CV

Experience

Backend Team Lead — The Exploration Company

Jul 2025 – Present · Munich

• Own the backend of an internal platform serving 500+ users
• Took a requirement-versioning product for mission-critical systems from architecture through production
• Migrated DynamoDB to PostgreSQL with zero downtime and no data loss
• Lead a 4-person backend team: technical delivery and mentoring

Software & AI Engineer — Pluno

May 2024 – Jul 2025 · Munich

• Built full-stack product features, specializing in backend and LLM integration
• Optimized AI Q&A: response ratio +11%, user satisfaction +8%
• Led Slack and Zendesk integrations into core product surfaces

Software & AI Engineer — Siemens AG

Mar 2023 – Apr 2024 · Munich

• Research on sequence classification with LLMs in IoT: +12% accuracy over baseline
• Benchmarked traditional ML against LLMs for model selection
• Co-secured 2 patents for LLM use cases in IoT

…and more at early-stage startups.

Education

M.Sc. Informatics — Technical University of Munich

2024 · ML/DL, NLP

• Thesis: AI-generated text detection benchmark

B.Sc. Computer Science — TOBB University of Economics and Technology

2020 · Full scholarship

• Undergraduate TA (2018–2020): C Programming, OOP with C++