Industry Experience

We automate manual processes with AI agents that understand your business logic, collaborate with your team, and learn from your expertise. We draw on 8+ years of AI/ML engineering and 20+ years of architecting, developing, and operating production software systems at scale.

Development of an AI-powered visual and hybrid search platform built as a cloud-native solution with horizontal scalability as a key feature. Training of custom query processing models with synthetic data to deliver accurate search results across diverse content types.

Conception and development of a multimodal, agentic AI search engine with semantic understanding of images, videos, documents, and audio, enhanced through domain-specific model fine-tuning for media organizations. Supports facial recognition for identity-constrained searches, and image aesthetics assessment for selecting images with perceived highest quality.

Focused on deep learning and traditional machine learning, supported by a detailed review of statistics and mathematics. Work included completing online certifications and publishing technical articles and open-source projects. Balanced the study of scientific theory with ML engineering best-practices.

Global distribution of the data management layer of RBMH's in-house DAM system for low-latency and partition-tolerant access to local datacenters. The developed inter-datacenter replication mechanism provides causal consistency guarantees and supports convergence of application state under concurrent updates via operation-based CRDTs. The generic part of the solution was open-sourced as Eventuate toolkit.

Development of a streaming platform for calculating real-time odds and risk models in sports betting applications. Bets on odds from up to hundred bookmakers, each with several thousand constantly changing odds, are used to calculate models for adjusting a bookmaker's odds such that their risk is minimized. Development of streaming data analytics extensions for Eventuate.

Development of Akka Persistence which enables stateful Akka actors to persist their state via event sourcing. Events are written to append-only storage which allows for very high transaction rates and efficient replication. A stateful actor is recovered by replaying stored events to the actor, allowing it to rebuild its internal state.

Developmenent of the persistence layer of an e-wallet management web service for customers in the online gambling industry. Implementation of an event sourcing architecture for supporting low-latency and high-throughput transactions. The core components of the persistence layer were open-sourced as Eventsourced library.

I partner with clients to develop and operate software systems at scale, with a focus on artificial intelligence, distributed systems, event sourcing and system integration. See industry experience for a selected list of projects, and stories for selected open source contributions.

Development of the Open eHealth Integration Platform (IPF), a platform for integrating healthcare information systems. IPF was open sourced in 2008 after several years of in-house development and application in customer projects. IPF's programming model is a domain-specific language (DSL) for implementing enterprise integration patterns in healthcare-specific integration solutions, based on HL7 and IHE standards.

Development of a distributed computing solution for integrating chemical analysis tools in a drug discovery pipeline, with fault-tolerant scheduling of tool executions and aggregation of analysis results, for unified experience across research locations in different countries. Implementation of high-performance hierarchical clustering algorithms that reduced analysis times by 1-2 orders of magnitude.

Development of algorithms and software for ab-initio protein structure prediction. Application of statistical mechanics for protein structure optimization and evaluation.

Development of a patient transportation management system in the IT department of the Red Cross in Graz, Austria. Work done during my civil service at the Red Cross.