Manuel Pasieka
AI Solution Architect
Experience
May 2024 - Jun 2025
1 year 2 monthsAI Solution Architect
CANCOM Austria AG
- Designing and develop an extendable python-based agent platform.
- Support various RAG workflows and tool use scenarios.
- Develop customer specific data processing pipelines.
- Leveraging Azure AI Search for efficient information storage and retrieval.
- Use Azure OpenAI deployed models for inference at scale.
- Implement customer specific platform modifications.
May 2024 - Dec 2025
8 monthsAI Consultant
Kapsch TrafficCom AG
- Analyzing the potential of LLMs in existing business processes.
- Evaluating and estimating the technical feasibility and effort required to implement prototypes.
- Identifying innovative use cases for LLMs to drive business growth and efficiency.
Apr 2024 - Present
1 year 2 monthsCEO
Pasieka AI Solutions GmbH
- Strategic AI consultancy.
- Method development and technology selection.
- AI product and prototype development.
Sep 2023 - Jun 2024
10 monthsParticipant
Entrepreneurship & Leadership Program (Austrian Startups)
- The Entrepreneurial Leadership Program is a community for those who go and build rather than complain about problems.
- It’s a one-year immersive program centered around startup skills, leadership development and mutual support.
Jun 2023 - May 2024
1 yearFounder
Pallas
- Pallas is a Knowledge Management System that helps companies to make most of their documentation.
- Pallas achieves this with a scalable Retriever Augmented Generation (RAG) system that operates autonomously on-premises or in a company’s virtual private cloud (VPC), providing control and safety over internal knowledge, while accelerating finding and using important information and documents within the company.
- Scalable containerized microservice architecture
- Integration of multiple knowledge bases (Confluence, SharePoint, FileServers, …)
- Hybrid search and information retrieval using document and query expansion
- Efficient use of open-source large language models for question and answering.
Jun 2023 - Dec 2023
7 monthsParticipant
Founders Lab (Wiener Wirtschaftskammer)
- The Founders Lab is an entrepreneurship program focuses developing the essential skills and network to start founders on their journey of building a modern startup.
Mar 2023 - Jun 2023
4 monthsAI Consultant
mySugr GmbH
- Employee training on fundamental concepts of large language models.
- Development of LLM use case for process automation.
- Feasibility study and PoC design.
May 2022 - May 2022
1 monthAI Architect
Brantner Digital Solutions GmbH
- Building a dataset manifest.
- Tracking model retraining with MLFlow.
- visualizing and comparing models based on their model performance.
Apr 2022 - Apr 2025
3 years 1 monthTech Lead & Data Engineer
Motius GmbH
- Developing a cloud focused system architecture to enable the deployment of a Django based backend on AWS spot instances.
- Rearchitecting the data processing backend to increase system reliability.
- Developing a multi-tenant data processing solution that enables scale to zero.
- Extending data models and optimizing database access performance.
Apr 2022 - Jun 2023
1 year 3 monthsTech Lead & Data Engineer
CARIAD
- Developing and maintaining a voice analytics pipeline running on AWS.
- Developing and maintaining the request backend for a Voicify based mobile voice control application.
- Speech to text transcription based on cloud vendor and custom build solutions.
- Topic modeling.
- Named entity and relation extraction and aggregation.
- Building a Tableau based dashboard for business analysts.
Apr 2021 - Present
4 years 2 monthsFounder & Host
Austrian Artificial Intelligence Podcast
- I regularly invite speakers from academy and industry to talk about their work and research in the field of artificial intelligence to explore the Austrian AI landscape and learn about interesting methods and use cases.
Jun 2020 - Apr 2022
1 year 11 monthsSenior Machine Learning Engineer
MOSTLY.AI
- Built synthetic data generation engine that protects the privacy of individuals without sacrificing data quality.
- Developed new encoding types, improved existing ones and built internal tooling for reproducible model training.
- Provided technical guidance and resolved issues in customer PoCs as well as answered product related questions.
- Developed training material focusing on the ML aspects of our product for internal and customer satisfaction.
- Supported junior data scientists with supervision, onboarding and training.
Jan 2020 - Apr 2020
4 monthsData Scientist
Craftworks GmbH
- Solution focused development of data science projects for customers from various industries.
Jun 2012 - Oct 2019
7 years 5 monthsScientific Software Engineer
Vienna Biocenter Core Facilities
- Developing data analysis applications used by neuroscience researchers, like applications to automatically quantify and analyze animal behavior, and software to process and analyze neuronal activity.
- Developing hardware control software for behavior experiments.
- Building tooling for data processing and visualization.
- Creating network analysis tools for structural and behavioral neural measurements.
- Building data analysis pipelines for animal behavior classification.
Sep 2011 - Oct 2012
1 year 2 monthsResearch Assistant
Universidad Politécnica de Valencia
- Developing a simulation environment controlled by a stationary replica of an autonomous vehicle.
Jun 2007 - Sep 2010
3 years 4 monthsEmbedded System Engineer
Adaptivia GmbH
- Development of 16-bit low power SoC embedded system devices for wireless underground sensor networks.
Summary
I am a builder, entrepreneur, and AI Consultant that makes AI work for you.
Languages
German
Native
English
Advanced
Spanish
Elementary
Education
Oct 2018 - Jun 2019
Universidad Internacional de La Rioja
Master · Artificial Intelligence · Spain
Oct 2010 - Jun 2012
Universidad Politécnica de Valencia
Master · Parallel and Distributed Computing · Spain
Oct 2005 - Jun 2009
Technical University of Vienna
Bachelor’s · Computer Science · Austria
Certifications & licenses
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
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