AI/ML Engineer

Mohammad Akbari Monfared

AI/ML Engineer with 4+ years shipping production AI — LLMs, RAG, and multi-agent systems.

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Work experience

  1. Lead AI Engineer · DCV Technologies GmbH

    Sep 2025 — Present

    Hamburg, DE

    • Led the full product lifecycle for two live AI products at DCV, owning design, implementation, delivery, and alignment with non-technical founders and business teams.
    • Built and shipped AIME (aimetalent.com), an agentic RAG product that cut a multi-day manual recruitment process to minutes by automating global sourcing and matching, now used daily by recruiters.
    • Engineered an agentic CV Matcher using RAG and deep semantic search, delivering high-precision candidate ranking and discovery across large databases.
    • Built an automated ETL pipeline that ingests CVs from a data lake, routes them by detected location, and uses LLMs to extract and structure profiles before loading them into vector and document databases (FAISS, MongoDB), triggered end-to-end without manual steps.
    • Designed and shipped a recruitment CRM with a team of two developers, covering the full lifecycle from client contact to commission payout by automating invoicing, margin calculation, and contract generation.
    • Owned cloud and deployment for both products on AWS, building CI/CD pipelines with Docker for automated testing and deployment to EC2 across staging and production, with data storage on S3, MongoDB, and RDS.
  2. Data Scientist (Part-time) · SMS Group GmbH

    Aug 2022 — Aug 2025

    Mönchengladbach, DE

    • Built and shipped an AI product for cold-rolling mills, taking it from idea to a system used in factories today, increasing production efficiency by 2%.
    • Designed an ETL pipeline processing high-frequency sensor data (10GB per 10-minute window), extracting compact, high-value summaries that resolved storage bottlenecks while preserving critical information.
    • Developed a custom statistical forecasting and anomaly-detection model as the core of the product, outperforming standard benchmarks by 30%.
    • Deployed end-to-end with integration into factory systems via gRPC and SQL, delivering real-time dashboards in Grafana that served predictions and monitored model performance and data drift.
    • Partnered with domain experts and senior management to translate operational challenges into the product roadmap and retraining logic that improved plant-level productivity.
  3. Student Researcher — Master's Thesis · CAISA Lab, B-IT

    Aug 2024 — Aug 2025

    Bonn, DE

    • Developed the first agentic framework for Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis (ABSA), using an LLM "Generator-Evaluator" (LLM-as-judge) workflow to produce label-consistent synthetic data; published at EACL 2026.
    • Closed the performance gap for lightweight models with self-reflection logic, yielding a 6% F1-score improvement over standard augmentation.
    • Designed a systematic evaluation framework across four SemEval benchmarks, proving agentic augmentation can match real-world data performance in low-resource scenarios.
    • Engineered the end-to-end Python pipeline studying task complexity and data ratios on downstream ML performance for data-scarce training strategies.
  4. Junior Software Developer · DCV Technologies

    Jun 2019 — Jun 2021

    Remote

    • Developed and maintained Python scripts automating internal data reporting workflows, saving the operations team several hours per week with repeatable pipelines.
    • Built and consumed RESTful API endpoints, working across request/response cycles, authentication flows, and backend service integration.
    • Queried and maintained SQL databases as part of feature delivery, developing strong proficiency in structured data systems and schema design.
    • Contributed to a shared codebase using Git, following code review processes and resolving merge conflicts independently.

Education

2021 — 2025

Master of Computer Science

University of Bonn

Bonn, Germany

2014 — 2019

Bachelor of Computer Science

Sharif University of Technology

Tehran, Iran

Selected work

All projects
View AI Portfolio Assistant — Production RAG + LLMOps project

AI Portfolio Assistant — Production RAG + LLMOps

A live RAG chatbot answering questions about my background, built as a complete LLMOps system with eval-gated CI/CD, experiment tracking, and live monitoring.

  • RAG
  • FAISS
  • BM25
  • FastAPI
  • MLflow
  • DagsHub
  • Supabase
  • GitHub Actions
  • AWS EC2
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View AIME — Agentic Recruitment Platform project

AIME — Agentic Recruitment Platform

End-to-end agentic RAG ecosystem that automates global candidate sourcing, standardization, and matching at scale.

  • LangChain
  • LangGraph
  • RAG
  • FAISS
  • AWS
  • MongoDB
  • FastAPI
  • Python
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View LLM Agentic Framework for ABSA project

LLM Agentic Framework for ABSA

First agentic framework for Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis using Generator-Evaluator LLM-as-judge workflow. Published at EACL 2026.

  • Python
  • Hugging Face
  • Ollama
  • ReAct Agents
  • Tool Calling
  • LLM Evaluation
  • Prompt Engineering
  • NLP
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View Industrial Time-Series Forecasting project

Industrial Time-Series Forecasting

End-to-end ML system for cold rolling mill optimization — from proof of concept to production deployment.

  • Python
  • ETL
  • Time-Series Forecasting
  • Anomaly Detection
  • PyTorch
  • TensorFlow
  • Scikit-learn
  • XGBoost
  • pandas
  • NumPy
  • gRPC
  • SQL
  • Grafana
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