AI Engineer | 5+ yrs ML/MLOps | 10+ yrs distributed systems | Builds AI solutions, agentic systems, MLOps platforms & scalable cloud architectures.
Aktualisiert am 27.05.2025
Profil
Freiberufler / Selbstständiger
Remote-Arbeit
Verfügbar ab: 30.06.2025
Verfügbar zu: 100%
davon vor Ort: 20%
AI Engineering
Machine Learning
MLOps
Large Language Models
Natural Language Processing (NLP)
Computer Vision
Distributed Systems
Python
PyTorch
TensorFlow
Scikit-learn
AWS
Google Cloud
Azure
Kubernetes
Kafka
Apache Spark
Nvidia Triton
Faiss
Milvus
Weaviate
FastAPI
Terraform
German
Muttersprache
English
Highly proficient

Einsatzorte

Einsatzorte

Vienna (+50km)
Deutschland, Schweiz, Österreich
möglich

Projekte

Projekte

5 months
2025-01 - now

Automating business processes with agentic AI

Co-Founder & AI Engineer
Co-Founder & AI Engineer

It is a consultancy specializing in intelligent automation, LLM-based agents and AI engineering services.

  • Developing LLM-based agents designed as virtual team members to automate complex business workflows.
  • Providing AI consulting services including AI application development, MLOps engineering and custom ML solutions.
Vienna
1 year 2 months
2023-08 - 2024-09

Enterprise-Scale Visual Search

Principal Machine Learning Engineer Python PyTorch Milvus ...
Principal Machine Learning Engineer

Canto is a leading Digital Asset Management provider with 3000+ customers, specializing in AI-powered content management.

  • Built an event-driven AI inference and search platform on Kubernetes for large-scale image and video processing.
  • Enabled real-time image and video search across millions of assets with Milvus.
  • Implemented a distributed asset processing pipeline using Apache Kafka and Nvidia Triton.
Python PyTorch Milvus Nvidia Trition Apache Kafka FastAPI Kubernetes AWS
Canto Inc.
Remote
1 year 10 months
2021-11 - 2023-08

AI-Powered Visual Intelligence Suite

Principal Machine Learning Engineer Python PyTorch Faiss ...
Principal Machine Learning Engineer

MerlinOne, now part of Canto, was one of the first Digital Asset Management providers to pioneer AI-based semantic search solutions, serving major media organizations like The Associated Press.

  • Played a key role in the development of the Merlin AI suite, a no-metadata, AI-based semantic search engine.
  • Implemented a high-performance, low-latency search system for millions of assets.
  • Developed a semantic video search solution allowing users to search for scenes by describing the visual content.
  • Built a face recognition system for video content.
  • Trained and fine-tuned large-scale models used for asset encoding.
  • Designed scalable ML inference pipelines on AWS for processing 100M+ assets.
Python PyTorch Faiss Flask MongoDB OpenCV ffmpeg AWS
MerlinOne Inc.
Remote
1 year 10 months
2020-02 - 2021-11

Enterprise MLOps Platform & Deep Learning Content Filter

Machine Learning Team Lead Python PyTorch TensorFlow ...
Machine Learning Team Lead

cyan Security Group provides cybersecurity services, specializing in threat intelligence and content filtering.

  • Led ML team's technical direction and strategic initiatives.
  • Implemented an end-to-end ML platform for data management, model training, model deployment and model monitoring.
  • Trained computer vision models for content classification, improving web filtering accuracy.
  • Built a machine learning model to detect patterns of interest in JavaScript source code.
Python PyTorch TensorFlow MLflow Apache Spark Delta Lake Databricks AWS Azure GCP
cyan Security Group
Vienna, Austria
4 years 9 months
2015-06 - 2020-02

Event-Driven Messaging for Media Services

Distributed Systems Engineer Scala Java Apache Kafka ...
Distributed Systems Engineer

As CEO of CodeTales GmbH, I worked on various projects for clients in the digital media industry.

  • Led the development of an reactive microservice framework serving as foundation for all client-facing services company-wide.
  • Built distributed messaging infrastructure for event-driven application communication of 10+ services.
  • Developed the content playout management system for a media platform serving millions of global users.

