# Resume

## Martin Krasser

Freelance AI engineer and architect

Freelance AI engineer and architect with a proven track-record in agentic systems, machine learning, distributed systems, and system integration. 20+ years of experience in architecting, developing, and operating production software systems at scale. Extensive industry experience in both technical and leadership roles. Active open source contributor.

## Industry Experience


### Custom Agentic AI & ML solutions

**Company:** [Gradion AI](https://gradion.ai)

**Roles:** Founder

**Period:** 2025 - present



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.



### AI-powered visual search platform

**Company:** [Canto](https://www.canto.com/)

**Roles:** Senior Director Machine Learning, Lead Machine Learning Engineer

**Period:** 2023 - 2024

**Type:** Freelance


Development of an AI-powered <a href="https://www.canto.com/product/ai-visual-search/">visual and hybrid search</a> 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.



### Merlin Accelerated Intelligence (AI) Suite

**Company:** [MerlinOne](https://merlinone.com/)

**Roles:** Director Machine Learning, Lead Machine Learning Engineer

**Period:** 2018 - 2023

**Type:** Freelance


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.



### Applied machine learning study

**Company:** [https://martin-krasser.com](https://martin-krasser.com)

**Roles:** Sabbatical Year

**Period:** 2017 - 2018



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



### Global distribution of a digital asset management system

**Company:** [Red Bull Media House](http://www.redbullmediahouse.com/)

**Roles:** Distributed Systems Engineer

**Period:** 2014 - 2017

**Type:** Freelance


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 <a href="https://rbmhtechnology.github.io/eventuate/architecture.html#operation-based-crdts">operation-based CRDTs</a>. The generic part of the solution was open-sourced as <a href="https://rbmhtechnology.github.io/eventuate/overview.html">Eventuate</a> toolkit.



### Streaming platform for sports betting applications

**Company:** [agido GmbH](http://www.agido.com/)

**Roles:** Distributed Systems Engineer

**Period:** 2015 - 2017

**Type:** Freelance


Development of a streaming platform for calculating <a href="https://www.agido.com/projekte">real-time odds and risk models</a> 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.



### Akka Persistence: actor state persistence via event sourcing

**Company:** [Lightbend](http://www.lightbend.com/)

**Roles:** Software Engineer, Software Architect

**Period:** 2013 - 2014

**Type:** Freelance


Development of <a href="https://doc.akka.io/docs/akka/current/persistence.html">Akka Persistence</a> which enables stateful <a href="https://akka.io/">Akka</a> 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.



### Low-latency, high-throughput e-wallet management web service

**Company:** [Eligotech BV](http://www.eligotech.com/)

**Roles:** Software Engineer, Software Architect

**Period:** 2012 - 2013

**Type:** Freelance


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 <a href="https://github.com/eligosource/eventsourced">Eventsourced</a> library.



### Software development and consulting services

**Company:** [https://martin-krasser.com](https://martin-krasser.com)

**Roles:** Independent software engineer and architect

**Period:** 2011 - present

**Type:** Freelance


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 <a href="/industry/">industry experience</a> for a selected list of projects, and <a href="/stories/">stories</a> for selected open source contributions.



### E-Health integration platform based on HL7 and IHE standards

**Company:** [InterComponentWare AG](https://icw-global.com/)

**Roles:** Lead Software Architect, Senior Software Engineer

**Period:** 2005 - 2011



Development of the <a href="https://oehf.github.io/ipf-docs/">Open eHealth Integration Platform</a> (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 <a href="https://www.enterpriseintegrationpatterns.com/">enterprise integration patterns</a> in healthcare-specific integration solutions, based on <a href="http://www.hl7.org/">HL7</a> and <a href="https://www.ihe.net/">IHE</a> standards.



### Distributed scientific computing solution for a drug discovery pipeline

**Company:** [LION Bioscience AG](http://www.lionbioscience.com/)

**Roles:** Senior Software Architect, Senior Software Engineer

**Period:** 2000 - 2004



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.



### Ab-initio protein structure prediction

**Company:** [University of Salzburg](http://uni-salzburg.at/), CAME

**Roles:** Software Developer, Research Assistant

**Period:** 1999 - 2000



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



### Patient transportation management system

**Company:** [Austrian Red Cross](http://www.roteskreuz.at/)

**Roles:** Software Developer

**Period:** 1998 - 1999



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.