Fabian Aponte
Senior AI Software Engineer at BMW Group
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
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Top SchoolFabian Aponte is a Senior AI Software Engineer with nine years of experience building and deploying NLP, Transformer and LLM-driven systems into production, currently leading BMW’s Large Industry Models initiative and agentic architectures for in-car personalization. He combines deep R&D roots—an MSc in AI & Robotics (Cum Laude) and a patented multimodal driver-monitoring master’s project—with hands-on MLOps expertise in AWS to take models from research to scalable products. Fabian balances corporate leadership with freelance AI consulting and co-founding an EdTech startup, LingoToons, applying agentic and LLM technologies to make language learning interactive. He’s fluent in multimodal fusion, recommendation engines, evaluation loops across LLM providers, and building knowledge graphs, reflecting a pragmatic focus on accuracy, cost-efficiency, and lifecycle management. Based in Munich, he brings a multidisciplinary background from mechatronics to entrepreneurship and a track record of turning innovative prototypes into production-ready services.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Summer School in Automation and Simulation Mechanical Engineering, Summer School in Automation and Simulation Mechanical Engineering at RWTH Aachen UniversityTechnischen Universität DarmstadtMSc. Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Engineering, MSc. Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Engineering at Sapienza Università di RomaGründung eines eigenen Startups Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies, Gründung eines eigenen Startups Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies at Hochschule München University of Applied SciencesBSc. Mechatronics Engineer Engineering, BSc. Mechatronics Engineer Engineering at Universidad Nacional de Colombia
English, Spanish, German, Italian
Github Skills (24)
spatial7
gis6
openstreetmap6
benchmark6
wps6
system-information5
shapefile5
data-management5
gdal5
qgis5
geotools5
tms4
ogc4
wcs4
wms4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Contributions:30 commits, 29 pushes in 21 days
fedesoft231/bogotrash
Nov 2018 - Feb 2022
Contributions:3 PRs in 3 years 4 months
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