Physarum

August 2024 - PresentCurrent

Integreat

PhD Fellow

Oslo, NO

Fellowship at the Norwegian Center for Knowledge Driven Machine Learning (INTEGREAT) in Oslo. Researching latent spaces in large language models. Supervised by the leader of the Machine Learning Group in Tromso Benjamin Ricaud and the director of INTEGREAT Arnoldo Frigessi.

September 2023 - July 2024

Orderfox

Machine Learning Engineer

Zurich, CH

Improving and creating ML pipelines for image and text analysis to extract machining data from manufacturer websites. Orchestrating load-scaling ML microservices on AWS through Terraform. Developing multi-modal embedding for CNC machining technologies. Mentoring junior team members in ML projects. Implementing self-hosted and fine tuned multimodal LLMs for technology and material extraction analysis.

September 2023 - January 2024

CH Media

Freelance Consultant

Zurich, CH

Consulting on Big Data and infrastructure architecture in the cloud. Building ETL solutions on Meltano, AWS, and dbt from Salesforce and Google Ad Console using Terraform.

February 2023 - September 2023

CH Media

Data Engineer

Aarau, CH

Building a data warehouse on Snowflake for usage data of regional media portals. Architecture and implementation of data pipelines for behavioural data ingestion. Data modeling of Snowplow data with dbt and data observability. Designing serverless microservices for data ingestions and transformations on AWS. Design of real-time database and pipeline for article recommendations.

January 2022 - December 2022

smallpdf

Data Scientist

Zurich, CH

Data scientist for three product development pods: core experience, mobile experience, and distributed experience. Researching and implementing state-of-the-art transformers for document AI. Developing causal models to understand drivers of churn, LTV, and revenue. Deriving insights from big event-log data for product decisions, AB-tests, features, and metrics.

April 2020 - December 2021

Rothschild & Co

Quant

Zurich, CH

Quantitative investment management for discretionary multi asset portfolios in UHNWI mandates. Developing methods and models for custom portfolio management. Strategic and tactical asset allocation and hedging. Architecture of automated reporting, allocation, monitoring, and scoring frameworks. Management of discretionary portfolios.

August 2019 - March 2020

avax / Deep Impact

Machine Learning Research Scientist

Winterthur, CH

Worked on machine learning based biometric face recognition for various clients. Engaged in engineering the real-time inference pipeline and research on tracking and face index based re-identification. In this job I have acquired a Swiss security clearance (Art 11 PSPV) through an extended background check.

August 2017 - July 2018

plan.uni

Co-Founder

Vienna, AT

Non-profit progressive web app. Built a course scheduling app with a friend that was used by over 10k students and won multiple awards. Implemented a large-scale single-page application and native PWAs with a distributed crawling infrastructure.

June 2016 - November 2017

Raiffeisen Bank International

Risk Manager

Vienna, AT

Managed liquidity risk for 15 leasing network-banks. Automated reporting and data transformation. Conducted statistical modeling for liquidity accounts. Oversaw balance sheet and stress-model reporting and monitoring.

February 2016 - May 2016

KA Finanz AG

PM Student Support

Vienna, AT

Portfolio Management. Conducted quantitative fundamental analysis and research on fixed-income assets. Modeled portfolio positions using VBA and Excel.

December 2014 - October 2015

PwC Austria

Junior Consultant Tax Technology

Vienna, AT

Managed a BigData platform project for tax determination. Analyzed ERP data from SAP. Developed tools for automating tax compliance and reporting.

March 2014 - October 2014

Raiffeisen Bank International

Student Support

Vienna, AT

Freelancer in the Liquidity Risk Management team. Analyzed and monitored group liquidity. Modeled and monitored stress scenarios. Implemented Basel 3 provisions. Conducted regulatory reporting to ECB and national bank.