Scala Java Apache Kafka Vert.x
Vienna, Austria
4 years 1 month
2011-05 - 2015-05

Enterprise Banking API & Reporting Suite

Technical Lead
Technical Lead

s IT Solutions is the IT provider of Erste Group, responsible for development of banking software.

  • Technical lead for multiple projects, guiding the application development team.
  • Led development of RESTful web API for fund data management and an online banking reporting system.
s IT Solutions
Vienna, Austria
3 years 1 month
2008-06 - 2011-06

Software Engineering

Software Engineer
Software Engineer
rubicon IT / Erste Sparinvest KAG
Vienna, Austria

Aus- und Weiterbildung

Aus- und Weiterbildung

9 months
2019-06 - 2020-02

Sabbatical Machine Learning

Self-study
Self-study
  • Machine Learning Engineering Springboard Career Track
  • Machine Learning, Coursera, Stanford University
  • Deep Learning Specialization, Coursera, deeplearning.ai
2 years 1 month
2008-06 - 2010-06

Software Engineering

Master of Science / Graduation with Honors, University of Applied Sciences Hagenberg
Master of Science / Graduation with Honors
University of Applied Sciences Hagenberg
3 years 1 month
2005-06 - 2008-06

Software Engineering

Bachelor of Science / Graduation with Honors, University of Applied Sciences Hagenberg
Bachelor of Science / Graduation with Honors
University of Applied Sciences Hagenberg

Kompetenzen

Kompetenzen

Top-Skills

AI Engineering Machine Learning MLOps Large Language Models Natural Language Processing (NLP) Computer Vision Distributed Systems Python PyTorch TensorFlow Scikit-learn AWS Google Cloud Azure Kubernetes Kafka Apache Spark Nvidia Triton Faiss Milvus Weaviate FastAPI Terraform

Produkte / Standards / Erfahrungen / Methoden

Expertise

  • AI Engineering
  • Machine Learning
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Computer Vision
  • Data Engineering
  • MLOps & Platform Engineering
  • Distributed Systems & Architecture


AI & Machine Learning

  • PyTorch
  • Hugging Face (Transformers, Datasets, Accelerate, TGI)
  • Scikit-learn
  • LangChain
  • Haystack
  • Faiss
  • Nvidia Triton
  • llama.cpp
  • Model APIs: Anthropic, OpenAI, Gemini


Application Development & Data Engineering

  • FastAPI
  • Flask
  • Apache Kafka
  • Apache Spark
  • Delta Lake
  • Databricks


Infrastructure

  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • AWS
  • Azure
  • Google Cloud Platform
  • Terraform
  • GitHub Actions


Open Source Projects

Freeact: Autonomous Agents using Code Actions

Freeact is a library that enables AI agents to address complex, open-ended problems through executable code actions.

  • Integrated language models to serve as the backbone for agents.
  • Conducted comprehensive performance evaluations to ensure robustness of agents.
  • Developed real-world agent use cases demonstrating web search, data analysis and data processing.


FreeRAG: Lightweight Retrieval-Augmented Generation Framework

FreeRAG is a lightweight FastAPI and Haystack-based application providing efficient retrieval-augmented generation.

  • Developed a modular RAG system supporting multiple data sources including plain text, PDFs, and URLs.
  • Implemented hybrid search combining BM25 and dense retrieval for improved result quality.
  • Built advanced retrieval features including contextual embeddings, query expansion, and metadata filtering.
  • Implemented an adapter for Hugging Face Text Embedding Interface to integrate local embedding and reranking models.


Generative Internet Search with Local LLMs

A generative internet search using Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) to process natural language queries, search the internet, and generate contextually relevant responses using open-source LLMs.

  • Implemented RAG pipeline combining local metasearch engine and Llama3-8B model.
  • Designed relevance-based filtering and re-ranking system for search results optimization.
  • Built agentic RAG demonstration integrating the search tool into an agentic workflow.


Perceiver IO

A PyTorch library implementing the Perceiver architecture family with distributed training and inference capabilities.

