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Ahmad Varasteh
Konstanz, Germany

Experience

May 2025 - Present
9 months
Konstanz, Germany

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Exorbyte GmbH

  • Lead engineer for the MatchMaker Toolbox (KNIME): Index Builder, Approximate Matcher, Character Mapper, license nodes
  • Designed M|ARS (MatchMaker Agentic Retrieval System) — hybrid retrieval combining deterministic search + LLM tooling
  • Developed internal RAG and search prototypes (MatchMaker + vector search + LLM)
Nov 2024 - May 2025
7 months
Berlin, Germany

AI Curriculum Portfolio Manager

Ironhack

  • Led the design and development of AI/Data curriculum including learning objectives, project design, and assessments
  • Built hands-on AI modules (LLMs, ML, data processing)
  • Improved content development workflow and introduced structured curriculum frameworks
Aug 2023 - Aug 2024
1 year 1 month
Konstanz, Germany

Data Scientist

User Generated Design GmbH

  • Developed AI products across logistics, production, sustainability, and sales domains
  • Built CO₂ emission estimation system using LangChain, GraphRAG, Neo4j, Azure OpenAI
  • Created order automation using Llama 3.0 → +6% conversion increase (A/B testing)
  • Implemented predictive maintenance on vibration data (PCA, IoT Hub)
Apr 2022 - Oct 2022
7 months
Konstanz, Germany

Lecturer

University of Konstanz

  • Topics taught: Text Mining, JSON, REST APIs, Python, Pandas
Nov 2021 - Jun 2023
1 year 8 months
Konstanz, Germany

Data Science Intern

KNIME AG

  • Built dashboards and analytics visualizations (D3.js, Plotly, ECharts)
  • Developed geospatial and process-based visualization components
  • Supported curriculum and learning material development for the Data Evangelism Team
Feb 2020 - Dec 2024
4 years 11 months
Mountain View, United States

AI Course Author

Coursera Inc.

  • Created 10+ AI/ML courses for more than 80,000 global learners
  • Focus areas: LLMs, Python, PySpark, Generative AI, Data Science
  • Designed real-world scenarios for B2B and B2C learning programs

Summary

Data Scientist and AI Engineer specializing in LLMs, RAG systems, deterministic matching, AI-powered search, and intelligent automation. Experienced in building production-grade solutions using Python, LangChain, KNIME, Neo4j, and Azure.

Taught and mentored a global community of 80,000+ learners through Coursera’s AI and Data Science programs.

Skills

  • Python
  • Java
  • Javascript
  • C/c++/c#
  • Llms
  • Rag
  • Langchain
  • Pytorch
  • Tensorflow
  • Scikit-learn
  • Graphrag
  • Deterministic Matching
  • Indexing
  • Similarity Search
  • Azure Ml
  • Azure Openai
  • Iot Hub
  • Fastapi
  • Node.js
  • Flask
  • Knime
  • Power Bi
  • D3.js
  • Plotly
  • Echarts
  • Postgresql
  • Mongodb
  • Neo4j Aura
  • Spark
  • Hadoop

Languages

Persian
Native
English
Advanced
German
Intermediate

Education

Oct 2021 - Sep 2023

University of Konstanz

Master of Science, Computer and Information Science · Computer and Information Science · Konstanz, Germany

Oct 2014 - Jun 2018

Sadjad University of Technology

Bachelor of Science, Software Engineering · Software Engineering · Mashhad, Iran, Islamic Republic of

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