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• Senior Software Engineer, Universum AG

  Oct, 2018 - Present

  Led full-stack development and AI integration for a range of mission-critical projects, aligning deep technical implementation with strategic business goals. Spearheaded initiatives in automation, NLP, and secure systems design—contributing to product innovation, user engagement, and operational efficiency across the organization.

  • Designed and implemented an AI-powered tool integrating chatbot capabilities with automated email responses, leveraging the company's knowledge base and ChatGPT (Docker, Python, FastAPI, OpenAI, Redis, JavaScript, Vue.js, GitLab CI).

  • Engineered APIs for Belenios secure cryptographic online voting system integration, supporting 60,000 users and processing 600 votes per 30 seconds (Python, FastAPI).

  • Built and maintained a scalable content pool aggregating news and events data for seamless mobile app integration (Python, Elasticsearch).

  • Developed a custom Drupal module with AI-driven, NLP-enhanced search functionality (PHP, Python, Watson, spaCy, Elasticsearch).

  • Optimized team Git workflows and CI/CD pipelines, significantly reducing deployment time and boosting collaboration efficiency (Git, GitLab, Make, Ansible).

  • Organized and hosted local Drupal Meetups, driving community engagement and knowledge sharing.

• Software Engineer, Retresco GmbH

  Dec, 2011 - Jul, 20186 years 7 months

  Owned core architecture and development of real-time, high-performance systems in a fast-paced consulting and product delivery environment. Delivered robust microservices and data pipelines that enabled personalization, automation, and scalable deployment—earning top feedback in performance review.

  • Developed a real-time stream processing pipeline and personalization algorithm for adaptive content delivery (Python, Flask, Kafka, Elasticsearch).

  • Provided technical consultancy to enterprise clients, guiding architecture decisions and best practices across projects.

  • Led refactoring of legacy monoliths into containerized microservices, introducing CI/CD automation and scalable infrastructure.

  • Designed and implemented a web-based GUI for a Translation Management System with seamless frontend-backend integration (AngularJS, Tornado, Elasticsearch).

  • Developed a relation extraction system for short message analysis, enabling efficient insights from unstructured text data.

• Student Researcher, DFKI GmbH

  May, 2009 - Apr, 20111 year 11 months

  As a Student Researcher at DFKI GmbH in Berlin (2009–2011), contributed to the development of a multilingual mobile dialogue assistant. Designed a classification algorithm to detect question–answer pairs and improved dialogue structures for a diploma thesis project. Positive feedback in performance review.

  • Developed multilingual mobile dialogue assistant (PHP, Objective‑C).

  • Designed classification algorithm for question‑answer pair detection.

  • Enhanced user interaction and dialogue structures for diploma thesis project.

• Student Researcher, Universität Potsdam

  Mar, 2006 - Feb, 20092 years 11 months

  • Converted Word documents to XML for eXist‑db (Python, Tomcat).

  • Developed data retrieval interface for project website (Python).

  • Built CMS for personal staff websites (Python).

• Media Educator, Pfefferwerk gGmbH

  Sep, 2003 - Jul, 20051 year 10 months

  • Conducted lectures on computer interaction for children.

  • Delivered training in Photoshop and digital drawing for trainees.

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