Alexander Fecke is a VP Technology with 14 years of experience building and shipping AI-driven products across startups and large enterprises, currently leading technology at Neptune Software. He combines hands-on ML research (word embeddings, multiplicative composition) with product leadership, having founded two companies and led NLP teams to deliver production systems like damage classification, publication retrieval, and contract review tools. His approach emphasizes speed, data-centric engineering, and user-centric augmentation—rapid prototyping, programmatic/synthetic labeling, and iterative human-in-the-loop design to turn uncertain ML projects into reliable data assets. Comfortable both as an individual contributor and as a manager, he has scaled teams and processes while navigating product discovery, UX testing, and deployment. Based in Berlin, he brings academic rigour from a Humboldt-Universität MS in Informatics together with practical lessons from failed and successful ventures, including deep experience in few‑shot learning and event-streaming architectures. Not obvious at first glance, he repeatedly opts to augment users rather than fully automate, prioritizing real-world adoption over theoretical performance gains.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Informatik, Master of Science - MS, Informatik at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Bachelor of Science - BS, Cognitive Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Cognitive Science at Universität Osnabrück
Semester abroad, Semester abroad at Boğaziçi University
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