TensorFlow Experts in Germany

• Team leadership: Prioritization and coordination of four cross-functional teams.
• Platform strategy: Development and implementation of strategies to optimize existing IT platforms.
• Stakeholder management: Active management of expectations and communication with internal and external stakeholders.
• Program and innovation management: Prioritization and coordination of cross-department projects as well as innovation initiatives.
• Product Owner consulting: Advising Product Owners with a focus on product development and continuous product improvement.
• Organizational development: Improving communication and decision-making structures across all organizational levels.
• Change management: Implementing best-practice change management methods to ensure continuous optimization and innovation.
• Quality assurance: Ensuring high quality standards in processes, services, and deliverables.

• Deployment and scaling of existing ML initiatives, including demand and cash flow forecasts.
• Building robust monitoring with mlflow for data stability, model performance, and drift detection, as well as implementing additional ML use cases.
• Further development of an Agentic AI chatbot for transparent and easy-to-understand model explanations.

Scope: Embedded as FP&A Data & AI Architect within the Finance function of a major European refrigeration manufacturer, leading the transformation of manual, fragmented financial reporting into an automated, governance-driven intelligence platform. Driving the shift from Excel-based controlling to structured data architecture, Power BI analytics, and AI-assisted financial operations.

Financial Data Integrity & ERP Governance

• Initiated and led GL vs. subledger reconciliation investigations, identifying and resolving structural mismatches between General Ledger and subledger data that had gone undetected prior to engagement
• Conducted asset analysis to identify items missing from General Ledger postings, surfacing gaps in fixed asset tracking and period-end completeness
• Validated SAP reports, establishing baseline data quality standards for Finance team consumption
• Established systematic SAP data validation framework ensuring ongoing integrity between ERP postings and downstream reporting outputs

Finance Reporting Transformation

• Designed and implemented a structured Transformation Project approach for converting manual Finance reports into fully automated processes
• Created and owns the Data Reporting Audit Log; a centralized tracking system capturing report owners, stakeholders, data sources, manual effort estimates, and automation opportunity scores across the Finance function
• Mapped the full reporting landscape identifying quick-win automation targets and strategic Power BI migration candidates
• Actively reducing manual Excel and PowerPoint dependency across FP&A workflows; replacing point-in-time snapshots with live, governed data models

Power BI & Analytics Enablement

• Introduced and presented Power BI as the strategic reporting platform to Finance leadership, building internal buy-in for the BI transformation roadmap
• Designed initial Power BI architecture aligned with SAP, Salesforce and Oracle data structures and FP&A reporting requirements
• Established report ownership, governance documentation, and data lineage standards enabling sustainable self-service analytics across the Finance team

Transformation Infrastructure & Collaboration

• Configured and deployed Jira as the transformation project management hub, establishing structured sprint workflows, backlog management, and progress visibility for Finance IT initiatives
• Proposed and initiated a dedicated FP&A Communication & Transformation Hub, a structured cross-functional forum aligning Finance, IT, and business stakeholders around the reporting transformation roadmap
• Positioned the Finance function as an active driver of data governance and digital transformation within the broader organization

Outcomes

• GL/subledger reconciliation gaps identified and investigation framework established within first two weeks of engagement
• Data Reporting Audit Log deployed; first structured inventory of Finance reporting landscape in company history
• Power BI transformation roadmap presented and approved by Finance leadership
• Jira-based project governance live; Finance transformation now tracked with full sprint visibility

Technologies: SAP FI/CO · Power BI · DAX · SQL · Excel (advanced) · Power Query (M) · Power Automate · VBA · Jira · Microsoft 365 · SharePoint · Salesforce (Sales Data) · Oracle HCM · Python

maturing their API Practices on both, a Business and Technology level. My role encompasses strategy, architecture, developer advocacy as well as hands on software engineering, enabling both technical teams and business leadership to adopt and act on API- centric principles effectively. Coincidentally, we also establish GitOps, DX and Platform Best practices with this project.

