Cornelius Carstens
Creative Coder - Backend & Pipeline
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolCornelius Carstens is a creative coder and backend engineer based in Berlin with nine years of experience building full-stack web systems, developer tooling, and experimental interaction prototypes. He blends design-led research with engineering rigor—most notably creating and prototyping a voice-based autonomous assistant, Ava, using Python plus Prolog/AgentSpeak for multi-agent reasoning. As Lead Engineer at FIELD.io and formerly leading digital transformation at BVB.net, he pairs TDD, CI/CD and Laravel/Vue stacks with data-driven product work that has saved operational hours and increased revenue. Comfortable across abstraction and implementation, he applies design patterns and structured experiments to make human behaviour legible to machines. Outside of work he composes piano-improv and electronic music, a creative thread that informs his approach to embodied and conversational interfaces.
8 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Visual Communication, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Visual Communication at HTW Berlin
Github Skills (157)
pyttsx10
laravel9
csv9
aws9
oauth9
columns9
vpn8
text-to-speech8
synthesis8
wireguard8
terraform8
bounding8
speech8
speech-to-text8
php8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
ccarstens/portfolio
Jun 2018 - Jun 2021
Contributions:13 PRs, 25 pushes, 15 branches in 3 years
ccarstens/Ava
Sep 2019 - Jan 2020
Ava is an autonomous virtual assistant
Contributions:2 releases, 84 commits, 6 PRs in 4 months
avaautonomousassistantmachine-learningvirtual-assistant
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