spaCy Experts in Germany

• Task Engineering: Evaluating Coding Agents.
• Asset Creation: Building realistic task environments using datasets and files in German. Crucially, these assets must remain in the target language to genuinely measure multilingual handling.
• Prompting & Translation: finding failure points where AI does not work, in German.
• Implementation & Verification: Supporting the development of robust solutions (reference implementations) and write highly reliable, deterministic verifier scripts (using rubric-based judging only when strictly necessary).
• Calibration & Execution: Analyze execution logs and calibrate task difficulty (Easy to Very Hard) using standard Terminal-Bench run configurations against various model tiers (Haiku, Opus).
• Quality Assurance: Participation in a rigorous, 4-layer human quality control process (creation, human review, calibration review, and audit) alongside automated LLM-based checks to ensure fairness, grammatical accuracy, and benchmark integrity.
• Linguistic Review: Reviewing AI benchmark tasks across Hindi, Arabic, Japanese, Chinese, Czech and Turkish.

• Led strategic software development of fusion algorithms for precise object tracking, trajectory prediction, and environment modeling based on multimodal sensor data (e.g., camera, LiDAR, radar, GNSS, IMU)
• Developed and implemented navigation algorithms for autonomous vehicles, including path planning, obstacle avoidance, and sensor fusion of visual, inertial, and distance-based sensor sources
• Automated extraction and training processes with CI/CD
• Developed and optimized data pipelines and processes in Microsoft Azure using Apache Spark, Databricks, and PySpark
• Developed and optimized embedded software for automotive control units
• Designed latency-critical software for real-time control in robotic systems with RTOS (freeRTOS, SAFERTOS)
• Used the Vector toolchain (CANdela, DaVinci, CANoe) for configuration and diagnostics
• Optimized existing data pipelines and processes (ETL, data warehouse, SQL)
• Developed and trained machine learning models using PyTorch
• Created deep-learning-based object detection and visual SLAM algorithms, trained on combined data from camera, LiDAR, and IMU sensors
• Implemented computer vision algorithms for object detection and classification in robotic systems using OpenCV and YOLO, utilizing synchronized image and depth data
• Implemented behavior-based control systems for autonomous robots using ROS2 Behavior Trees
• Performed testing, release, and integration of sensor fusion algorithms into automotive production programs
• Ensured adherence to proper software development processes and safety standards to guarantee high data quality (MISRA, ISO 26262, ASPICE)

• Created a multi-agentic system supported by a knowledge graph to automate drafting of research papers
• Used multiple experts (OpenAI models) collaborating during document drafting
• Extracted useful information from the knowledge graph
• Technologies: LangChain, LangGraph, Smolagents, LlamaIndex, dspy
• Infrastructure: Terraform and GitHub Actions (CI/CD) on AWS
• Deployed initial application as a Streamlit app

• Building an AI & Data Consultancy Practice with the goal of helping European companies adopt Artificial Intelligence and modern data platforms
• End-to-end further development of a production system using modified coding agents (OpenCode). Tech stack: Kubernetes, Argo, Keycloak, Typescript, Grafana, GitOps, DevOps, Playwright
• Internal research project on the use of coding agents in the field of mathematical logic for creating formal models. Use of Cursor IDE and Codex, Codex CLI. Architecture design, quality control and refactoring, as well as writing code and tests. Repository (open source) available pre-launch
• Research on the role of mathematical logic as a formal language that connects IT and AI with business processes
• Project lead for collecting and deploying parking recommendations for rail vehicles with significant savings potential based on real-time data in a mobility and transport company
• Project lead for collecting and distributing process measurement points for real-time control in a mobility and transport company
• Deputy application owner for an app used for communication in the dispatching and provision of rail vehicles

• 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.

• Teaching German literature and linguistics

• Enhanced the AI model monitoring solution to allow comparative analysis of model versions and full tracking of input variables with relative drift metrics for complete monitoring.
• Developed a custom LLM solution to automate the certificate of incoming goods of supply and support downstream analysis.
• Enhanced Digital Twin AI models to support model validation.

