Software engineer leading an internal AI accelerator team at Erste Digital, and building market-data and quant-research systems in my own time.
AI / forward-deployed engineeringAgentic modernization of legacy banking code, with automated quality gates and human review
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At Erste Digital I lead an internal AI accelerator team. Our pipeline turns legacy Natural/Adabas code into as-is documentation, generated Java/OSB connectors and review-ready pull requests, gated by static analysis, generated tests, code-vs-documentation checks and mandatory human review. It has delivered 5 use cases and 10+ connectors and cut typical cycle time by over 80%. In my own time I have built LLM systems: contract matching across about 255k prediction markets and local-model agents on a Raspberry Pi.
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An AI pipeline that turns legacy Natural/Adabas banking code into as-is docs and review-ready Java/OSB integration code: 5 use cases, 10+ connectors delivered.
Natural / Adabas · Java · Oracle Service Bus · GitHub Copilot CLI
An LLM contract-matching pipeline over ≈ 255k Kalshi and Polymarket markets, feeding a fee-aware arbitrage scanner. Built solo, with 529 automated tests.
Python 3.12 · Polars · scikit-learn · sentence-transformers
Production crypto market-data platform, co-developed in a team of two: I implemented 19 of its 33 Rust exchange integrations and the shared normalization layer.
Rust · NATS · Go · ClickHouse
A counted search of 1,871 trials, pre-registered in a hash-chained ledger from 12 Oct. The one surviving market-neutral book scored Sharpe 3.45 on the 2026 holdout (backtest, after costs), and my own adversarial review then downgraded it: the paper reports the result and the downgrade.
Rust · Redis Streams · Python, on one Raspberry Pi 5
A fail-closed gate between LLM extraction and the build refuses missing items, dangling edges, cycles and broken LaTeX; the live demo maps all 18 results of my BSc thesis.
JavaScript · Python · MathJax · LaTeX
Agent output is grounded and fail-closed: the scout may pick only numbered candidates, and nothing reaches Notion unless validation passes.
n8n · Ollama · Qdrant · SearXNG
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Erste Group’s technology subsidiary · Vienna, Austria
Software Engineer
Intern, Mainframe (Natural) Developer
Vienna, Austria
Senior Associate, Workshop Leader and Recruiter
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| Year | Degree |
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| 2027expected autumn | MSc Mathematics (in progress)University of Vienna · Mar 2026 – expected autumn 2027Research direction: martingale optimal transport and model calibration (Bass-type). |
| 2026 | BSc MathematicsUniversity of Vienna · Oct 2023 – Jun 2026Thesis (within the Bachelor seminar): “Quantum Neural Networks: Theory and Application for Financial Time Series Forecasting”, supervised by Priv.-Doz. Dr. Lukas Exl.Thesis code and results |
| Year | Award |
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| 2026 | IMC Prosperity 4: team reached Phase 2Team entry in IMC's Prosperity 4 algorithmic-trading competition (Apr 2026); Phase 2 required at least 200,000 XIRECs over rounds 1–2. I built fair-value models and quoting logic and iterated round-1 hidden-run PnL about 2.6x across 8 versions (1,817 to 4,789 XIRECs in competition test runs). |
| 2023 | Jugend forscht 2023: Saxony-Anhalt state final 2nd prize and Carl Zeiss “Sonderpreis Digitalisierung” |
| 2018–2021 | 10 olympiad prizes in mathematics and physics, 6 of them first prizes |
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Open to roles in
Vienna, Austria · authorized to work in Austria · open to EU relocation
Full-time roles from autumn 2027; internships and part-time roles before then