Hi, I’m Timo.
I’m a Senior Data Science Consultant at Erste Group in Vienna, where I design AI platforms and deliver GenAI solutions across Central Europe.
Before that, I worked with Accenture on data engineering, and with Siemens on machine learning and data analytics. I hold a B.Sc. in Information Systems and have an (almost complete) M.Sc. in Computer Science from FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg.
Experience (Highlights)
Senior Data Science Consultant — Erste Group, Vienna (since 09/2023)
- Built an AI platform on Azure & Databricks serving 7,000 daily users across five countries
- Delivered eight GenAI use cases including RAG chatbots and few-shot classification
- Improved message routing accuracy from 40% → 95%
- Leading the group-wide Agent DevOps working group (MCP, agent-to-agent communication)
Data Science Analyst — Accenture, Vienna (03/2022 – 08/2023)
- Built data lake business layers with Azure Synapse, PySpark, and Databricks
- 2nd place at an international GenAI hackathon (300 participants)
ML Engineer — Siemens Healthineers, Erlangen (02/2021 – 02/2022)
- Contributed to a ML framework for predictive maintenance
Education
- M.Sc. Computer Science — FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg (105/120 ECTS, on hold)
- B.Sc. Information Systems — Nuremberg Institute of Technology
- Exchange semester — City University of Hong Kong
Certifications
- Databricks Generative AI Engineer Associate (2024)
- Azure Solution Architect (2023)
- The Power MBA (2021)
Interests
Bouldering, cycling, running, cooking, and reading — both fiction and non-fiction. When I’m not at a keyboard, I’m usually on a trail, a wall, or a bike somewhere in the Alps.