James Audretsch
Staff Machine Learning Engineer at Phoebe
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Top SchoolJames Audretsch is a Staff Machine Learning Engineer based in Zurich with 10 years of experience building scalable, production-grade AI systems and backend services. He has led ML and infrastructure work across startups and major tech companies—founding an AI agent startup, improving LLM finetuning at Google Ads, and designing agentic architectures to autonomously resolve errors and alerts at Phoebe. His background spans end-to-end ML lifecycle work from research-grade deep learning for seismic detection to deploying GPU inference on Kubernetes and Knative, and he consistently bridges research and production. A pragmatist who loves Docker and Python, he pairs systems thinking with product instincts and a founder’s appetite for experimentation. Outside engineering he composes music and plays Ultimate Frisbee, reflecting a creative, team-oriented energy that surfaces in both collaboration and product design.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science (AI), Master of Science - MS Computer Science (AI) at KAUST (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology)BS Computer Science Artificial Intelligence, BS Computer Science Artificial Intelligence at Indiana University Bloomington
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Github Skills (33)
mongoose10
boilerplate10
celery9
django9
cookiecutter9
docker9
heroku9
python8
voting8
authentication8
project-template8
compose8
login-system8
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
jamesaud/MedicalWebsite
Aug 2016 - Jul 2019
Contributions:4 PRs, 372 pushes, 37 branches in 2 years 11 months
jamesaud/earthquake-detector-9000
Apr 2018 - Mar 2021
Contributions:15 commits, 57 pushes, 7 branches in 2 years 11 months
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