Skills: Python, Statistical Computation, Large Language Models (LLM), Machine Learning Engineering, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Data Wrangling, Data Visualization, Statistical Evaluation.

Tools: Python programming, Snowflake, Databricks, Microsoft Powerapps, Powerautomate, PowerBI, Scipy, Seaborn, Scikit-Learn.

• Insurance service provider*

Challenge: Business-critical documents were processed through external OCR providers, with ongoing costs, dependency, and data privacy risks for sensitive insurance data.

Implementation:

• Architecture and production implementation of an on-premise OCR solution with full data ownership
• Methods for recognizing document structures as the basis for automated further processing
• ML-, NLP-, and LLM/VLM-based information extraction, especially from invoices and quotations

Success: Replaced external providers: full data ownership, GDPR-compliant processing, and 75% lower recurring OCR costs per year

Used technologies: Python, Docker, Microservices, FastAPI, PyTorch, Torchvision, MongoDB, MySQL

• Develop and demonstrate solutions using GenAI software like langchain, vercel ai sdk, copilotkit
• Work with customers to understand their challenges and provide the best solutions based on open-source data products
• Build RAG and GraphRAG solutions using Neo4j, lancedb, and Postgres
• Deploy a LLMOps platform using kubernetes, terraform, helmfile, Arize phoenix, mlflow
• Architect and build data pipelines using dbt, Trino, Spark, Iceberg, Airflow, ArgoCD, terraform, kubernetes
• Delivered user-centred technical strategy for Agriculture 4.0 and precision livestock farming, helping my client secure funding from Bpifrance
• Delivered a prospecting tool for a leading French solar carport installer, using geospatial computing (GIS), speeding up the sales process
• Built digital twin architecture for solar carports and EV chargers, making real-time monitoring and smart charging possible

• Design, preparation and delivery of a webinar on 'RAG in Practice: How publishers create real value with AI'
• Preparing technical and strategic content on Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) for a mixed audience from the publishing industry
• Presenting specific use cases, technical backgrounds, common challenges and solution approaches when using RAG
• Providing practical insights into data preparation, model selection and output optimization in the context of digital publishing portals
• Conceptual and technical preparation of the webinar
• Selecting and presenting practical use cases from the publishing environment
• Developing technical backgrounds for implementing RAG systems
• Presenting and explaining typical challenges and solution strategies
• Large Language Models (LLMs)
• Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG)

• Developed a Generative AI-based image recommendation engine for an AI video production system
• Implemented automatic image analysis with GPT-4o
• Built semantic vector search using OpenAI embeddings, MongoDB, and OpenSearch
• Tagged and indexed 4 million customer assets
• Redeveloped recommendation engine with a hybrid, balanced keyword and vector search plus filters

• Optimizing the online shop search function based on Magento and OpenSearch
• Advising on eliminating search pain points (composite search, case-insensitive search)
• Data modeling of products (parent) and items (child)
• Workshops to convey domain-specific search understanding

• Applied advanced machine learning techniques by developing a multi-strategy prompting framework (zero-shot, few-shot, CoT, instruction tuning) to extract structured data from complex financial and medical datasets, significantly enhancing model reliability and achieving an 18% improvement in F1-score through rigorous evaluation using advanced metrics (ROUGE-L, METEOR, Cosine Similarity).
• Designed scalable structured-output workflows and built automated monitoring pipelines (spaCy, ClearML) for continuous performance tracking, simulating real-world MLOps principles.
• Refined prompt strategies iteratively based on meticulous error analysis to ensure robust, production-ready performance.

• Performed qualitative and quantitative analysis of extracted findings, categorizing themes, evaluating methodologies, and assessing study quality and reliability.
• Produced research reports and evidence summaries communicating key trends, gaps, and opportunities to academic advisors or cross-functional teams.
• Presented findings through well-structured visualizations, tables, and narrative summaries to support decision-making and guide future research directions.