since

2021/10

Software Engineer
semabit GmbH, Spreitenbach, Schweiz

2019/08 –

2021/06

Senior Data Scientist, NLP

Balzano Informatik AG, Zürich, Switzerland

• Building a framework to identify and map relations between body parts and pathologies in German radiology reports

• Developing and maintaining a domain dependent ontology used for the identification

• Building a web app as an user interface for different parts of the framework

• Managing and working in a small team which develops a tool for passport picture verification

• Helping in developing different processes to improve work flows and quality standards

• Writing blog posts about various NLP topics

• Scrum Master for data scientist teams

Python (NLTK, spaCy), Ontology (Turtle), Azure, Git, Scrum

2018/10 –
2019/07

NLP Software Developer

Move Digital AG, Zürich, Switzerland

• Using and developing an ontology to identify topics in different types of documents
• Developing algorithms to show related information for various document types (Recommendation System)
• Developing intelligent search functionality for documents dependent on the types of keywords

Java (Stanford CoreNLP), Python, Ontology (OWL, RDF, Turtle), SPARQL, Elastic Search, MySQL, Postgres, REST API, Git, Scrum

2017/04 –
2018/10

Research Assistant, InIT Information Engineering

Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW)

• Developing an automated text analysis of messages about events 
  (fire, burglary, etc.)
• Researching and developing a natural language interface for databases
• Teaching Assistant for Database Moduls

Java (Stanford CoreNLP), Python (NLTK), JavaScript, SQL, MongoDB, RDF, SPARQL, Spark, Git

2016/10 –
2017/03

Software Engineer

Atfinity GmbH, Zürich, Switzerland

• Developing a customer specific CRM

Python, JavaScript (React), Elastic Search, Git, Scrum

2012/01 –
2016/10

Freelancer, Web Developer

Synventis GmbH, Basel, Switzerland

• Implementing webpages for desktop and mobile devices
• Responsible for customer support and liaison 

HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Git, SVN, Scrum

2015 – 2016

MSc. in Informatics

Multimodal and Cognitive Systems

Faculty of Economics, Business Administration and Information Technology

Thesis: "Visualization of Narrative Structures"

2012 – 2015

BSc. in Informatics 

Applied Informatics: Computational Linguistics

Faculty of Economics, Business Administration and Information Technology

Thesis: "Statistical Machine Translation of Technical Documentations"

2015/05 –

2015/10

Research Assistant, Software Developer

Department of Political Science

Project: "Measuring policy diffusion with automated content analysis: The case of smoking bans in Switzerland and the United States"

• Translating a topic modeling script from R Code into Java, 
  including individual adaptations of the script
• Supervising students working on the project

Java, R Code, Git

2014/11 –
2015/05

Student Assistant, Software Developer & Computational Linguist

Institute of Computational Linguistics - in collaboration with Finnova AG 

• Developing a machine translation system for technical documentations and implementing suggest improvements based on my bachelor’s thesis

Python (NLTK), C++, Moses SMT, Git

2013 – 2014

Tutor

Institute of Computational Linguistics

• Programming techniques in computational linguistics I (HS13)
• Programming techniques in computational linguistics II (FS13 & FS14)

Python (NLTK), Bash