Semantic Search Experts in Berlin

• Own full-stack development of an AI-native enterprise platform built on TypeScript, React, Vite, tRPC, Hono, and PostgreSQL, delivering AI-powered consulting workflows to B2B clients.
• Designed and shipped a multi-agent AI system using ReAct framework and Claude skills-style workflow patterns, including an intelligent PM assistant with rich system prompts, slash commands, tool integrations, and streaming chat UI.
• Architected an LLM evaluation framework: rubric-based LLM-as-judge, golden datasets, regression testing, and automated quality gating — ensuring consistent AI output quality at scale.
• Integrated LangFuse for end-to-end LLM tracing, conversation replays, and evaluation pipelines, enabling data-driven prompt optimisation that reduced token costs and response variance.
• Built with Drizzle ORM, pgvector, and knowledge graphs for structured data access, semantic search, and relationship-aware AI reasoning across the platform.
• Led TanStack React Query migration across the application — replacing manual state management with centralised caching and automatic refetching, reducing data-fetching boilerplate significantly.
• Practiced AI-native development throughout: Claude Code, Codex, Perplexity SDK, and LLM-assisted testing across the full development lifecycle. Deployed on Vercel + Azure ACA with Biome for linting/formatting.

• Led the end-to-end delivery of enterprise full-stack web applications by driving requirement analysis, solution design, frontend and backend development, database design, API integration, code reviews, team coordination, Agile execution, CI/CD deployments, production support, performance optimization, security implementation, and stakeholder collaboration to deliver scalable, high-quality software solutions.

• Concept and implementation of data-heavy platforms for enterprise customers
• Design of complex AI-based interactions (chatbots, voice control, semantic search)
• Stakeholder management with more than 10 participants in cross-functional teams
• User research: interviews, usability tests, value validation
• Definition of quality metrics and execution of value analyses

Tools & methods: Figma, Adobe XD, Miro, Chat GPT, Claude | Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, Lean UX

Selected clients: VW Group, Volkswagen, BMW, Cariad, ABUS, Gieseke & Devrient, Hamburg Senate Chancellery, German Red Cross, Deutsche Bahn, Immoscout24, Relynk

• Designed and deployed enterprise Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) applications using LangChain, LangGraph, vector databases, embeddings, and open-source LLMs served through vLLM on GCP GPU infrastructure.
• Built agentic AI workflows using LangGraph with planning, reasoning, tool execution, persistent memory, session management, and Human-in-the-Loop approval mechanisms.
• Developed LLM-powered automation systems integrating BigQuery, SQL pipelines, and external advertising APIs including Meta, TikTok, Amazon, Snapchat, Google, and Pinterest, reducing manual operational workflows.
• Architected multi-agent AI systems for enterprise analytics and decision-support workflows, enabling autonomous task execution and intelligent data interactions.
• Implemented retrieval optimization strategies including multi-retriever architectures, semantic search, context optimization, and query improvement techniques, improving response relevance by approximately 40%.
• Engineered structured prompting strategies, function-calling schemas, and validation workflows to improve reliability of multi-step LLM applications.
• Designed scalable AI services using Python, FastAPI, Cloud Run, Pub/Sub, BigQuery, Docker, and cloud-native deployment architectures.

AI Platform Backend – Senior Developer

Brought in to design and build a backend for an AI platform from scratch, including multi-provider LLM orchestration and real-time infrastructure for AI influencer personas at scale.

Tasks and responsibilities

• Architected and implemented a multi-LLM orchestration layer with Semantic Kernel to integrate GPT-4 and other providers for core platform logic and AI influencer personas, reducing model-switching overhead by abstracting provider APIs behind a single interface.
• Designed and developed a backend from scratch in C# / .NET 10, including domain modeling with DDD, a versioned RESTful API layer, and cloud infrastructure setup on Azure.
• Built a real-time chat infrastructure with Server-Sent Events (SSE), message persistence, and delivery guarantees for live operation of AI influencer personas at scale.
• Developed a media management service with integration of cloud object storage for upload and retrieval of influencer-generated content.
• Created an integration and unit test suite with data seeding for reliable regression testing across all core platform flows, significantly reducing the production error rate.

