Michael Menzel
Senior Staff Machine Learning Specialist, Customer Engineering at AI Business School
Mannheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
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Top SchoolMichael Menzel is a Senior Staff Machine Learning Specialist with 13+ years of hands-on experience bridging cloud infrastructure, big data, and machine learning at companies including Google and AWS. He combines a research pedigree—PhD-level work in cloud computing and international research visits—with practical leadership as a founder and long-term customer engineering specialist. Michael advises and implements scalable ML solutions, recently exploring radiance fields, multi-modal inputs for diffusion models, and in-context imitation learning for LMMs/LLMs. He teaches as a guest lecturer and is the author of a technical book, signaling a commitment to knowledge transfer as well as delivery. Based in Mannheim, Germany, he’s equally comfortable translating complex research into production systems and mentoring customers through cloud and ML adoption. A not-obvious strength: he pairs deep measurement-driven cloud expertise with active curiosity about frontier generative-model architectures.
13 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Cloud computing Cloud migration, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Cloud computing Cloud migration at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)UNSW SydneyMittlere Reife Mathematics and Computer Science, Mittlere Reife Mathematics and Computer Science at Carl-Friedrich-Gauss Gymnasium HockenheimDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Cloud Computing Compute Clouds Measurement Comparison, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Cloud Computing Compute Clouds Measurement Comparison at Technische Universität BerlinDipl. Wirtsch.-Inf. bussines informatics information systems computer science informatics logistics, Dipl. Wirtsch.-Inf. bussines informatics information systems computer science informatics logistics at University of MannheimAbitur / German secondary school diploma / university admission Business Mathematics Business Informatics, Abitur / German secondary school diploma / university admission Business Mathematics Business Informatics at Carl-Theodor-Schule Schwetzingen
English, Spanish, French, German
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Github Skills (82)
visual-studio10
editor10
electron10
typescript10
vscode-extension10
vscode10
visual-studio-code10
microsoft10
deploying9
openui58
javascript8
aws-lambda8
webgl8
sap-cap7
azure-functions7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
mugglmenzel/aotearoaLib
Nov 2012 - Jun 2014
Contributions:1 release, 15 commits, 1 tag in 1 year 6 months
mugglmenzel/presto
Oct 2016 - Nov 2017
Contributions:6 releases, 4 PRs, 18 pushes in 1 year
connectorprestodynamodbaws
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