Niko Schenk
Lead Agent Architect at Parloa
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolNiko Schenk is a computational linguist and product-minded engineering leader with 12 years of experience building and scaling voice assistants for automotive and consumer platforms. He has a strong track record at NIO and Amazon, delivering 50+ navigation/charging features and 200+ cross-domain improvements while launching multilingual NLU end-to-end for English, German and Norwegian. Pragmatic and data-driven, he traces problems from production user traffic to improved ASR/NLU/Dialog metrics and business KPIs, and pioneered synthetic data pipelines that reduced manual effort by 85%. His work blends deep research (PhD, summa cum laude) with hands-on LLM prompt engineering and embedded system deployment, and he’s mentored and recruited 25+ linguists across Europe and China. Based in Berlin, Niko combines academic rigor with product delivery—often surfacing subtle UX issues from real-world in-car logs that others miss.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, summa cum laude (excellent), Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, summa cum laude (excellent) at Goethe UniversityMaster's degree, Computational Linguistics, 1,0 (A), Master's degree, Computational Linguistics, 1,0 (A) at Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
Github Skills (48)
transformers10
pytorch10
language-model10
python10
machine-learning10
deep-learning10
tensorflow10
natural-language-processing10
bert10
transformer10
speech-recognition10
nlp10
jax10
seq2seq9
flax9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Nikoschenk/travis
Mar 2018 - Apr 2021
Contributions:11 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 1 month
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