Manuel Pasieka

AI Engineer

Manuel Pasieka
Vienna, Austria

Experience

Jul 2025 - Present
7 months

AI Engineer

Misumi Europe GmbH & Motius GmbH

  • Designed and built a next-generation NLP platform to accelerate sales-driven customer service through intelligent request analysis and routing, reducing average customer query response time by 30%.
  • Architected a hybrid NLP system combining Large Language Models (LLMs) with traditional NLP pipelines for robust, explainable results.
  • Developed request classification and routing mechanisms to accelerate customer support teams in handling customer queries faster and more accurately.
  • Optimized LLM based data extraction and classification with context engineering.
  • Integrated the platform into customer service processes, reducing response times and enhancing workforce efficiency.
May 2024 - Jul 2025
1 year 3 months

AI Solution Architect

CANCOM Austria AG

  • Lead architect of an AI agent platform for enterprise knowledge management powered by LLMs and RAG.
  • Designed and implemented an extensible Python-based agent framework.
  • Architected retrieval pipelines with Azure AI Search for secure, high-performance access.
  • Built customer-specific RAG workflows and integration with enterprise systems.
  • Mentored junior developers and shaped team best practices.
May 2024 - Dec 2024
8 months

AI Consultant

Kapsch TrafficCom AG

  • Acted as a trusted advisor to C-level executives, translating business needs into technical roadmaps and presenting ROI analyses for AI investment.
  • Provided strategic consulting on LLM integration in business processes.
  • Evaluated feasibility and ROI of LLM-driven prototypes.
  • Identified high-impact automation opportunities.
  • Proposed AI use cases to modernize workflows and optimize costs.
Jan 2024 - Present
2 years 1 month

CEO

Pasieka AI Solutions GmbH

  • Providing AI consultancy and tailored solutions with a focus on secure LLM adoption.
Jun 2023 - May 2024
1 year

Founder

Pallas

  • Created Pallas, a knowledge management platform leveraging RAG for secure enterprise document intelligence.
  • Developed a containerized microservice architecture for on-prem/VPC deployment.
  • Integrated multiple knowledge bases (Confluence, SharePoint, File Servers).
  • Implemented hybrid search with query and document expansion.
  • Optimized open-source LLMs for enterprise Q&A and retrieval.
Mar 2023 - Jun 2023
4 months

AI Consultant

mySugr GmbH

  • Trained employees on LLM fundamentals.
  • Designed LLM-based process automation proofs of concept.
  • Conducted feasibility and impact studies for scaling AI solutions.
May 2022 - May 2022
1 month

AI Architect

Brantner Digital Solutions GmbH

  • Designed and prototyped a dataset manifest and MLFlow integration for tracking datasets and retraining models.
  • Built visualizations for comparing model performance.
Apr 2022 - Apr 2025
3 years 1 month

Tech Lead & Data Engineer

Siemens AG & Motius GmbH

  • Led development of a cloud-based spare part observability platform for Siemens customers.
  • Re-architected the data processing backend to improve reliability.
  • Built a multi-tenant scale-to-zero architecture to optimize cloud costs.
  • Enhanced data models and database access for performance gains.
Apr 2022 - Jun 2023
1 year 3 months

Tech Lead & Data Engineer

CARIAD

  • Developed an analytics platform for extracting insights from voice-based customer interactions.
  • Built and maintained speech-to-text pipelines and NLP models for topic and entity extraction.
  • Delivered Tableau dashboards to support business analysts with real-time insights.
Jan 2021 - Present
5 years 1 month

Founder & Host

Austrian Artificial Intelligence Podcast

  • Showcasing academia and industry AI innovations.
Jun 2020 - Apr 2022
1 year 11 months

Senior Machine Learning Engineer

MOSTLY.AI

  • Developed the synthetic data generation engine protecting privacy while maintaining data utility.
  • Designed and improved encoding types for structured data.
  • Built internal tooling for reproducible ML training.
  • Delivered customer proofs of concept with technical guidance and product expertise.
  • Created ML-focused training material and mentored junior scientists.
Jan 2020 - Apr 2020
4 months

Data Scientist

Craftworks GmbH

  • Delivered data science projects across industries, focusing on applied machine learning and customer needs.
Jun 2012 - Oct 2019
7 years 5 months

Scientific Software Engineer

Vienna Biocenter Core Facilities

  • Developed software platforms for neuroscience research.
  • Built data analysis pipelines for neuronal activity and behavior classification.
  • Designed hardware control software for experiments.
  • Created data visualization and network analysis tools.
Sep 2011 - Oct 2012
1 year 2 months

Research Assistant

Universidad Politécnica de Valencia

  • Built a simulation environment controlled by a stationary replica of an autonomous vehicle.
Jun 2007 - Sep 2010
3 years 4 months

Embedded Systems Engineer

Adaptivia GmbH

  • Designed low-power SoC embedded systems for underground wireless sensor networks.

Summary

I help development teams and organizations turn AI concepts into production-ready systems. My strength lies in bridging the gap between cutting-edge AI research and practical software delivery — enabling teams to build reliable, scalable AI products faster and with less risk. As an AI Solution Architect & Consultant with over 15 years of hands-on experience, I focus on designing secure, high-impact AI platforms for enterprises — particularly AI Agent systems based on LLM and RAG workflows — while ensuring robust data protection and governance compliance.

Skills

  • Ai Strategy & Consulting

  • Ai Use Case Discovery

  • Feasibility & Roi Analysis

  • Executive Guidance

  • Responsible Ai & Data Governance

  • Ai Adoption Roadmaps

  • Architecture & Engineering

  • Ai Agent Frameworks (Ms Copilot Studio, Pydantic Agents, Langchain)

  • Llm & Rag Systems

  • Vector Databases (Qdrant, Ms Ai Search)

  • Model Fine-tuning & Serving (Axolothl, Unsloth, Vllm, Tgi)

  • Cloud-native & Scalable Microservice Architecture

  • Python

  • R

  • Matplotlib

  • Java

  • Mlops & Cloud

  • Aws

  • Azure

  • Kubernetes

  • Docker

  • Terraform

  • Sagemaker

  • Mlflow

  • Data Engineering & Infrastructure

  • Data Pipelines

  • Workflow Orchestration

  • Spark

  • Airflow

  • Redis

  • Opentelemetry

  • Fastapi

  • Leadership & Team Enablement

  • Tech Leadership

  • Mentoring & Training

  • Outcome-focused Product Development

  • Cross-functional Collaboration

Languages

German
Native
English
Advanced
Spanish
Elementary

Education

Oct 2018 - Jun 2019

Universidad Internacional de La Rioja

MSc Artificial Intelligence · Artificial Intelligence · Spain

Oct 2010 - Jun 2012

Universidad Politécnica de Valencia

MSc Parallel & Distributed Computing · Parallel & Distributed Computing · Valencia, Spain

Oct 2005 - Jun 2009

Technical University of Vienna

BSc Computer Science · Computer Science · Vienna, Austria

Certifications & licenses

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

CompTIA Security+

Google Cybersecurity

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