Summary
Aline Castendiek is a Senior Software Developer and computational linguist based in Berlin with a decade of experience building NLP and ML-driven applications. She specializes in natural language generation, question-answering systems, and backend Python engineering, with hands-on work in RAG, neural search, and transformer-based models. Aline has shipped production AI features for enterprise voice assistants and news-generation pipelines, combining model training, evaluation, and scalable API integration. Her background teaching programming and working on sentiment analysis and POS-tagging gives her strong grounding in both theory and practical tooling across Java, Python, Elasticsearch and TensorFlow/Keras. She stays close to research advances while focusing on turning state-of-the-art models into reliable, user-facing systems.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - Computational Linguistics Natural Language Processing, Bachelor of Science - Computational Linguistics Natural Language Processing at University of Potsdam
German, English