PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

03/2023 - today:

Role: Freelance Engineer

Customer: Self-employed, Karlsruhe

Tasks:

FutureProofHomes Inc., Orlando Florida

• Hardware architecture and development for a private, local voice assistant system
• Tech: Kicad, Yocto, 3D Printing

Schneider Geo GmbH, Garmisch-Partenkirchen

• ChatGPT based microservice for information extraction from unstructured data
• Tech: Python, ChatGPT, Langchain

ConBotics GmbH, Berlin

• Circuit board development for robotics platform in construction automation
• Design of electrical plan using qElectroTech
• Tech: KiCad, EPlan

Camelstack GmbH, Karlsruhe

• Development of an OCR system to extract text from images and scanned documents
• Prototyping of a scalable automation system
• Tech: Python, Tesseract OCR, ESP32, C++

Innovation Concepts, Karlsruhe

• Developing and consulting on AI tooling solutions
• Research, testing, and development of applications for analog computers
• Consulting to support technical sales efforts, software and hardware development
• Tech: LLMs, Stable Diffusion, Altium Designer, ESP32, Fusion360

09/2022 - 02/2023:

Role: Embedded Linux Engineer

Customer: Incari GmbH, Berlin (remote) 

Tasks:

• Cross-compilation of Linux libraries to ARM64
• Creating unit tests and benchmarks with the Catch2 framework
• Setting up an embedded Linux project with Yocto for graphics-accelerated applications on ARM64
• Tech: C/C++, Catch2, Yocto

06/2021 - 02/2022:

Role: Software Developer

Customer: flexlog GmbH, Karlsruhe, robodev GmbH, Karlsruhe

Tasks:

• Hardware integration testing with GitLab CI/CD and Python
• Compenent development for modular robotics system
• Tech: C/C++, RTOS NuttX, Python

04/2016 - 04/2021:

Role: Electrical Engineer

Customer: markju GmbH, Karlsruhe

Tasks:

• Technical management of electronics development
• Support of a product from prototype to small series production
• Cost and resource optimization of an FPGA-based laser control system
• Development of an FPGA-based laser control system
• Design of an algorithm for microvectorization of cubic Bezier curves
• Management and trainng of a new employees
• Electronic/mechanical design and testing of laser marking systems
• Tech: Altera FPGAs, VHDL, TCL, Embedded Linux, KiCad