Highlights:

• Aligning executives with the initiative by clarifying strategy, replacing misconceptions and myths with facts, clarifying the value of existing assets and enabling informed decision-making
• Formulating a way forward for API Lifecycle Management at OTTO
• Driving platform progress and fostering developer engagement by hands-on engineering work towards strategic goals

API Lifecycle Management, Team Topologies, Organizational Evolution, Regulatory, Platform Advocate, Developer Platform, Communities of Practice, Terraform, Kotlin, Kafka, Kong, WSO2, Apigee, Gravitee, Backstage, AsyncAPI, OpenAPI, API Design, AWS, react, nodejs, typescript, redocly, reactive programming, CDC, golang, gingonic, GitOps, DX (developer experience), stakeholder management, roadmaps, workshops, discovery.

• 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

• TrendReel, production LLM agent and RAG system (Python, LangChain, OpenAI, Groq/Llama 3, Claude, FastAPI, Kubernetes, PostgreSQL).
• Designed and built a production multi-step LLM agent system: a script generation agent with a per-platform psychology database, 7 viral narrative frameworks, and structured quality scoring, switching between Claude and Groq backends in real time based on output metrics.
• Implemented multi-provider LLM routing (Claude primary, Groq/Llama 3 fallback) with priority-chain failover and quality-based provider switching, achieving 95% inference cost reduction while holding measurable quality thresholds.
• Built an advanced RAG-style retrieval pipeline with per-platform knowledge bases, semantic content matching, and structured output evaluation across 7 decision frameworks, directly analogous to multi-tenant context-based reasoning for enterprise document workflows.
• BrainyAI, adaptive AI learning platform (Python, LangChain, Groq Llama 3.3-70B, OpenAI, Next.js, Supabase, Redis).
• Integrated Groq Llama 3.3-70B with education-level-aware prompting, dynamically adjusting vocabulary depth, citation complexity, and reasoning style across four student proficiency tiers.
• Nexus Prime, multi-tenant SaaS platform for marketing and growth automation (25 modules, 99 backend routers, 153 frontend files).
• Built a 25-module, 99-router multi-tenant SaaS platform covering ad remix, affiliates, WhatsApp inbox, email, and cart recovery, serving four subscription tiers from $199 to $1,999 per month with integrated Stripe, Paystack, and Flutterwave billing.
• AI Video Surveillance Platform, multi-tenant edge and cloud computer vision system currently in active client pitch.
• Designed a multi-tenant AI video surveillance platform combining edge YOLO26 inference on NVIDIA Jetson Orin NX boxes with a central GKE cloud layer (Postgres, Pub/Sub, ClickHouse, R2, Keycloak) for event storage, dashboards, alerting, and multi-tenancy.

Independent, part-time open-source engineering focused on build-time tooling for Next.js, React, MDX, and JavaScript/TypeScript compiler pipelines.

• Built next-slug-splitter to optimize content-driven Next.js applications. It analyzes MDX content at build time, resolves component usage, and generates route-specific handlers so pages avoid sharing the full catch-all component bundle.

• Created supporting plugins and utilities for scoped MDX transformations, nested component dependency resolution, compile-time refinement, safe ESTree evaluation, and object-graph diffing.

• Own architecture, API design, implementation, automated testing, npm publishing, documentation, demos, and performance benchmarking.

Building blocks:

• remark-scoped-mdx: Context-aware AST transformations with nested scope isolation, typed component registries, and prop inference.

• recma-component-resolver: Dependency-graph analysis and selective component forwarding across nested MDX includes.

• recma-static-refiner: Build-time prop extraction, schema validation, derivation, and pruning.

• estree-util-to-static-value and object-graph-delta: Safe static evaluation and deterministic, cycle-safe structural diffing.

Tech Stack:

• Frameworks: TypeScript · Next.js · React · MDX

• Compiler tooling: Unified · Remark · Recma · MDAST · ESTree · ts-morph · esbuild

• Competencies: Static analysis · AST traversal and transformation · dependency graphs · code generation · schema validation · route and bundle splitting

• Tooling: Vitest · tsup · npm · performance benchmarking

Manufacturing intelligence platform with enterprise workflows, RAG, real-time AI assistant features, and multi-repository backend architecture.

• Built and extended production AI/backend services with Django, DRF, FastAPI, GraphQL, Celery, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, and WebSockets across a modular multi-repository platform.
• Contributed to ARIS V2, a real-time manufacturing AI assistant using LangChain, LangGraph, MCP tool orchestration, planning/execution flows, OpenAI, AWS Bedrock, Qdrant, and Elasticsearch/OpenSearch-backed retrieval.
• Supported rollout expansion from ARIS V1 in 4 of 17 client production plants to ARIS V2 currently active in 13 of 17 plants, increasing real-world deployment coverage to more than 50% of the client footprint.
• Worked on document-grounded RAG functionality including ingestion, OCR, chunking, embeddings, indexing, retrieval, reranking, and grounded answer generation for industrial workflows.

