Work Experience

Career

CTO & Co-Founder
Gopf AG
February 2023 – Present · Lucerne, Switzerland
  • Lead the engineering team building an AI-powered competitive intelligence platform for B2B clients
  • Responsible for full technical architecture and development of the SaaS product
  • Oversee scalable cloud infrastructure, NLP pipelines, and Agentic AI models
  • Bridge the gap between academic research and production-ready machine learning
  • Led the product from concept to launch, including infrastructure management and technology strategy
Lecturer for Artificial Intelligence & Deputy Head of Digital Business Lab
Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts (HSLU)
April 2025 – Present · Rotkreuz, Switzerland
  • Lecture on Deep Learning in the Master's program (3 ECTS)
  • Contribute to strategic direction of the Digital Business Lab
  • Lead applied research projects with industry partners from idea through deployment
  • Secure funding and write grant proposals for research initiatives
  • Active public communication: representing HSLU on AI/Data Science topics in press, radio, and TV
Postdoctoral Researcher
University of St. Gallen (HSG) — Institut für Marketing und Consumer Insight
March 2025 – August 2025 · 40%
  • Designed and implemented a novel framework to transform unstructured video data into structured representations using multimodal (visual + audio) embeddings
  • Validated the framework through a field experiment demonstrating strong predictive power for social media engagement
  • Finalized and submitted a scientific publication introducing the multimodal video analysis framework
Senior Research Associate in Artificial Intelligence
Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts (HSLU)
January 2023 – March 2025 · Rotkreuz, Switzerland
  • Independently led multi-year applied R&D projects with industry partners (up to 3 years), including planning, execution, and controlling
  • Designed, implemented, and validated custom ML algorithms and data analysis solutions
  • Acquired new research projects including grant proposals with research and industry partners
  • Published and presented research findings at national and international conferences
Data Scientist
Jaywalker Digital AG
March 2020 – August 2023 · Lucerne, Switzerland
  • Deep exploratory analysis of complex customer data for a youth marketing agency
  • Developed NLP-based competitor text analysis tools
  • Built recommender systems from prototype to production
  • Created interactive data visualizations and Streamlit dashboards
Research Associate in Artificial Intelligence
Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts (HSLU)
March 2021 – December 2022 · Rotkreuz, Switzerland
  • Data scientist and engineer for ML solutions for industry partners
  • Developed NLP and computer vision systems at the Algorithmic Business Research Lab
Research Assistant in Artificial Intelligence
Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts (HSLU)
September 2018 – February 2021 · Rotkreuz, Switzerland
  • Data scientist and engineer for ML solutions
  • Teaching assistant for machine learning modules
Full-Stack Software Engineer
Network 41 AG
August 2015 – August 2018 · Sursee, Switzerland
  • Developed one of the company's first AI applications: automated image quality inspection using TensorFlow
  • Designed and built the company's Intranet/Extranet with ASP.NET C# and JavaScript
  • Developed business applications and complex T-SQL stored procedures
Software Engineer
Pilatus Aircraft Ltd
August 2014 – January 2015 · Stans, Switzerland
  • Developed and maintained the Pilatus customer portal (ASP.NET)
  • Integrated enterprise systems (SAP, JIRA, Teamcenter) via REST APIs
  • Configured Jenkins and Octopus CI/CD pipelines
Apprenticeship in Computer Science (Software Development)
Pilatus Aircraft Ltd
August 2010 – August 2014 · Stans, Switzerland
  • Specialization in Software Development
  • Grade: 5.7/6 — Awarded Apprenticeship Graduation (top grade)

Education

PhD in Algorithmic Marketing / Business Administration
University of Lucerne
January 2021 – February 2025 · Summa Cum Laude
  • Dissertation: Unlocking Consumer Insights: Multimodal Approaches to Unstructured Data Analysis
  • Advisor: Prof. Reto Hofstetter
Master of Science in Engineering (MSc) — Data Science
Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts (HSLU)
2018 – 2021 · Thesis grade: 6/6
  • Specialization: Machine Learning for NLP and Computer Vision
  • Thesis: Learning Video Embeddings for Similarity Computation
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science (BSc)
Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts (HSLU)
2015 – 2018 · Thesis grade: 6/6 · Dean's List 2018
  • Thesis: Deep Neural Fridge Analyzer