Professional Experience

Integreat - Oslo

August 2024 - Present

PhD Fellow

Fellowship 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.

Orderfox - Zurich

September 2023 - July 2024

Machine Learning Engineer

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.

CH Media - Zurich

September 2023 - January 2024

Freelance Consultant

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.

CH Media - Aarau

February 2023 - September 2023

Data Engineer

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.

smallpdf - Zurich

January 2022 - December 2022

Data Scientist

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.

Rothschild & Co - Zurich

April 2020 - December 2021

Quant

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.

avax / Deep Impact - Winterthur

August 2019 - March 2020

Machine Learning Research Scientist

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.

plan.uni - Vienna

August 2017 - July 2018

Co-Founder

Non-profit progressive web app. Built a with a friend for course scheduling 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.

Raiffeisen Bank International - Vienna

June 2016 - November 2017

Risk Manager

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.

KA Finanz AG - Vienna

February 2016 - May 2016

PM Student Support

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

PwC Austria - Vienna

December 2014 - October 2015

Junior Consultant Tax Technology

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

Raiffeisen Bank International - Vienna

March 2014 - October 2014

Student Support

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.