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Selected work

My projects, roles, and technologies.

Focus areas

Cloud, DevOps & Infrastructure

5+ years

AWS architecture, networking and security, AWS CDK, Terraform, Lambda, ECS, Fargate, Batch, S3, DynamoDB, RDS, CloudFront, CloudWatch, CI/CD

MLOps & ML Engineering

5+ years

ML platform design, model lifecycle management, training and deployment pipelines, model monitoring, data security, reproducible experiments

Data Science & Machine Learning

3+ years

Exploratory analysis, PyTorch, TensorFlow, NLP, semantic search, time series, predictive analytics, classification, computer vision

GenAI & LLM-based systems

1+ years

Production LLM applications, agent orchestration, state management, AI governance, Agentic IAM, secure agent operations, RAG

Client projects · Newest first

From early applied ML to agent governance today.

2026

Agentic identity and access management, from governance model to MVP

Feb 2026 – present · 6 months · Solution Architect, AI Governance & IAM · Deputy Project Lead

  • Mapped the risks of uncontrolled agentic systems, including shadow AI, missing accountability, weak auditability, and violations of least privilege.
  • Designed an identity lifecycle and distributed ownership model for agents, capabilities, and data, with governance intensity tied to risk.
  • Defined a four-plane target architecture spanning IAM control, policy decisions, enforcement, and controls inside target systems.
  • Specified and validated an Agent Identity MVP through Microsoft Entra Agent ID, plus an MCP server MVP grounded in a concrete use case.
  • Delivered the requirements catalogue, recommendations, and roadmap for the implementation phase.

Tools used

  • One Identity
  • Entra Agent ID
  • MCP
  • dmGPT
  • Microsoft Office

2025

Enterprise AI ecosystem and distributed agent gateway

Jan 2025 – Mar 2026 · 15 months · Lead Engineer, DevOps & AI · Solution Architect

  • Held technical responsibility for a 13-person team, including seven engineers, across architecture decisions, prioritisation, and quality.
  • Designed and implemented a scalable serverless backend on AWS using infrastructure as code.
  • Built and operated microservices that process and orchestrate requests from internal AI applications.
  • Connected data and ML platforms across AWS, Azure, and GCP.
  • Designed a distributed agent gateway so teams across the organisation could integrate and communicate between agents.
Sebastian standing in front of the Mercedes-Benz star in Stuttgart

Tools used

  • AWS Lambda
  • API Gateway
  • DynamoDB
  • Terraform
  • React
  • Vertex AI

2023

Serverless backend for a generative AI mobile app

Aug – Oct 2023 · 3 months · Co-Founder · Lead Engineer, DevOps & ML

  • Designed a fully serverless AWS backend for a consumer mobile application.
  • Implemented the complete infrastructure as code and integrated OpenAI alongside services outside AWS.
  • Prototyped LLM prompts and model behaviour, then built monitoring and alerting for production operation.

Tools used

  • AWS CDK
  • Lambda
  • DynamoDB
  • Python
  • EventBridge
  • SNS

2022

A reusable, end-to-end MLOps platform on AWS

Aug 2022 – Aug 2024 · 24 months · Founder & CEO · Lead Engineer, MLOps & Cloud

  • Founded and led a startup focused on making ML productionisation repeatable and faster.
  • Compared and prototyped cloud-native deployment architectures before implementing a scalable serverless platform on AWS.
  • Created a reusable repository template, a dedicated Python package, and automations for new projects.
  • Built the full operating stack: CI/CD for code and models, staging environments, package and artefact management, monitoring, and alerting.
  • Produced a practical online course for teams adopting q·ops and AWS-based MLOps.

Tools used

  • AWS CDK
  • AWS Batch
  • Lambda
  • Metaflow
  • CloudWatch
  • Python

Architecture for an IoT platform covering more than 3M containers

Apr 2022 · 1 month · Senior Data Scientist · Project Lead

  • Structured user stories and business use cases across several operational domains.
  • Defined platform capabilities and evaluation criteria for potential IoT solutions.
  • Interviewed stakeholders and engineering teams to surface the limits of existing and planned IoT projects.
  • Compared make, buy, and hybrid options across on-premise, vendor, and cloud platform approaches.
  • Developed AWS and GCP architecture concepts, prioritised the work, and produced an implementation-ready roadmap.

Tools used

  • AWS
  • GCP
  • IoT
  • draw.io
  • Miro
  • Microsoft Office

Maturity assessment and target design for an AWS AI platform

Jan – Mar 2022 · 3 months · Senior Data Scientist

  • Derived platform capabilities from the existing AI portfolio and prior delivery experience.
  • Assessed current platform and deployment solutions against a detailed maturity model.
  • Identified the technical and organisational barriers preventing teams from productionising AI reliably.
  • Designed staged AWS architectures for lightweight and full-scale model serving, updating, and retraining.
  • Converted the assessment into tooling recommendations, priorities, and a practical development roadmap.

Tools used

  • AWS
  • draw.io
  • Microsoft Office

2021

Predictive maintenance for early wheel-damage detection

Oct 2021 – Jan 2022 · 4 months · Senior Data Scientist

  • Joined high-frequency pressure-sensor time series with damage labels from SAP.
  • Cleaned and validated measurement and label data, then engineered features for a Random Forest baseline.
  • Reduced dimensional complexity by roughly 64% with an autoencoder.
  • Developed a robust rolling RANSAC method for earlier wheel-damage prediction with stronger outlier resistance.
  • Prepared the codebase and documentation for continued work by the project team.

