Summary
Hermann Burgmeier is a seasoned backend engineer with 13+ years building large-scale, production systems across Amazon, Mercedes-Benz R&D, SAP and startups, now focused on backend engineering at Luminary.ai in Seattle. He specializes in software architecture, distributed search and data platforms (ElasticSearch, SOLR, Lucene, Hadoop, MapReduce) and has repeatedly led green-field MLOps and low-latency inference services for recommendation and robotics products. At Amazon he moved from ML inferencing and Search NLP to robotics perception and synthetic data tooling for SageMaker, often owning end-to-end design, CI/CD, and security posture improvements. Known for bridging research and production, he has a deep JVM and polyglot background (Java, C#, Ruby, ABAP) and experience with graph/RDF/SPARQL and cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GAE). A pragmatic architect and prototyper, he routinely converts experimental POCs into scalable services presented to senior leaders.
13 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Diplom, Computer Science, Diplom, Computer Science at Universität Passau
English, German