Danny-michael B.
Senior AI Engineer
Experience
Jul 2021 - Present
4 years 6 monthsBremen, Germany
Senior AI Engineer
Just Add AI GmbH
- Automatic detection of content in various documents
- Recommendation engine
- Dynamic pricing
Mar 2018 - Jun 2021
3 years 4 monthsBremen, Germany
Member of Executive Management; Product Development Project Lead; Lead Software Engineer Machine Learning / Data Science
Neuland – Büro für Informatik GmbH
- Executive management consists of the working partners and four employees appointed by all partners of the company.
- As the only IT specialist among the employees in management, my main focuses are technology and innovation, public relations, product development.
- Product development project lead: - confidential -
- As Lead Software Engineer Machine Learning / Data Science (for Höffner Online GmbH & Co. KG): built a cross-functional data science team, led it technically and professionally.
- As Lead Software Engineer Machine Learning / Data Science: main contact and strategic advisor for the client.
- As Lead Software Engineer Machine Learning / Data Science: established agile data science processes (peer and code reviews, research time, hackathons, retrospectives, blameless post-mortems, joint learning).
- As Lead Software Engineer Machine Learning / Data Science: facilitated workshops with clients and colleagues.
- As Lead Software Engineer Machine Learning / Data Science: developed a hybrid recommendation engine (content based / image similarity and collaborative filtering).
- As Lead Software Engineer Machine Learning / Data Science: product list ranking.
- As Lead Software Engineer Machine Learning / Data Science: real-time optimization / bandit algorithms.
- As Lead Software Engineer Machine Learning / Data Science: built a pipeline for online A/B tests, Bayesian analysis.
- As Lead Software Engineer Machine Learning / Data Science: migration from self-hosted to cloud hosting.
- As Lead Software Engineer Machine Learning / Data Science: data engineering for clickstream data.
- As Lead Software Engineer Machine Learning / Data Science: DevOps / administration.
- As Lead Software Engineer Machine Learning / Data Science: image similarity / image clustering with deep learning.
- Technologies (for Lead Software Engineer Machine Learning / Data Science): Scikit-learn, TensorFlow, Keras, Flask, PyMC3, Python, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Apache Spark, Java, Apache Hadoop, Apache Kafka, JavaScript, Vue.js, D3, ….
Apr 2014 - Mar 2018
4 yearsBremen, Germany
Lead Software Developer / Technical Project Lead (for bonprix Handelsgesellschaft mbH)
Neuland Bremen GmbH
- Built the first agile, cross-functional Scrum team in collaboration with bonprix project managers, focusing on personalization and identification (personalized ranking, recommendations, cross-device recognition, …).
- Advised on reorienting the software architecture of the entire shop platform to Self-contained Systems (SCS).
- Facilitated workshops with clients and colleagues.
- Led the development of the first system / microservices for real-time content personalization.
- Full-stack software development (frontend, backend).
- During this time, I ran numerous company workshops on data science and machine learning, trained colleagues, founded a “Data Driven Guild” for company-wide knowledge sharing, and led and supported the acquisition of our first data science projects.
- Talk: data2day 2017 (dpunkt.verlag GmbH) on “Real-Time Optimization in Practice”.
- Talk: internal Neuland “Expert Day” on “Data Treasures in E-Commerce”.
- Talk: Data Lounge Bremen (Meetup) on “Real-Time Optimization”.
- Started a partnership with the Cognitive Systems Lab, Prof. Tanja Schultz, University of Bremen; sponsored the “Bremen Big Data Challenge”.
- Competed in a Kaggle competition (>3500 participants), ranking in the top 10%.
Jun 2012 - Apr 2014
1 year 11 monthsBremen, Germany
Senior Software Developer in .NET
neusta software development GmbH
- Classic software development / team leadership in the .NET environment (small and medium-sized projects, including Airbus).
Apr 2011 - Jun 2012
1 year 3 monthsKassel, Germany
Senior Software Developer “Green IT Startup”
JouleX GmbH (today Cisco)
- Built data engineering for massive processing of sensor data from large networks (millions of devices with many data points per day).
- Business intelligence / big data to uncover savings in energy consumption / CO2 emissions.
- What-if scenarios using regression analysis.
- Time series clustering / outlier detection.
May 2008 - Apr 2011
3 yearsGiessen, Germany
Lead Developer (for a major bank’s fund management company)
Coding Ant Technologies GmbH
- Technical lead of up to two teams in parallel.
- Developed modules for a heterogeneous decision support system used by all participants in the investment process across markets.
- Integrated systems across multiple continents.
- Developed and optimized BI-like SQL queries.
- Automated regression analyses via MATLAB.
- …
- Technologies: .NET, ASP.NET, C#, HTML, JavaScript, MATLAB, …
- Private side projects: During this time I successfully completed the first worldwide online course “Introduction to Artificial Intelligence” by Sebastian Thrun and Peter Norvig (“Letter of Accomplishment”), which many started but few finished.
- Private side projects: I also focused on math courses at FernUniversität in Hagen and successfully passed university exams.
Dec 2003 - May 2008
4 years 6 monthsGermany
Freelance Software Development & Project Lead (for various clients)
“kurbel”
- During my freelance years I mainly worked for a media industry client (book production / typesetting). I built a web-based, integrated content management system for the entire workflow of cross-media book production (print, PDF, e-book, online).
- I also took on the technical leadership of the project for the client.
- I acquired and handled various smaller consulting jobs and assignments.
- Trivia: In 2004 I created the first German Wikipedia article on “Backpropagation,” as well as entries on the “Perceptron” and other lemmas. It shows I was already exploring artificial neural networks back then.
Apr 1998 - Dec 2003
5 years 9 monthsLinden, Germany
Head of Internet Development
Wave Computersysteme GmbH
- In my early years at the company, first as an intern and then as an apprentice IT specialist, my extensive prior experience from childhood allowed me to advance the E-commerce platforms of ALTERNATE (B2C) and Wave Computer (B2B) and finish my IHK apprenticeship in half the time. After being hired full-time I became team lead of internet development, the nucleus for in-house development.
- Technical lead of a team of full-time staff, apprentices, and students.
- Built one of the largest e-commerce platforms.
- Established lightweight development processes in frontend and backend.
- Led the development of a rule-based expert system for complete PC configuration (“PC configurator”).
- Migrated the webshop from Perl to Java.
- …
Summary
At the age of 9 I developed my first computer program. It is a wonderful privilege to earn a living from your passion. As an ambitious self-taught learner, I have built broad IT skills over the last 33 years that I love to share. Artificial intelligence and “smart algorithms” have always driven my personal development. I confidently move along the value chain, focus my actions on business success, and put existing and new teams in the fast lane: always at eye level, agile, with backbone and creativity.
Languages
German
NativeEnglish
IntermediateCertifications & licenses
Letter of Accomplishment
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