Felix Altenberger is an MLOps and deep learning engineer with nine years of experience building production-ready ML systems and developer tooling from research prototypes to SaaS. As an early engineer at ZenML he helped transform an open-source CLI into a client-server product, contributing over 250K lines of code and features like stack import/export that improved portability for real-world pipelines. Previously he shipped scalable, real-time size-recommendation models at Presize (acquired by Meta) and has deep academic roots as a TUM PhD student and deep learning instructor focused on 3D body reconstruction. Equally at home in research and engineering, he combines strong ML theory with pragmatic backend and CLI work, and contributes notable fixes and tests across the popular ZenML project. Based in Bavaria, he’s also building real-time avatar technology on GitHub, blending 3D research insights with production MLOps.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
UPC School (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya)
Master of Science - MS, Data Engineering and Analytics, 1.2 (GPA 3.8) - top 5% / high distinction, Master of Science - MS, Data Engineering and Analytics, 1.2 (GPA 3.8) - top 5% / high distinction at Technical University of Munich
ZenML 🙏: The bridge between ML and Ops. https://zenml.io.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & MLOps Engineer
Contributions:12 releases, 1351 reviews, 422 commits in 9 months
Contributions summary:Felix primarily contributed to improving error messages and refactoring code related to pipeline argument verification within the ZenML codebase. They added unit tests to cover missing bracket pipeline creation scenarios, ensuring the robustness of the pipeline initialization process. Furthermore, the user implemented `zenml stack export` and `zenml stack import` commands, along with their respective CLI functionality, enhancing stack management capabilities and enabling easier sharing and migration of ZenML configurations. The user also addressed error messages for missing return type annotations for `@step` functions.
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