Nicolas Spring
Business Analyst at Kanton Zürich
Zürich Metropolitan Area Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolNicolas Spring is a Business Analyst in the Zürich area with 8 years of experience bridging computational linguistics research and production software engineering. He has moved from academic work on German text simplification and sentence alignment to hands-on NLP engineering and team leadership at TextShuttle, where he built and automated quality monitoring for AI translation models and hired a new engineering team. Now a product owner at Kanton Zürich SEBE Digital, he combines product stewardship with pragmatic engineering instincts—Python, Docker microservices, and API-driven systems—to translate research-grade models into operational services. His background in military financial logistics and tutoring reveals a disciplined, methodical approach and an ability to communicate complex language-tech topics to diverse stakeholders.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA Computational Linguistics & Language Technology, Bachelor of Arts - BA Computational Linguistics & Language Technology at University of Zurich
English, French, German, German
Github Skills (6)
artificial-intelligence8
sequence-to-sequence8
pytorch8
python8
ai7
testing2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ZurichNLP/simplewiki-data-acquisition
Jan 2020 - Jun 2022
Contributions:4 reviews, 4 PRs, 48 pushes in 2 years 5 months
nicolasspring/sinaasappel
Nov 2024 - Nov 2024
Workflows playground
Contributions:15 releases, 91 PRs, 116 pushes in 26 days
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