Tools and technologies: C#, .NET, ASP.NET Core, Python, TypeScript, MySQL, Semantic Kernel, EF Core, Minimal APIs, LLM Orchestration, Prompt Engineering, Agentic AI, Generative AI, AI-Assisted Engineering, Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, Google Gemini, OpenAI API, Ollama, Redis, Azure, Azure Container Apps, Azure Database for MySQL, Docker, GitHub Actions, Clean Architecture, Vertical Slice Architecture, CQRS, Domain-Driven Design, REST API, xUnit, Integration Testing, Unit Testing, Jira, Confluence, Scrum

• Designed and implemented a hybrid recommendation system (content-based + collaborative filtering)
• Built end-to-end ML pipelines including data processing, feature engineering, model training, and evaluation
• Developed RAG-based LLM systems using LangChain and vector databases for semantic search and knowledge retrieval
• Established MLOps workflows with MLflow for experiment tracking, versioning, and deployment readiness
• Implemented deep learning models (computer vision & classification) using PyTorch and TensorFlow

• Delivered AI and data science solutions, including LLM-based chatbots and data pipelines, improving operational efficiency.
• Collaborated on product features, achieving measurable impact and maintaining strong client relationships.

• 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.

• Lecturer for the GenAI Track at the Master School Institute of Technology
• Development of a full-stack AI application (React + Python/FastAPI) for automated supplier product import with intelligent column and category classification (4-layer hierarchical) including human-in-the-loop validation

• Developed YourBestChance.io, an AI-powered career resilience platform that leverages advanced machine learning to provide personalized guidance and resources for users.
• Architected and implemented a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) system supporting three languages, utilizing GPT-based large language models (including OpenAI and Grok variants) integrated with specialized vector databases for efficient semantic search and similarity matching.
• Built an interactive AI chatbot powered by generative AI and RAG pipelines to deliver real-time, context-aware responses and enhance user engagement.
• Optimized data pipelines and AI infrastructure for scalability, ensuring robust performance under increasing loads and reducing latency by 50%.
• Developed comprehensive AI strategies using ML and Gen AI to create customized growth plans; analyzed company data to identify strengths, weaknesses, risks, and opportunities for AI integration.
• Defined ethical frameworks for AI deployment, assessed workforce and leadership upskilling needs, and built phased action plans (short-, mid-, and long-term) with targeted AI integration recommendations.

Geeks Ltd is a UK-based technology company; WordUp is its AI-driven language-learning product focused on personalized vocabulary learning and intelligent educational experiences.

• Coordinate AI product delivery across Product, Engineering, Data, Operations, and leadership, translating user needs into scoped initiatives, sequencing work, surfacing blockers, facilitating hand-offs, and communicating progress.
• Own search, recommendation, retrieval, and content-enrichment features end to end, from requirements and architecture through Python/FastAPI implementation, testing, deployment, monitoring, and rapid iteration.
• Developed low-latency retrieval, ranking, and personalization services using AWS, OpenSearch, DynamoDB, embeddings, and reusable APIs, achieving <1s latency, 22% higher engagement, and 12% higher premium conversion.
• Use AI coding assistants for codebase analysis, scaffolding, refactoring, tests, debugging, and documentation while reviewing every output for correctness, architectural fit, security, maintainability, and user value.
• Represent technical work in planning and stakeholder discussions, gather requirements first-hand, challenge priorities constructively, explain delivery trade-offs, and help teammates make outcome-focused decisions.

• Guided systematic data collection and pre-processing for the machine learning algorithms
• Defined the labeling process and implemented an interface to annotate the datasets
• Programmed a visual deep learning algorithm to detect machine pollution in live production
• Implemented data augmentation techniques to deal with machine heterogeneity
• Supplied a containerized model with API endpoints for deployment to the production machines
• Coordinated and represented a five-person project team, prepared presentations and reports