Experience
Apr 2023 – present
CARIAD · Berlin
Volkswagen Group software company
Head of AI Deployment Oct 2025 – present
Leads a team of 12 engineers that takes AI models from research prototypes to production on a volume-production ADAS platform (CARIAD–Bosch Automated Driving Alliance).
- Owns production reliability, performance and auditability under ISO 26262 and ASPICE: latency, memory and power targets, release quality and traceability.
- Works directly with enterprise stakeholders at Volkswagen Group brands (Volkswagen, Audi) on requirements, priorities and delivery.
- Leads technical discussions with semiconductor partners Qualcomm, Samsung and NVIDIA on integration and performance.
- Drives shared tooling and automation so model teams deliver consistently across multiple platforms.
Senior ML Software Engineer Apr 2023 – Oct 2025
Technical Product Owner for the AI Runtime Environment; developed and deployed AI perception models on Qualcomm accelerators.
- Built a Python SDK for model conversion, quantization and optimization, plus a runtime abstraction layer used by engineering teams across the organization.
- Supported internal customer teams end to end, from scoping their use cases to production integration.
- Developed sensor-fusion, 3D-occupancy and behaviour-prediction models and deployed them on Qualcomm AI accelerators under real-time constraints.
- Mentored engineers on model optimization and deployment.
Aug 2020 – Apr 2023
NELA by Carepath Technologies · Berlin
NELA Cough: AI-based tele-monitoring for chronic-disease patients
AI Software Engineer → Senior IoT Engineer Aug 2020 – Apr 2023
Built NELA Cough, an AI-based tele-monitoring product, in a regulated healthcare environment.
- AI model design and real-time deployment on edge devices and MCUs, in line with IEC 60601.
- Led the IoT system architecture end to end, from requirements to production: Azure IoT cloud back end and device firmware.
- Worked with external medical hardware suppliers through to series production.
- Supported customers and partners on integration and deployment issues; built demos and technical documentation.
Jun 2014 – Aug 2020
Self-employed · Berlin & international
Clients included ProtoPixel, ElektroCouture and Moritz Waldemeyer
Creative Technologist Jun 2014 – Aug 2020
Scoped and delivered client projects end to end: interactive installations, light and video projection, live performance software and fashion tech.
- ProtoPixel (2017 – 2020): firmware and software for real-time LED lighting products; delivered the main product software as a snap package; technical evangelist.
- ElektroCouture (2016 – 2018): led design and development of wearable products; main developer of the wearable driver firmware; fashion-tech mentor.
- Engineered and ran live the show software for the multimedia dance performance Murmur (Aakash Odedra Company) on its world tour.
- Gave talks and ran workshops and hackathons in Porto, Barcelona, Berlin, Bangkok and Accra.
Oct 2011 – Jul 2014
Ars Electronica Linz · Linz
Creative Engineer Oct 2011 – Jul 2014
Built interactive computer-vision installations in C++, Python, OpenGL and OpenCV.
- Lead developer of GeoPulse, a spatial-data visualization platform (Ars Electronica Center).
- Techkriti 2012 "Brain Battle", MED-EL Audioversum exhibits.
Education
2009 – 2011
Universitat Pompeu Fabra · Barcelona
Master's Degree, Sound and Music Computing
Focus: computational modeling, perception, cognition and interactive systems.
2003 – 2009
Universidad Autónoma de Madrid · Madrid
Master's Degree, Telecommunication Engineering
Specialization: Multimedia Signal Processing, Electronic Systems.
- Erasmus year at TU Berlin (2007 – 2008).
- Research student at Fraunhofer HHI, Image Processing Department (2008 – 2009): forward error correction for video compression.
Skills
- LLM & agents
- Agentic workflows (LangGraph) · RAG & pgvector · MCP · Structured outputs (Pydantic) · Prompt engineering · LiteLLM / OpenRouter
- Evaluation & observability
- Eval frameworks & LLM-as-judge · CI eval gates · Accuracy / safety / latency / cost metrics · OpenTelemetry · Arize Phoenix
- Machine learning
- PyTorch · TensorFlow · Fine-tuning · ONNX · TensorRT · Model optimization & deployment
- Software engineering
- Python (production) · C++ · Rust · FastAPI · PostgreSQL · Docker & Compose · GitHub Actions / CI-CD · HTMX / Jinja · Linux & snap packaging
- Edge & embedded
- Qualcomm NPU · NVIDIA Jetson Orin · ROS 2 · Embedded Linux / QNX · RTOS & MCUs · Firmware · GLSL / CUDA
- Regulated environments
- IEC 60601 (healthcare) · ISO 26262 (automotive) · ASPICE · Compliance & auditability
- Creative technology
- OpenGL · openFrameworks (contributor) · OpenCV · DMX & LED systems · Interactive installations
- Delivery & leadership
- Team leadership (12 engineers) · Product ownership (SAFe PO/PM) · Stakeholder management · Mentoring · Talks & workshops
Languages
Publications
Three dimensional sonification of fMRI brain data in the musical composition Neurospaces
Exploring 3D audio for brain sonification