DENIS BAUER

CTO & CPO | Seed Investor | Startup Mentor

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Berlin, Germany

About me

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8+ years of top-level management experience in high-growth startup companies, defining overall company vision and strategy and interfacing with other C-Levels, management team and investors

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20+ years of experience designing and building large-scale software engineering projects covering the whole lifecycle from ideation and requirements engineering through design and development to operations and maintenance

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Managing diverse development teams locally, nearshore in Romania and offshore in India using agile methodologies and processes with up to 40 people

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Deep technical expertise in modern cloud architectures, developed on different platforms with .NET, Java or Python using a broad range of frameworks, using different cloud services

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Managing different internal & external stakeholders as well as IT vendor relationships

Showcases and Key Achievements

BUILDING A RECOMMENDER SYSTEM FOR JOBS

JUN 2021 - AUG 2023

Building a two-tower recommender system that is integrated into a full information retrieval pipeline. Inspired by the architecture of YouTube, we extended our existing full-text search infrastructure with a recommendation engine that re-ranks search results based on a deep neural network. It uses several hundred datapoints of the current job seeker to find correlations to other job seeker’s preferences in order to find the perfect job for that particular user.

Lead a cross-functional product team of data engineers, machine learning engineers and data scientists through the implementation phases with rapid prototyping
A/B testing the new recommendation engine against the plain-vanilla search infrastructure finding an uplift of 20% in conversion rate

Python, PyTorch, Keras, MLFlow, BERT/USE embeddings, ElasticSearch

INVENTION OF A CONVER-SATIONAL UI FOR JOB SEEKERS

JUN 2019 - JAN 2023

Invention, design and implementation of JobCoach, a conversation UI that enables natural language conversations with job seekers. The user input is transformed into structured data thus creating a 360° profile of the preferences, experiences and personality of the job seeker. This user profile is used to find the perfect matching job and revolutionizes the way, people find jobs.

Invention, design and user testing of the first concepts of JobCoach together with a Product Designer, Product Manager and Lead Developer
Lead a development team through the implementation phases with rapid prototyping
Guide the commercial launch of JobCoach including securing a trademark and marketing initiatives

Java 17, Spring Boot, Dropwizard, Kubernetes, Google Cloud Platform, OpenAI GPT-3.5/4.0, Python

DEVELOPMENT OF A CONSUMER HOME AUTOMATION SOLUTION

NOV 2009 - MAR 2012

Development of RWE Smarthome, a consumer-oriented home automation platform based on Microsoft technology. The platform was built around an embedded device that allows radio control of thermostats, power switches etc. The platform can be used through the web browser or mobile devices from home or remote.

Architect for all client components (Silverlight and Mobile frontends, ASP.NET website)
Lead developer on a development team of 10+ members across three different partner companies
Interface between customer, local and nearshore development team, design agency and testing teams
Stabilization Lead managing bug triaging, quality metrics and reporting for shipping the first version of the product
Definition of the development process (based on SCRUM) and implementation in TFS

Java 17, Spring Boot, Dropwizard, Kubernetes, Google Cloud Platform, OpenAI GPT-3.5/4.0, Python

My Startup Investments

As a pre-seed investor, I support early-stage startups with my technical expertise, network and funding. Here is a selection of the startups I am working with: