Manuel Pasieka - AI Solution Architect

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Vienna, Austria

Experience

May 2024 - Jun 2025

1 year 2 months

Vienna, Austria

AI Solution Architect

CANCOM Austria AG

Designing and developing an extendable Python-based agent platform.
Supporting various Retriever Augmented Generation (RAG) workflows and tool use scenarios.
Developing customer-specific data processing pipelines.
Leveraging Azure AI Search for efficient information storage and retrieval.
Using Azure OpenAI deployed models for inference at scale.
Implementing customer-specific platform modifications.

May 2024 - Dec 2024

8 months

Vienna, Austria

AI Consultant

Kapsch TrafficCom AG

Analyzing the potential of Large Language Models (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 4 months

Vienna, Austria

CEO

Pasieka AI Solutions GmbH

Strategic AI consultancy.
Method development and technology selection.
AI product and prototype development.

Sep 2023 - Jun 2024

10 months

Participant

Entrepreneurship & Leadership Program (Austrian Startups)

A one-year immersive program focused on startup skills, leadership development, and mutual support.

Jun 2023 - May 2024

1 year

Founder

Pallas

Scalable containerized microservice architecture.
Integration of multiple knowledge bases (Confluence, SharePoint, FileServers, etc.).
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 months

Participant

Founders Lab (Wiener Wirtschaftskammer)

Entrepreneurship program focusing on developing essential skills and networks for founders to start their journey of building startups.

Mar 2023 - Jun 2023

4 months

AI Consultant

mySugr GmbH

Employee training on fundamental concepts of Large Language Models.
Development of LLM use cases for process automation.
Feasibility study and proof of concept design.

May 2022 - May 2022

1 month

AI Architect

Brantner Digital Solutions GmbH

Building a dataset manifest.
Tracking model retraining with MLFlow.
Visualizing and comparing models based on their performance.

Apr 2022 - Apr 2025

3 years 1 month

Vienna, Austria

Tech Lead & Data Engineer

Motius GmbH

Developing a cloud-focused system architecture to enable 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 months

Tech 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-built solutions.
Topic modeling.
Named entity and relation extraction and aggregation.
Building a Tableau-based dashboard for business analysts.

Apr 2021 - Present

4 years 4 months

Founder & Host

Austrian Artificial Intelligence Podcast

Regularly inviting speakers from academia and industry to discuss their work and research in the field of Artificial Intelligence.
Exploring the Austrian AI landscape and learning about interesting methods and use cases.

Jun 2020 - Apr 2022

1 year 11 months

Vienna, Austria

Senior Machine Learning Engineer

MOSTLY.AI

Developing new encoding types and improving existing ones.
Building internal tooling for reproducible model training.
Providing technical guidance and resolving issues in customer PoCs.
Developing training material focused on the machine learning aspects of the product.
Supporting junior data scientists with supervision, onboarding, and training.

Jan 2020 - Apr 2020

4 months

Data Scientist

Craftworks GmbH

Solution-focused development of data science projects for customers from various industries.

Jun 2012 - Oct 2019

7 years 5 months

Vienna, Austria

Scientific Software Engineer

Vienna Biocenter Core Facilities

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 months

Valencia, Spain