Work

What I've done, in order.

A decade of AI and data engineering — starting in audit, ending up leading products built on LLMs. The pattern, I hope, is that I ship.

Jun 2025

Now

Senior AI Engineer (L7)

Checkmk

Led AI enablement for 70+ R&D engineers, driving 85% weekly active usage of AI tooling via workshops, pairing, and curated internal docs.
Architected and shipped Checkmk's first AI-aided development pipeline, reaching 100+ daily internal uses.
Leading end-to-end design and rollout of Checkmk's first AI-powered product feature.
Member of the AI Steering Committee, shaping company-wide AI strategy across R&D, product, and operations (300+ employees).
Led AI pentesting on LLM-based features, uncovering 40 vulnerabilities and establishing a secure-by-design baseline for future AI releases.

Full-time

Jun 2024

Now

Co-founder & AI Advisor

DatAIMed

Cofounded DatAIMed and steer its end-to-end AI strategy, shaping product roadmap and research direction for proprietary medical solutions.
Drove 50% cost reduction across AI workloads by redesigning legacy pipelines around agent-based architectures and modern LLM orchestration.
Negotiated strategic partnerships with 5+ healthcare institutions, expanding clinical data access and validation reach.
Hired 5+ engineers and data scientists to stand up the AI function from scratch.
Architected a multi-collection MongoDB vector database storing millions of scientific papers, powering semantic search across the medical knowledge base.

Co-founder

Oct 2024

Now

Creator & Maintainer

ErisForge

Open-source Python library for modifying LLM internal layers — refusal control, tone customization, censorship research, and adversarial testing.
200+ stars on GitHub, 100 points on Hacker News.

Open source

Apr 2024

Now

Member

Global AI Association

Swiss non-profit representing AI stakeholders to the UN and international bodies, advocating for ethical AI and favorable regulatory environments.

Advisory

Mar 2025

Jun 2025

AI Lead

Tinexta Innovation Hub

Led end-to-end delivery of 2 production GenAI solutions (RAG, multi-agent, graph-based) serving 20+ enterprise clients.
Negotiated AI scope and roadmap with enterprise clients across 4 strategic accounts, translating business needs into technical requirements.
Led 2 LLM training sessions for technical stakeholders, accelerating internal GenAI adoption.
Mentored 2 junior engineers to independent project ownership in ~6 months.

Full-time

Apr 2024

Mar 2025

AI Specialist

Tinexta Innovation Hub

Built LLM agent and multi-agent systems and optimized the search pipeline, cutting query latency by 50%+.
Architected an ElasticSearch index of 100M+ legal documents and authored 20+ high-performance queries, reducing latency by 30%+ vs the prior solution.
Shipped GenAI use cases (RAG, multi-agent) that became part of the platform later productized under the AI Lead role.

Full-time

Nov 2022

May 2024

NLP Data Scientist

Greenomy

Led development of Artemis, Greenomy's AI advisor, from prototype to production serving 5+ enterprise users.
Shipped 10+ LLM use cases across agent and RAG architectures, cutting manual analyst effort by 80%.
Won 2nd place at the SWIFT Hackathon "Let's innovate for a sustainable future" (out of 10 teams).
Onboarded and mentored 3 new joiners, shortening ramp-up to ~10 weeks.

Full-time

Apr 2022

Nov 2022

Group Audit Data Scientist

Generali

Owned data science operations for Group Audit, delivering 5+ ML models supporting auditors across the group.
Designed and deployed ML, deep learning, and NLP models for auditing and control workflows, reducing manual review effort by 80%.
Built ETL pipelines over structured and unstructured data, enabling self-service analytics for 6+ audit use cases.

Full-time

Oct 2021

Apr 2022

Data Engineer

Flowe · Mediolanum Bank

Designed and built PySpark ETL pipelines processing tens of thousands of records daily, powering downstream analytics for 10+ teams.
Developed machine learning and deep learning models supporting production analytics workflows.

Full-time

Apr 2019

Jul 2019

Database Architect & Full Stack Developer (Intern)

EisWorld

Designed the internal compliance database schema and built a full-stack dashboard end-to-end, delivering a single source of truth for 5+ business operators.

Internship