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Work to create.

A selection of projects and the stories behind them.

Co Founder, CPO, and AI Engineer. Based in Munich and sometimes Berlin.

In todays worldThe only limit is the own creativity.
2025 to present

Co-Founder and CPO

Traize

Four friends and I founded Traize because valuable knowledge was hard to find and often had never been captured. We secured an IGP grant to bring the idea to life. As CPO, I shape the platform’s design and usability. We explore ways to make knowledge easier to collect and retrieve, helping people and companies capture their knowledge and find it when they need it. I am also part of the Traize Research team.

Traize on LinkedIn
Product designUsabilityKnowledge captureKnowledge retrieval
2024 to present

LLMOps and AI Engineer

Career1Group

Career1Group trains participants in Germany’s publicly funded continuing education market, and the aim is to give them the best learning experience in that market. I planned the AI powered content platform behind our courses and work on it end to end: the data model and its migrations, the frontend, the agent workflows that draft and refine learning material, and the evaluation, deployment and monitoring that keep it running in production. It streamlines the content production workflow and makes the team noticeably more productive.

Service architectureMicroservicesDevOpsLLMOpsGoogle Cloud PlatformAI agent workflows
2020 to 2024

Working Student

Discovery Life Sciences

As a scientific assistant, I managed an internal tutorial series for the Visiopharm software.

Scientific softwareProject management
2019 to 2020

Working Student

AstraZeneca

I returned to the Definiens team in 2019, by then part of AstraZeneca. In computational pathology, I implemented and adapted neural networks for segmentation and artifact detection on immunohistochemistry tissue images. This was my first experience of professional programming and a formative year for my work in data science.

Neural networksComputational pathology
March 2017

Intern

Definiens AG

After starting out in statistics, I wanted to work closer to biology. My internship at Definiens introduced me to programming, web development, data visualization, and data science, and set me on the path to bioinformatics. Definiens had been acquired by AstraZeneca’s MedImmune in 2014; I returned to the team in 2019.

2014 to 2016

Administrative Assistant

Targos Molecular Pathology GmbH

While still in high school, I handled customer data in LIMS and supported the team with administrative tasks.

University projects

2022 · Technical University of Munich

deconvsurvR

A university team project: an R Shiny application to discover, deconvolute, and analyze bulk RNA sequencing data. Course grade: 1.0.

RShinyBioinformatics
2020 · Technical University of Munich

Keyword Paper Miner

A university team project: a Flask web application to find and collect scientific papers from PubMed and Google Scholar. Course grade: 1.0.

PythonFlaskScientific literature