Stack: Python, Django, DRF, FastAPI, LangChain, LangGraph, GraphQL, Celery, WebSockets, OpenAI, AWS Bedrock, Qdrant, Elasticsearch/OpenSearch, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Redis, Docker.

• Engineered and validated a full-vehicle thermal management system in MiL simulation, achieving 95% correlation accuracy against real-world vehicle measurements, directly supporting virtual calibration and reducing dependency on physical test benches.
• Led end-to-end Model-in-the-Loop (MiL) simulation development using AVL CruiseM and MATLAB/Simulink, covering system architecture, parameterization, and validation.
• Acquired and analyzed vehicle sensor measurements (temperature, volumetric flow rate) using dSpace MicroAutoBox (HiL) and IPEmotion, translating raw data into actionable calibration insights.
• Calibrated and optimized critical actuators and thermal components - pumps, valves, electric heaters, heat exchangers, and refrigerant circuits and identified/integrated previously missing physical behaviors to close the gap between simulated and real vehicle performance.
• Designed and tuned an integrated actuator controller with precisely calibrated parameters, producing a high-accuracy virtual model adopted for downstream development use.

• 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.

• Built and fine-tuned CNN and RNN architectures using transfer learning for real-world classification tasks — core deep learning skills applicable to BMW's multimodal LLM and GenAI vehicle function development.
• Implemented Dropout, Batch Normalisation, and Early Stopping across deep learning experiments; evaluated rigorously using precision, recall, F1-score, and confusion matrices for production-grade reliability.
• Developed an AI-powered attendance management system using LBPH facial recognition, deployed via Flask web interface with real-time SMS notifications — demonstrating end-to-end AI product delivery for real users.
• Collaborated across cross-functional teams to deliver scalable, documented ML pipelines designed for reproducibility — matching BMW's interdisciplinary team and research environment.
• Integrated AI tooling directly into the development workflow from design through to testing, maintaining high velocity without compromising correctness.

• Developed a real-time video analytics proof-of-concept for deployment on NVIDIA Jetson edge devices.
• Implemented DeepStream pipelines including object detection, tracking, human pose estimation, face anonymization, and zone intrusion detection.
• Built a Qt/Python demonstration UI interfacing with the AI pipeline via REST APIs.

• Mentor team of 6 ML platform engineers through weekly 1:1s, technical design reviews, and best practices, improving team velocity by 35% through structured sprint planning and skill development programs
• Define 2025–2026 ML platform roadmap in collaboration with Data Science, Cloud Engineering, and Product teams, prioritizing automated model governance, cost attribution systems, and multi-environment deployment strategies
• Partner with Data Science, SRE, and Product stakeholders to align ML platform capabilities with business objectives, reducing data scientist deployment friction by 60% through self-service platforms
• Architect and deliver production-grade MLOps platform supporting 50+ models in production with automated promotion pipelines, versioning, and rollback capabilities, achieving 99.5% platform uptime SLA
• Design distributed ML pipeline architecture using Metaflow and Argo Workflows (Vertex Pipelines-compatible), reducing model training time by 30% and deployment cycles from 2 weeks to 3 days through full CI/CD automation
• Build containerized ML services on Kubernetes with auto-scaling policies, resource quotas, and multi-tenancy isolation, optimizing infrastructure costs by $180K annually (25% reduction)
• Implement monitoring, alerting, and performance tracking using Prometheus, Grafana, and custom instrumentation, reducing model debugging time by 50% and establishing model performance SLOs
• Lead development of RAG-based document intelligence platform using LangChain, LangGraph, and vector databases, implementing agentic AI workflows for automated financial document processing
• Implement Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform for reproducible environment provisioning and GitOps workflows, reducing infrastructure drift incidents by 80%
• Design role-based access control for ML platform, implement model lineage tracking, and establish audit trails for regulatory compliance aligned with enterprise IAM best practices

• Automatic detection of content on various documents
• Recommendation Engine
• Dynamic Pricing