducted unit testing, code reviews and static code analysis in compliance with MISRA standards
• Conducted regression testing to validate software, involved in software releases (CI/CD), KPI evaluation by testing NCAP scenarios
• Flashed ADAS software to target vehicles, used UDS protocol and OBD-II tools for diagnostics and verification

• Creation of test concepts
• Development of test processes
• Coordination of test case development: stress tests, functional tests, performance tests, high data rate tests, integration tests, etc.
• Hardware testing: FPGA, RF
• Test automation and regression testing
• Ensuring 24/7 operation of the test system
• Analysis & reporting
• Regular coordination of the test team, meetings with other stakeholders
• Communication and coordination with stakeholders and project managers