  • Implemented optical flow estimation predicting the apparent motion of each pixel between two consecutive video frames.
  • Developed symbolic audio modeling using Perceiver AR, trained on GiantMIDI-Piano dataset for MIDI generation.

Programmiersprachen

Python
Scala
Java

Datenbanken

Milvus
Weaviate
Qdrant
PostgreSQL
MongoDB

Einsatzorte

Einsatzorte

Vienna (+50km)
Deutschland, Schweiz, Österreich
möglich

Projekte

Projekte

5 months
2025-01 - now

Automating business processes with agentic AI

Co-Founder & AI Engineer
Co-Founder & AI Engineer

It is a consultancy specializing in intelligent automation, LLM-based agents and AI engineering services.

  • Developing LLM-based agents designed as virtual team members to automate complex business workflows.
  • Providing AI consulting services including AI application development, MLOps engineering and custom ML solutions.
Vienna
1 year 2 months
2023-08 - 2024-09

Enterprise-Scale Visual Search

Principal Machine Learning Engineer Python PyTorch Milvus ...
Principal Machine Learning Engineer

Canto is a leading Digital Asset Management provider with 3000+ customers, specializing in AI-powered content management.

  • Built an event-driven AI inference and search platform on Kubernetes for large-scale image and video processing.
  • Enabled real-time image and video search across millions of assets with Milvus.
  • Implemented a distributed asset processing pipeline using Apache Kafka and Nvidia Triton.
Python PyTorch Milvus Nvidia Trition Apache Kafka FastAPI Kubernetes AWS
Canto Inc.
Remote
1 year 10 months
2021-11 - 2023-08

AI-Powered Visual Intelligence Suite

Principal Machine Learning Engineer Python PyTorch Faiss ...
Principal Machine Learning Engineer

MerlinOne, now part of Canto, was one of the first Digital Asset Management providers to pioneer AI-based semantic search solutions, serving major media organizations like The Associated Press.

  • Played a key role in the development of the Merlin AI suite, a no-metadata, AI-based semantic search engine.
  • Implemented a high-performance, low-latency search system for millions of assets.
  • Developed a semantic video search solution allowing users to search for scenes by describing the visual content.
  • Built a face recognition system for video content.
  • Trained and fine-tuned large-scale models used for asset encoding.
  • Designed scalable ML inference pipelines on AWS for processing 100M+ assets.
Python PyTorch Faiss Flask MongoDB OpenCV ffmpeg AWS
MerlinOne Inc.
Remote
1 year 10 months
2020-02 - 2021-11

Enterprise MLOps Platform & Deep Learning Content Filter

Machine Learning Team Lead Python PyTorch TensorFlow ...
Machine Learning Team Lead

cyan Security Group provides cybersecurity services, specializing in threat intelligence and content filtering.

  • Led ML team's technical direction and strategic initiatives.
  • Implemented an end-to-end ML platform for data management, model training, model deployment and model monitoring.
  • Trained computer vision models for content classification, improving web filtering accuracy.
  • Built a machine learning model to detect patterns of interest in JavaScript source code.
Python PyTorch TensorFlow MLflow Apache Spark Delta Lake Databricks AWS Azure GCP
cyan Security Group
Vienna, Austria
4 years 9 months
2015-06 - 2020-02

Event-Driven Messaging for Media Services

Distributed Systems Engineer Scala Java Apache Kafka ...
Distributed Systems Engineer

As CEO of CodeTales GmbH, I worked on various projects for clients in the digital media industry.

  • Led the development of an reactive microservice framework serving as foundation for all client-facing services company-wide.
  • Built distributed messaging infrastructure for event-driven application communication of 10+ services.
  • Developed the content playout management system for a media platform serving millions of global users.

Scala Java Apache Kafka Vert.x
Vienna, Austria
4 years 1 month
2011-05 - 2015-05

Enterprise Banking API & Reporting Suite

Technical Lead
Technical Lead

s IT Solutions is the IT provider of Erste Group, responsible for development of banking software.

