Summary
Stefan Maetschke is a seasoned AI/ML engineer and data scientist with 15+ years delivering production-grade, scalable AI and ETL pipelines across industries including automation, healthcare, and retail analytics. He has held roles at Google, IBM, and Siemens, and currently leads freelance AI/ML work while founding Makerguides.com to empower makers with microcontroller and TinyML tutorials. Stefan specializes in multimodal data and end-to-end AI deployments—from data prep with GPU-accelerated libraries (nuts-ml) to real-time insights and model serving, with notable achievements such as a generative AI system for audio ads that helped secure $25M in Series B funding and high-volume POS data pipelines for major retailers. He is also a proactive open-source contributor and educator, building production-ready tools and sharing technical knowledge through accessible content. Based in Partenstein, Bavaria, he brings deep research background (PhD in Bioinformatics/CS from The University of Queensland) to practical, impact-driven solutions, blending academia with hands-on delivery. Stefan excels at turning complex data challenges into high-value outcomes and is eager to tackle new AI and data challenges with a pragmatic, results-focused mindset.
9 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Bioinformatics, Computer Science, Computational Biology, PhD, Bioinformatics, Computer Science, Computational Biology at The University of Queensland
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at University of Applied Science
German, English