Tools used

  • Python
  • PyTorch
  • scikit-learn
  • AWS

A model-serving blueprint for standardised ML deployments

May – Aug 2021 · 4 months · Senior Data Scientist · Team Lead

  • Researched recurring MLOps effort and requirements with teams across the organisation.
  • Designed a standard AI platform using open-source components and AWS-native services.
  • Evaluated model-serving and automated retraining approaches, then iterated an AWS resource blueprint for future deployments.
  • Validated permissions, service boundaries, and security decisions with the cloud engineering team.
  • Delivered detailed technical documentation and stakeholder-ready architecture decisions.

Tools used

  • SageMaker
  • S3
  • Lambda
  • Airflow
  • DVC
  • Python

Human-in-the-loop document extraction web application

Mar 2021 · 1 month · Senior Data Scientist

  • Defined the functional requirements for named-entity extraction from documents.
  • Designed a human-in-the-loop workflow to improve extraction quality iteratively.
  • Built a Dash wrapper that integrated into a React frontend and connected the application to the backend through an API.

Tools used

  • Python
  • Dash
  • FastAPI
  • OpenAPI

Product and architecture design for AI-assisted drug discovery

Jan – Feb 2021 · 2 months · Senior Data Scientist

  • Led structured interviews and workshops with chemists, stakeholders, and prospective users.
  • Translated scientific and user requirements into user stories and journeys.
  • Reviewed market solutions and reference applications to shape the UX direction.
  • Created the application mock-up with UX and UI designers, then defined the high-level technical architecture with DevOps specialists.
  • Produced the request for proposal for the implementation phase.

Tools used

  • Figma
  • Microsoft Office

2020

Training-data reconstruction risk in drug-discovery models

Oct – Dec 2020 · 3 months · Data Scientist

  • Assessed the risk of reconstructing sensitive training data from drug-discovery models.
  • Mapped membership inference, model extraction, model inversion, property inference, and molecular reconstruction attacks to the customer context.
  • Ran selected high-relevance attacks using public bioactive molecule databases.
  • Built a Python library for repeatable model-security assessment.
  • Recommended and implemented technical safeguards in the customer software.

Tools used

  • Python
  • Pandas
  • scikit-learn
  • KVM

BERT email classification for dispute capturing

May – Jul 2020 · 3 months · Data Scientist

WirtschaftsWoche Best of Consulting 2020 · 2nd place, Technology
  • Extended the production AWS architecture established in the preceding email-automation project.
  • Improved the data pipeline and fine-tuned a BERT model to production quality.
  • Implemented stateless, scalable containers for preprocessing and inference.
  • Added abstraction and adapter layers to reduce AWS-specific coupling.
  • Reviewed the full cloud integration and supported end-to-end testing and production launch.
Sebastian holding the WirtschaftsWoche Best of Consulting 2020 award

Tools used

  • BERT
  • ECS
  • Lambda
  • DynamoDB
  • CodeBuild
  • Python

Production NLP classification for container bookings

Jan – Mar 2020 · 3 months · Data Scientist · Product Owner

  • Designed the scalable AWS architecture for production email classification.
  • Led the engineering team, owning technical planning, prioritisation, and delivery.
  • Brought the preprocessing pipeline and Random Forest model to production quality.
  • Implemented stateless containers for preprocessing and inference, then integrated the surrounding AWS services.
  • Presented the work to the customer and later at the PyData and NLP Meetup Hamburg.

Tools used

  • Random Forest
  • ECS
  • Lambda
  • API Gateway
  • S3
  • Python

2019

Six NLP prototypes, each delivered in two to three weeks

Jul – Sep 2019 · 3 months · Data Scientist

  • Analysed and prioritised six NLP use cases with business teams and subject-matter experts.
  • Integrated and harmonised heterogeneous datasets from six parts of the organisation.
  • Built complete prototype loops from preprocessing and feature engineering through model training and evaluation.
  • Selected model approaches against each business objective and target variable.
  • Delivered management-ready results on a two-to-three-week cadence per prototype.

Tools used

  • SageMaker
  • Python
  • Pandas
  • scikit-learn
  • Jupyter

Anomaly detection in rail-infrastructure sensor data

Apr – May 2019 · 2 months · Data Scientist

  • Prepared, converted, and analysed high-frequency infrastructure sensor data.
  • Developed an unsupervised anomaly-detection proof of concept.
  • Identified potentially critical events and created visualisations for engineering interpretation and decision support.

Tools used

  • Python
  • Pandas
  • scikit-learn
  • Jupyter

Topic clustering and business-relevance detection

Feb – Mar 2019 · 2 months · Data Scientist

  • Prepared and analysed unstructured text from email and Jira tickets.
  • Developed topic-clustering methods to organise large text corpora.
  • Classified and filtered email by business relevance.
  • Used exploratory analysis to turn text patterns into business cases and decision support.

Tools used

  • Python
  • scikit-learn
  • Jupyter

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