Manuel P.

About Me

Manuel is a builder, entrepreneur, and AI Consultant that makes AI work for you. Throughout his career, he has held positions such as AI Solution Architect at CANCOM Austria, AI Consultant at Kapsch TrafficCom AG, Founder at Pallas, Tech Lead & Data Engineer at Motius and CARIAD, and AI Architect at Brantner. He has also worked as a Senior Machine Learning Engineer at MOSTLY.AI, Data Scientist at Craftworks GmbH, Scientific Software Engineer at Vienna Biocenter Core Facilities, and Embedded System Engineer at Adaptivia GmbH. His educational background includes degrees in Artificial Intelligence and Parallel and Distributed Computing.

AI, ML & LLM

Backend

Other

Work history

CANCOM Austria
CANCOM Austria
AI Solution Architect
2024 - 2025 (1 year)
Vienna, Austria
  • Designed and developed an extendable Python-based agent platform and supported various RAG workflows and tool use scenarios.

  • Developed customer-specific data processing pipelines and used Azure AI Search for efficient information storage and retrieval.

  • Implemented customer-specific platform modifications and mentored junior developers.

PythonAzure AI Search Azure OpenAI LLM Data pipelinesLarge Language Models (LLMs)
Kapsch TrafficCom AG
Kapsch TrafficCom AG
AI Consultant
2024 - 2024
Vienna, Austria
  • Identified business processes that can benefit from cutting-edge AI technologies like LLMs.

  • Analyzed the potential of LLMs in existing business processes.

  • Evaluated technical feasibility and estimated effort for implementing prototypes, identifying innovative use cases for LLMs.

LLMs AI
Pasieka AI Solutions GmbH
Pasieka AI Solutions GmbH
CEO
2024 - Present (1 year)
Vienna, Austria
  • Providing strategic AI consultancy and tailored AI software solutions.

  • Working on AI product and prototype development.

AI AI Programming
Pallas
Pallas
Founder
2023 - 2024 (1 year)
Vienna, Austria
  • Developed a scalable RAG system for knowledge management.

  • Implemented scalable containerized microservice architecture and integrated multiple knowledge bases.

  • Enabled efficient use of open-source LLMs for question answering.

PythonDockerKubernetesVector Databases Qdrant Open Telemetry Jaeger CeleryRedisPostgreSQLLLM Model quantization VLLM TGI Embedding Retrieval-augmented Generation (RAG) Microservice Architecture Large Language Models (LLMs) Machine LearningMicrosoft AzureNatural Language Processing (NLP) Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Terraform
mySugr
mySugr
AI Consultant
2023 - 2023
Vienna, Austria
  • Developed customer use cases of LLMs (i.e., GPT) for internal process automation.

  • Trained staff on fundamental concepts of Large Language Models.

  • Worked on a feasibility study and PoC design.

LLM GPT Artificial IntelligenceProcess Automation Large Language Models (LLMs) Proof of Concept (POC)
Brantner Green Solutions
Brantner Green Solutions
AI Architect
2022 - 2022
Vienna, Austria
  • Developed a concept and prototype to extend a Machine Learning training pipeline.

  • Tracked model retraining with MLFlow.

  • Visualized and compared models based on their model performance.

MLFlow Machine LearningAI Model Training
Motius
Motius
Tech Lead & Data Engineer
2022 - 2025 (3 years)
Remote
  • Built a spare part observability platform for Siemens customers.

  • Developed a cloud-focused system architecture to enable deployment on AWS spot instances.

  • Rearchitected the data processing back end and extending data models.

CARIAD
CARIAD
Data Engineer
2022 - 2023 (1 year)
Remote
  • Developed an analytics platform using voice analysis to understand customer interests and demands.

  • Developed and maintained a voice analytics pipeline running on AWS.

  • Built a Tableau-based dashboard for business analysts.

MOSTLY AI
MOSTLY AI
Senior Machine Learning Engineer
2020 - 2022 (2 years)
Vienna, Austria
  • Developed new encoding types and improved existing ones for synthetic data generation.

  • Built internal tooling for reproducible model training.

  • Provided technical guidance and resolved issues for customer PoCs.

  • Developed new algorithms and implemented new scalable ML systems.

  • Supported customers to make use of synthetic data in order to unlock data vaults and accelerate model development.

Machine LearningAI Model Training Proof of Concept (POC) Machine Learning Algorithms AWSInfrastructure as Code (IaC)
Craftworks GmbH
Craftworks GmbH
Data Scientist
2020 - 2020
Vienna, Austria

Worked on solution-focused development of data science projects for customers from various industries.

Vienna BioCenter Core Facilities (VBCF)
Vienna BioCenter Core Facilities (VBCF)
Scientific Software Engineer
2013 - 2019 (6 years)
Vienna, Austria
  • Developed data analysis applications for neuroscience researchers.

  • Developed hardware control software for behavior experiments.

  • Created network analysis tools for structural and behavioral neural measurements.

Data AnalysisResearch Network Analysis

Education

Security+ ce Certification (Expires Jul 2028)
Security+ ce Certification (Expires Jul 2028)
CompTIA
2025 - 2025
Google Cybersecurity
Google Cybersecurity
Coursera
2025 - 2025
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (Expired Aug 2025)
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (Expired Aug 2025)
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
2022 - 2022
Master of Artificial Intelligence
Master of Artificial Intelligence
Universidad Internacional de La Rioja (UNIR) - Spain
2018 - 2019 (1 year)
MSc Parallel and Distributed Computing
MSc Parallel and Distributed Computing
Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV) - Spain
2010 - 2012 (2 years)
BSc Computer Science & Technical Physics
BSc Computer Science & Technical Physics
Technical University of Vienna - Austria
2005 - 2009 (4 years)