Benjamin Pohl

About Me

“Every challenge fuels the journey towards innovation and excellence.”

Accomplished Lead Machine Learning Engineer with over 7 years of experience in architecting and managing analytical platforms across Azure, GCP, and AWS, with a primary focus on Azure. Specializing in designing and deploying scalable machine learning models, I excel in leveraging advanced analytics to drive business insights and decision-making. Passionate about generative AI and staying ahead of emerging technologies, I am dedicated to creating innovative solutions that align with privacy and responsible AI development. My expertise ensures that projects are cutting-edge and future-proofed for long-term success.

Experience

Mercedes-Benz AG (2023-Present) - Stuttgart, Germany

Lead Machine Learning Engineer, Research & Development

  • Directing the development of innovative LLM solutions to enhance data interaction and code access. Lead Developer for a holistic vehicle data analytics project, optimizing workflows and steering a substantial cost-saving analysis.
  • Enhanced Collaboration: Launched Talk2Repo, facilitating seamless communication between developers and inner source repositories at Mercedes. Utilized llamaindex, RAG Agent, Milvus, a Streamlit frontend and continue.dev plugin to provide developers with easy access to sample code and resources, significantly enhancing productivity and collaboration.
  • Innovation: Founded Data.Insight.Chat, a pioneering multi-agent framework (AutoGen) that enables intuitive data interaction via chat-like interfaces. Leveraged a React frontend, allowing for dynamic SQL queries, responses, and visualizations, transforming data exploration.
  • Vehicle Data Analytics: Led a team of 8 developers with a budget of €1.2 million to develop a holistic vehicle data analytics platform. Managed the codebase, pull requests, and release cycles, ensuring project milestones were met on time.
  • Cost Savings: Conducted a performance allocation analysis using Databricks, achieving annual savings of €500,000 through advanced analytical techniques and cost-efficiency improvements.

EnBW Energie Baden-Württemberg (2020-2023) - Stuttgart & Cologne, Germany

Machine Learning Platform Architect (MLOps) & Epic Owner

  • Founded and managed the analytical machine learning platform, overseeing daily operations, continuous advancements, and stakeholder engagement.
  • Initiated and managed the development of an Azure-based analytical machine learning stack, pivotal in enabling projects generating €250 million+ in annual revenue.
  • Oversaw end-to-end provisioning of the analytical platform for data scientists, including data pipelines and batch/API deployments.
  • Implemented robust CI/CD and Git workflows, automating testing and deployment to ensure superior quality in machine learning development.
  • Led discussions on MLOps best practices, mentored new developers and data scientists, and managed the MLOps portfolio across the company.

EY (Ernst & Young) (2017-2020) - Stuttgart, Germany

Data Science Consultant

EY (Ernst & Young) (2014-2017) - Stuttgart, Germany

Part-time Consultant | Dual Course of Study (B.A)

Education

Queen Mary University of London (2018-2019)

MSc. in Big Data Science (Distinction, 1.0)

  • Thesis: Content based music recommendation. Implementation using novel two stage unsupervised and supervised approach to circumvent the cold start problem.
  • Core Modules: Big Data Processing, Machine Learning, Data Mining, Machine Learning for Visual Data Analytics, Deep Learning and Computer Vision, Data Analytics and Cloud Computing.

Corporate State University Stuttgart (2014-2017)

B.A. in Accounting, Taxation and Commercial Law (2.2)

  • Thesis: Implementation of a smart contract transfer pricing model based on distributed ledger system (blockchain) for an international company.

Certificates & Awards

Scholarship

  • One year data professional development scholarship (EUR 20,000).

Certificates

  • DeepLearning AI MLOps specialization
  • Hasso Plattner Institute 5-day design thinking specialization

Awards

  • AWS DeepRacer Pro League Competitor
  • Second place at the TDWI Data Science challenge (hosted by TDWI & Deloitte)

Languages

  • German (M. T.)
  • English (Fluent)
  • Chinese (Beginner)

Programming Languages

  • Python ❤️
  • SQL
  • Scala
  • HTML
  • CSS
  • JS
  • LaTeX

Cloud Services, Packages & Frameworks

  • Hyperscaler (Azure, AWS, GCP) ❤️
  • Databricks
  • Spark
  • Git
  • Scikit-Learn
  • PyTorch
  • Pandas
  • FastAPI
  • Streamlit
  • Docker
  • Llamaindex
  • Hugging Face Transformers
  • LobeChat
  • Ollama