About Me
Hi, I'm Léon 👋
Mainz — where it started
Born and raised in Mainz, I first studied Economics — I wanted to understand how the systems around us work. That urge was never just academic: with Greenpeace I joined the protests for climate protection and served as the local group's contact person for biodiversity. Two semesters in, it was clear that what actually pulled me in were the tools behind the systems: the models, the data, the code. So I switched tracks.
Berlin — learning by building
At HTW Berlin I studied Computational Science and Engineering — half computer science, half classic engineering. When the pandemic moved everything online, I kept building anyway: a self-built vacuum robot, a voice-controlled model factory, and my first job as a web developer in the university's executive office, helping introduce a new campus management system.
Fraunhofer — two years of shipping
In my fifth semester I joined Fraunhofer IPK as a working student and stayed for over two years: full-stack work on the 'Process Assistant' (MERN), the integration of a RAG chatbot, and a caching layer that cut backend runtime by 60–70%. My bachelor thesis became the first prototype of the EU Digital Product Passport for traction batteries — demonstrated end-to-end with a Lego value chain.
Humboldt — deeper into AI
After the bachelor's it was clear where this was going: a master's in Computer Science at Humboldt University, focused on NLP. That's when the reading-papers-at-2-a.m. phase started — not for a grade, just to understand how these models actually work.
Barcelona — the Erasmus semester
A semester at UPC in Barcelona: Advanced NLP, multi-agent system design, machine learning — and a city that makes it easy to think about something other than transformers once in a while.
Vienna — today
My master's thesis brought me to the AI-Taskforce at the AIT Austrian Institute of Technology in Vienna. I build production AI systems there — among them an enterprise RAG chatbot selected for company-wide rollout — and research continual learning in enterprise LLMs. The full record lives on the homepage; the demos are one click away.
