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Anthony A.

Senior Software & AI Engineer | LLM, RAG, AI Agent

€695/day
Heidelberg, DE
3-7 years

Average response time: 1 hour

About Anthony

I'm a Senior Software & AI Engineer, specialising in privacy-preserving LLM deployments and regulatory AI — the area where most enterprise GenAI projects in Germany either succeed or quietly fail.
Over 8+ years I've shipped production systems at Nokia (distributed microservices, 4 years), built a RAG privacy platform for enterprise clients handling sensitive data, led technical research for the European Banking supervisory AI framework — the most stringent financial-regulatory environment in Europe — and currently architect a self-hosted LLM evaluation platform for Heidelberg University with 100% data sovereignty.
Where I add the most value
— Self-hosted / sovereign LLM deployments. Local inference with Ollama and vLLM. Llama, Mistral, and GPT-class models running on your hardware, your VPC, your governance. Zero data leaves your perimeter.
— RAG systems for regulated industries. Document ingestion, chunking, embedding, vector retrieval, LLM evaluation agents, structured output. Production architecture from day one — not a notebook demo. PII masking and sovereign data handling built in.
— GDPR-compliant GenAI. Context-injection pipelines designed for compliance-sensitive workflows in banking, government, HR, and healthcare.
— Full-stack delivery. FastAPI backends, React dashboards, PostgreSQL, Docker, Kubernetes. I ship the whole feature, not just the model.

How I work
Bias toward shipping testable increments over long demos. Strong written communication — architecture documents non-technical stakeholders can actually read. Remote-first across DACH and EU, onsite possible.
Engagement shapes
— De-risking sprint (1–2 weeks): scope and prototype a GenAI feature before you commit headcount.
— Feature build (1–3 months): RAG system, AI assistant, document evaluation pipeline, internal copilot. Architected for production.
— Fractional AI engineer (3+ months): embedded with your team to add GenAI capabilities to an existing product without breaking what works.
  • English

    Native or bilingual

  • German

    Fluent

  • French

    Basic

Can work on-site
Heidelberg (up to 50km)

Experience

  • Heidelberg University
    AI Research Engineer
    October 2024 - Today (1 year and 8 months)
    Heidelberg, Germany
    • ● Privacy-First Admissions Platform: Architecting a full-stack web platform for processing
    university applications using self-hosted, open-source LLMs. Engineered a custom evaluation pipeline that ensures 100% data sovereignty and GDPR compliance by performing all inference on university-governed hardware.
    • ● Medical AI Research: Investigating the application of Fractal Interpolation to enhance medical imaging datasets. Developing novel methods to improve model generalization and feature extraction in sparse data environments (MRI/CT), aiming to increase diagnostic accuracy in automated medical screenings.
    • ● Full-Stack Engineering: Utilizing FastAPI/Node.js and React to build high-performance interfaces for complex research data, bridging the gap between raw ML research and user-centric academic tools.
  • appliedAI GmbH,
    AI Engineer
    May 2024 - October 2024 (5 months)
    Heilbronn, Germany
    • ● European Bank Supervision AI: Led technical research for deploying high-assurance AI models within the European Bank supervision framework, adhering to the highest regulatory standards for financial security.
    • ● RAG Privacy Solution: Developed a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) platform focused on LLM privacy. Implemented advanced PII masking and sovereign data handling to allow enterprise clients to utilize LLMs without exposing sensitive internal data.
    • ● Enterprise AI Strategy: Designed modular retrieval pipelines using vector databases to optimize context injection, significantly reducing hallucination rates.
    LLM Python RAG GDPR
  • Nokia Solutions and Networks
    Software Engineer
    October 2020 - July 2024 (3 years and 9 months)
    Ulm, Germany
    • ● Engineered microservices for distributed systems, developing APIs that aggregated disparate data sources to expose 80% of critical system metrics.
    • ● Developed high-performance caching layers that reduced execution time by 50% for large-scale operations.
    • ● Architected and managed large-scale databases (PostgreSQL/MongoDB) ensuring high availability and TDD compliance.

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Education

  • Master of Science
    Universität Heidelberg
    Data & Computer Science
  • Bachelor of Science
    Technische Hochschule Ulm
    2022
    Computer Science

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