Summary
Irina Gossmann is a Senior Solutions Architect and Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building cloud-native, ML-driven analytics and automation for enterprise SaaS. She blends hands-on engineering (backend, ETL, NLP) with customer-facing solution design, having moved prototypes into production across startups and complex enterprises like Palantir, re:infer, and UiPath. Comfortable in small, purpose-driven teams, she routinely stretches beyond conventional roles to tackle infrastructure, product, and data challenges. Her background spans privacy-focused systems, large-scale ETL, and text mining—grounded in a computational linguistics and computer science education from Heidelberg. Based in the UK, she brings a practical pragmatism: balancing ideal open-data designs with real-world business constraints to deliver usable, scalable systems. She also pursues sustainable materials and manufacturing interests, signaling an appetite to apply technical skill to environmentally meaningful domains.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
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Bachelor’s Degree Computational Linguistics Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computational Linguistics Computer Science at Heidelberg University
KUINEP certificate Japanese and Interdisciplinary Studies, KUINEP certificate Japanese and Interdisciplinary Studies at Kyoto University
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English, German, Russian, Japanese