Location: Germany
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Languages: English, German
Technologies: Python, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Search Engines, Machine Learning (ML), Finance, Law, Perl, Lua, Linux, LLM, RAG, scientific Py (numpy, scipy, pandas, matplotlib, scikit-learn), QGIS & geographical Py, nltk, vector search, elasticsearch, apache solr, lucene, quickwit tantivy, PostgreSQL, clickhouse, mongodb, redshift, AWS, Azure, docker, git
Résumé/CV: https://richard.bergmair.eu/en/projects/resume.pdf
Web: https://richard.bergmair.eu/
Email: richard.bergmair@urefpa25.onmicrosoft.com
Hours: CET (European), US East, Indian
Ph.D. in NLP from the University of Cambridge; recently: course on LLMs from MIT's AI & ML Certificate
13 years of freelancing in long-term remote gigs
~ 10 years of that was heavy on Data Science & ML (Goldman Sachs, Telefónica Germany, Flowminder Foundation, ...)
~ 7 years of that was heavy on Search Engines & NLP (DuckDuckGo, JUJU a.k.a. job-search-engine.com, ...)
some special interests: privacy & data protection (TÜV-certified), legal tech, law & compliance, finance, bookkeeping