Juri Wiens
AI Research Engineer at REWE digital
Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Top SchoolJuri Wiens is an AI Research Engineer based in Cologne with 11 years of hands-on experience building production ML systems, recommender engines, and scalable web services. At REWE digital he moved from software and ML engineering into research-facing roles, developing session-based GPT-like recommenders, training German language models from scratch, and deploying real-time LSTM detectors for web robot detection. He combines strong Node.js and web technology expertise with practical MLOps, Kafka streaming, and API gateway experience, enabling research models to run reliably in production. Earlier roles span VoIP, Google Cloud integrations, and custom CRM and virtualization projects, reflecting a pragmatic full-stack background. Curious and self-driven, he continuously explores functional and reactive programming paradigms and often bridges cutting-edge research with concrete business impact.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science at Bonn-Rhein-Sieg University of Applied SciencesBachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Wirtschaftsinformatik, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Wirtschaftsinformatik at FOM University of Applied Sciences for Economics and Management
German, English, Russian
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Github Skills (86)
python10
authentication10
correlation10
deep-learning10
gpu10
overhead10
akamai10
nbdev10
fastify10
client-library10
fastai10
api10
google10
nodejs10
js-client10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
micro-tools/fastify-service-skeleton
Dec 2019 - Aug 2022
Create fastify based microservices even faster.
Contributions:26 releases, 1 review, 203 commits in 2 years 9 months
fastify-pluginmicroservicesfastifyfaster
juriwiens/kafkaesk
Feb 2020 - Jun 2020
High-level TypeScript Kafka consumer and producer based on node-rdkafka (WiP)
Contributions:5 releases, 62 commits, 1 PR in 4 months
kafka-consumerwiphigh-levelproducernodejs
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