Profile

Freelance machine learning engineer experienced in natural language processing, computer vision, data science, and software engineering. My past research focused on improving annotation efficiency and quality, enabling quicker and more cost-effective data collection for new and exciting applications. I also enjoy bringing ML and LLM research into production.

TOOLS

• Docker 
• Pytorch
• transformers 
• sklearn 
• pandas 
• LightGBM 
• FastAPI
• AWS 
• CloudFormation 
• React 
• Spring 
• Jenkins 
• Linux 
• Puppet 
• SQL 
• k8s
• Ansible 
• Terraform

INTERNSHIPS

05/2022 - 09/2022

Place of Work: Heidelberg, Germany

Role: Research Intern

Customer: Apple 

Tasks:

• In this internship, I was tasked to come up with and implement methods to improve annotation efficiency and quality. 
• Among other things, I evaluated annotation error detection for OCR data annotation tasks and investigated sample size computation and reduction for quality estimation through manual inspection for desired statistical guarantees.

Skills:

Python, Pytorch, Statistics, OpenCV, OCR, Data Annotation, Data Quality Management

INTERNSHIPS DURING DUAL STUDY PROGRAMME

05/2014 - 09/2014

Place of Work: Frankfurt, Germany

Customer: IBM Global Business Services 

Tasks:

M2M-Communication on a SIP

• This is the internship I did during which I wrote my Bachelor thesis. Goal was to develop a prototype home automation/IoT platform which uses an already existing telecommunications infrastructure.

Skills:

AngularJS, Arduino, C, C++, HTML, CSS, Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Python, SIP, WebSocket

11/2013 - 02/2014

Boeblingen, Germany

IBM Research & Development 

Tasks:

Integration of monitoring data into IBM DASH

• As a proof of concept, I migrated a legacy monitoring application into a modern IBM web dashboard product. 
• The fleshed out version by my tutor is now used to monitor IBM mainframes.

Skills:

IBM DASH, IBM Tivoli Monitoring, RHEL, Java

05/2013 - 08/2013

Place of Work: Dalian, China

Customer: IBM Global Business Services 

Tasks:

Support in IBM Watson appliance

• Improved the response quality of the Watson Sales Assistant by mining internal and external data sources.

Skills:

Java, MyBatis, MySQL, Hadoop, Spring

11/2012 - 02/2013

Place of Work: Boeblingen, Germany

Customer: IBM Research & Development 

Tasks:

Evaluating IBM GPFS in Hadoop

• I evaluated how replacing HDFS in Hadoop with IBM GPFS performs and whether it is more fault tolerant.

Skills:

Bash, GPFS, Hadoop, Java, Python, RHEL

07/2012 - 08/2012

Place of Work: Baden-Baden, Germany

Customer: IBM Global Business Services 

Tasks:

JEE-Consulting/Development as part of IT modernization

• For a customer in the tourism industry, I wrote part of a web interface for buying contingents of flights and hotel rooms from other tour operators .

Skills:

HTML, CSS, Java, JEE, JSF, MySQL, PrimeFaces

02/2012 - 04/2012

Mainz, Germany

IBM Global Technology Services 

Tasks:

Multi-Vendor-Storage Support Tool Development

• A fellow student and I developed a web application that generically analyzes and visualizes log files for many of the storage systems IBM offers support for.

Skills:

HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP Debian

Work Experience

08/2016 - 09/2017

Place of Work: Frankfurt, Germany

Role: Student Software Developer Online Payment System

Customer: Senacor 

Tasks:

• Worked on a new online payment system backed by the largest banks in Germany.

Skills:

Java, Spring, Android, Scrum, Event Sourcing, CQRS, Microservices

07/2015 - 03/2016

Place of Work: Darmstadt, Germany

Role: Student Software development Robotics

Customer: RMR, TU Darmstadt 

Tasks:

• Developed a ROS package for a stereo camera mounted on Robotinos as well as a marker-based localization system leveraging four ceiling cameras.

Skills:

Python, C++, OpenCV, ROS, Matlab, Aruco

10/2014 - 07/2016

Place of Work: Frankfurt, Germany

Role: Student Software developer IoT

Customer: IBM NGNCC via KONTIP 

Tasks:

• Built a scalable IoT-Middleware to connect sensors and actuators of any manufacturer. 
• Starting point was the platform developed during my B.Sc. thesis.

Skills:

C++, Java, Arduino, Python, SIP, Linux, PostgreSQL, LoRa