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Senior Applied AI Solution Engineer | Enterprise AI | Technical Leadership

Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Germany +1
info: Germany, United Kingdom
PhD in Information Technology
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Germany +1
info: Germany, United Kingdom
PhD in Information Technology

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About me

Helping organisations build and operate machine learning an AI systems that are measurable, maintainable, and ready for production — with specialisation in search, ranking, and recommendation.

RAGJavaScriptApplication Programming Interfaces (APIs)Agile MethodologyApplication Integration ArchitectureSystems EngineeringAudio Signal ProcessingC++ (Programming Language)Mobile Application DevelopmentCloud EngineeringInformation RetrievalPython (Programming Language)Machine LearningNatural Language ProcessingAWS CLITensorFlowSolution ArchitectureSQL DatabasesEnterprise Application IntegrationTest-Driven Development (TDD)PyTorchLarge Language ModelsPrompt EngineeringGenerative AIBackendFastAPICloudflareMachine Learning OperationsApi DesignRestful ApiApi ManagementDockerProgramming Languages
AI & LLM Integration
Expertise in LLM integration using OpenAI, Anthropic, and Gemini APIs, including agentic AI workflows, MCP server development, RAG pipelines, prompt engineering, and fine-tuning for enterprise production environments.

Python & TypeScript Backend Development
Hands-on experience building scalable Python and TypeScript microservices for real-time inference, data pipelines, REST APIs, and distributed systems deployed on cloud infrastructure.

Cloud & DevOps Engineering
Proficiency with AWS, GCP, Cloudflare, Docker, CI/CD pipelines, GitHub Actions, and observability tooling for deploying and operating production AI systems at scale.

Machine Learning & ML Engineering
Deep background in ML/AI engineering including TensorFlow, PyTorch, LangChain, multimodal retrieval systems, audio embeddings, and production-grade model deployment.

Microservices & Distributed Architecture
Design and implementation of microservices architectures, REST APIs, distributed systems, scalable data pipelines, and plugin ecosystems for enterprise and scale-up clients.

Natural Language Processing & Speech Technology
Research and engineering background in automatic speech recognition, text-to-speech synthesis, voice signal processing, and NLP-based matching platforms, with six patents in related fields.

Frontend Frameworks
Experience with React and Next.js for building frontend interfaces as part of full-stack AI solution delivery.

Programming Languages
Proficiency in Python, TypeScript, JavaScript, C/C++, SQL, and Bash for a wide range of backend, data, and systems engineering tasks.

Audio & Music AI Systems
Development of production music identification, similarity search, semantic annotation, audio deduplication, and multimodal retrieval systems serving millions of tracks.

Experience

Professional experience10+ years
Freelancer since2011

Languages

GermanFluentEnglishFluentFrenchBasic knowledgeRussianBasic knowledge

Project history

Founder & Principal AI Consultant

mect IT Consulting Ltd (mect.co.uk)
Applied AI consultancy designing and deploying production AI solutions for enterprise and scale-up clients across the UK and Europe. Focus areas include LLM integration, agentic AI, music intelligence, and search and recommendation systems. Designed and delivered end-to-end AI solutions, implemented MCP servers and agentic workflows, advised on RAG architecture and responsible AI deployment, and delivered technical workshops to upskill client engineering teams.

Head of Research and Development

ProTunes Europe (Remote)
Led R&D for ProTunes One, a production music platform for social media creators. Drove architectural vision across AI, backend services, and data infrastructure. Built agentic AI pipelines including prompt-based music generation and multimodal retrieval systems. Architected scalable Python and TypeScript microservices for real-time inference, automated tagging, and multi-modal search. Defined engineering best practices and mentored engineers within an Agile framework.

Co-Founder & CTO

Fitvoice C.I.C.
Led all technical architecture and engineering delivery for an AI-powered mobile health startup, including backend AI services, REST APIs, and mobile frontend in Ionic. Designed and shipped a real-time voice analysis inference system balancing model accuracy with mobile performance constraints. Patent holder: GB2621812A.

Senior R&D Engineer

proTunes (Remote)
Designed multi-modal AI search and recommendation services using scalable Python microservices with robust data pipelines for ingestion, processing, and quality control. Built audio identification and deduplication services using large-scale similarity search with strong emphasis on reliability and observability.

Co-Founder & CTO

The Voice Distillery Ltd
Architected and delivered an AI-powered matching platform using NLP, audio feature extraction, and a Python backend with PHP frontend, enabling voice talent ranking at scale for media clients. Owned the full engineering lifecycle from prototype to production including system design, implementation, testing, deployment, and monitoring.

Senior AI/ML Engineer

mufin GmbH
Developed production-grade music identification, similarity search, and semantic annotation systems serving millions of tracks across a decade. Bridged research prototypes and production software by establishing engineering practices for scale, reliability, and maintainability.

Research Assistant & Doctoral Researcher

Technische Universitat Dresden
Doctoral research in automatic speech recognition and text-to-speech synthesis. Six patents in voice signal processing, speech synthesis, and audio classification.

Certificates

Deep Learning Specialization

Coursera

2020

Neural Networks and Deep Learning

Coursera

2019

Pattern-Oriented Software Architectures

Coursera

2013

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