About
Researcher, software engineer, musician
From 2011 to 2016 I studied computer science and mathematics, focusing on computer vision and machine learning. I joined DeepMind in 2017, then left in 2023 to join the founding team of xAI (now SpaceXAI), where I scaled the London office to 40+ engineers and built the production infrastructure behind Grok. I left in March 2026 to work on music. My first single, “Love Is Wise,” is out October 30.
Experience
Part of the founding team, working on the AI production stack.
Tech lead of a major research project (17 engineers), co-lead of a cross-organisational engineering team, and people manager for 4 engineers.
Large-scale distributed reinforcement learning, tech lead on various research projects, research on distributional RL.
AlphaStar: research on imitation learning and engineering of large-scale evaluation infrastructure; tech lead on research projects.
Ape-X DQfD; research on imitation learning.
- SCHUFA Holding AG, Data Scientist, WiesbadenOct 2016 – Mar 2017
- Microsoft, Software engineering intern, OsloAug – Oct 2015
- Computer Vision Group, RWTH Aachen, Student research assistantOct 2014 – Mar 2016
- wfp:2 GmbH & Co. KG, Web developerFeb 2011 – Sep 2013
- WFMG GmbH, Web developerMar 2006 – Jun 2015
Education
Thesis: “Semi-Supervised Deep Learning for Semantic Image Segmentation”
Thesis: “Semantic Segmentation of Cabinets using Attribute Graph Grammars”
Grades in the German system, where 1.0 is the highest.
Honours & awards
- Capital — Top 40 unter 402024
- Springorum Denkmünze2016
- Deutschlandstipendium2015 – 2016
- Dean’s List2014, 2016
- Schöneborn Preis2014