Summary
Alexander Schoenenwald is a Forward Deployed Engineer with 8+ years of experience helping organizations adopt and embed cutting-edge AI models into production. He combines hands-on software engineering, data engineering, and LLM-driven solutions from roles at Palantir and as a freelance Applied AI practitioner to deliver RAG, evaluation systems, and agentic tooling. As co-founder of Futuro Farming he built hardware, ML models, and software that scaled to 300+ farms across 20+ countries, showing an ability to take AI from prototype to fielded product. His background includes research on data lineage at BMW and early work in security and web-application hardening, giving him a practical focus on observability, compliance and secure ML deployment. Now based in the Greater Munich area and currently at Black Forest Labs, he blends startup grit with enterprise experience to accelerate AI adoption in real-world workflows. Notably, he explores open-source starter kits for agentic code generation—bridging developer ergonomics and automated code editing.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Informatik, Master of Science - MS, Informatik at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Master of Science - MS, Informatik, Master of Science - MS, Informatik at OTH Regensburg
Spanish, French, English, German