Anja Kleebaum is an Agile Software Engineer with 12 years of experience who holds a PhD in Software Engineering from Universität Heidelberg and a strong interdisciplinary background in geoecology and applied informatics. Her academic research produced lightweight decision- and rationale-management methods for agile development, which she now applies in industry to build self-hosted, locally running LLM-based chatbots with RAG-enhanced retrieval, source attribution, and user feedback loops. At andrena objects she leads efforts to evaluate and optimize chatbot answer quality and performance systematically, blending rigorous evaluation from academia with pragmatic engineering practices. Based in Mannheim, she combines teaching and research experience with hands-on deployment of privacy-preserving AI systems—an uncommon mix that makes her adept at turning formal methods into usable, auditable developer tools.
13 years of coding experience
Promotion, Dr. rer. nat., Software Engineering, Promotion, Dr. rer. nat., Software Engineering at Universität Heidelberg
Master of Science, Geoökologie - Umweltphysik, Master of Science, Geoökologie - Umweltphysik at Universität Bayreuth
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