Adrian Calma

Product Owner with Data Science Background

Adrian Calma
Berlin, Germany

Experience

Aug 2023 - Present
1 year 7 months
Germany

Senior Consultant

DB Systel GmbH

Spearheading the development of MLOps and crafting the MLOps strategies, guiding the market exploration efforts wrt. to MLOPs, and managing requirements.

Oct 2022 - Feb 2023
5 months

Product Owner

Signatrix GmbH

Product ownership for the loss-prevention products, while developing a completely new AI-based product for the supervision of the baked goods shelves.

Aug 2022 - Sep 2022
2 months
Germany

Venture Developer

German Deep Tech Institute

In depth market research, including market size, market trends, and competition analysis for 6 potential business cases.

Jun 2021 - May 2022
1 year
Kassel, Germany

Postdoc-UNIKAT-Fellowship

University of Kassel

The Postdoc UNIKAT Fellowship sponsored by the B. Braun Melsungen AG for outstanding applied research at the University of Kassel allowed me to explore the precision farming market and proof the concept with one potential client.

Jan 2020 - Present
4 years 2 months

CEO - Tech and Business Development

Annotly UG (haftungsbeschränkt)

Business development and implementation of a SaaS/mobile app solution for early plant disease detection.

Jun 2020 - Mar 2021
10 months

Senior Machine Learning Engineer - Human-in-the-Loop

Signatrix GmbH

Implement active learning in combination with deep learning; management of the annotation team.

Nov 2018 - Jun 2019
8 months

Co-Founder - CTO

HI darwin Inc.

Implementing the decision support model for evaluating early stage investment opportunities.

Sep 2018 - Mar 2020
1 year 7 months

Co-Founder - CTO

vencortex UG (haftungsbeschränkt)

The areas of responsibilities were a combination of CTO/CEO, focused more on the technical part.

Oct 2014 - Apr 2019
4 years 7 months
Kassel, Germany

PhD Candidate - Active Machine Learning

University of Kassel

Development of active machine learning algorithms that take the uncertainty of the annotators into consideration. Writing grant proposals and publishing 24 peer-reviewed papers.

Summary

Soft Skills - Product Management and Ownership. Led cross-functional teams in the development and deployment of MLOps solutions, driving stakeholder alignment and prioritizing user stories for optimal product delivery. - Team Lead. CTO and CEO startup experience with teams of up to 9 persons (tech, sales, and marketing). - Mentoring and Consultancy. Technical guidance for the founders of iurCrowd, a Legal Tech Startup based in Berlin, on identifying resources and exploring development options for their MVP; spearheading the development of MLOps strategies and providing market exploration support for large German corporations. Technical Skills - Human-in-the-Loop (Active Learning). Longstanding experience with Human-in-the-Loop (Active Learning) approaches, including annotator management - Machine Learning and Pattern Recognition. Comprehensive knowledge with projects in object and outlier detection, and classification - Software Engineering (Python). Profound knowledge in the conception of software frameworks with realized applications in the areas of fintech and precision farming - Development and Operations (DevOps). Multiple years of running python microservices in a cloud environment (deployment, containerization, etc.)

Languages

Romanian
Native
English
Advanced
German
Advanced

Education

Oct 2014 - Jan 2020

University of Kassel

PhD in Computer Science · Computer Science · Kassel, Germany

Oct 2012 - Sep 2014

University of Kassel

Master of Science in Computer Science · Computer Science · Kassel, Germany

Oct 2009 - Sep 2012

University of Kassel

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science · Computer Science · Kassel, Germany

Certifications & licenses

Certified SAFe® 6 Agilist

Professional Agile Leadership™ - Evidence-Based Management™ (PAL-EBM)

Professional Scrum Product Owner™ II (PSPO II)

Professional Scrum Product Owner™ I (PSPO I)