  • Technical lead for multiple projects, guiding the application development team.
  • Led development of RESTful web API for fund data management and an online banking reporting system.
s IT Solutions
Vienna, Austria
3 years 1 month
2008-06 - 2011-06

Software Engineering

Software Engineer
Software Engineer
rubicon IT / Erste Sparinvest KAG
Vienna, Austria

Aus- und Weiterbildung

Aus- und Weiterbildung

9 months
2019-06 - 2020-02

Sabbatical Machine Learning

Self-study
Self-study
  • Machine Learning Engineering Springboard Career Track
  • Machine Learning, Coursera, Stanford University
  • Deep Learning Specialization, Coursera, deeplearning.ai
2 years 1 month
2008-06 - 2010-06

Software Engineering

Master of Science / Graduation with Honors, University of Applied Sciences Hagenberg
Master of Science / Graduation with Honors
University of Applied Sciences Hagenberg
3 years 1 month
2005-06 - 2008-06

Software Engineering

Bachelor of Science / Graduation with Honors, University of Applied Sciences Hagenberg
Bachelor of Science / Graduation with Honors
University of Applied Sciences Hagenberg

Kompetenzen

Kompetenzen

Top-Skills

AI Engineering Machine Learning MLOps Large Language Models Natural Language Processing (NLP) Computer Vision Distributed Systems Python PyTorch TensorFlow Scikit-learn AWS Google Cloud Azure Kubernetes Kafka Apache Spark Nvidia Triton Faiss Milvus Weaviate FastAPI Terraform

Produkte / Standards / Erfahrungen / Methoden

Expertise

  • AI Engineering
  • Machine Learning
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Computer Vision
  • Data Engineering
  • MLOps & Platform Engineering
  • Distributed Systems & Architecture


AI & Machine Learning

  • PyTorch
  • Hugging Face (Transformers, Datasets, Accelerate, TGI)
  • Scikit-learn
  • LangChain
  • Haystack
  • Faiss
  • Nvidia Triton
  • llama.cpp
  • Model APIs: Anthropic, OpenAI, Gemini


Application Development & Data Engineering

  • FastAPI
  • Flask
  • Apache Kafka
  • Apache Spark
  • Delta Lake
  • Databricks


Infrastructure

  • Docker
  • Kubernetes
  • AWS
  • Azure
  • Google Cloud Platform
  • Terraform
  • GitHub Actions


Open Source Projects

Freeact: Autonomous Agents using Code Actions

Freeact is a library that enables AI agents to address complex, open-ended problems through executable code actions.

  • Integrated language models to serve as the backbone for agents.
  • Conducted comprehensive performance evaluations to ensure robustness of agents.
  • Developed real-world agent use cases demonstrating web search, data analysis and data processing.


FreeRAG: Lightweight Retrieval-Augmented Generation Framework

FreeRAG is a lightweight FastAPI and Haystack-based application providing efficient retrieval-augmented generation.

  • Developed a modular RAG system supporting multiple data sources including plain text, PDFs, and URLs.
  • Implemented hybrid search combining BM25 and dense retrieval for improved result quality.
  • Built advanced retrieval features including contextual embeddings, query expansion, and metadata filtering.
  • Implemented an adapter for Hugging Face Text Embedding Interface to integrate local embedding and reranking models.


Generative Internet Search with Local LLMs

A generative internet search using Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) to process natural language queries, search the internet, and generate contextually relevant responses using open-source LLMs.

  • Implemented RAG pipeline combining local metasearch engine and Llama3-8B model.
  • Designed relevance-based filtering and re-ranking system for search results optimization.
  • Built agentic RAG demonstration integrating the search tool into an agentic workflow.


Perceiver IO

A PyTorch library implementing the Perceiver architecture family with distributed training and inference capabilities.

  • Implemented optical flow estimation predicting the apparent motion of each pixel between two consecutive video frames.
  • Developed symbolic audio modeling using Perceiver AR, trained on GiantMIDI-Piano dataset for MIDI generation.

Programmiersprachen

Python
Scala
Java

Datenbanken

Milvus
Weaviate
Qdrant
PostgreSQL
MongoDB

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