Richard Bergmair
Search Engineer - Back End at Utopia Refraktor
Kupferzell, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolRichard Bergmair is a search and back-end engineer with a Ph.D. in NLP from the University of Cambridge and more than a decade of hands-on experience building search, data and ML systems at companies including DuckDuckGo, Goldman Sachs, IBM and Telefónica. He blends academic rigor with product-focused engineering, having moved from quantitative trading and research roles into production search and AI systems, and most recently applies LLMs in real projects after studying them through MIT’s ML & AI professional certificate. Richard has deep expertise in Elasticsearch and large-scale search stacks, and a track record of shipping search features and ML models into production across startups and established tech firms. Based in Germany, he also runs independent data science work through Utopia Refraktor, demonstrating both consultancy breadth and sustained individual contributor momentum. An unusual mix of roles—from focus puller on film sets to steering committee member for an Austrian funding agency—illustrates his practical versatility and comfort operating at technical, operational and strategic levels.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D. Computer Science and Technology, Ph.D. Computer Science and Technology at University of CambridgeB.Sc. Computer Studies, B.Sc. Computer Studies at University of Derby in Austriahigh school Data Processing and Organization, high school Data Processing and Organization at HTBLA LeondingCasual Lecturer Machine Learning for Natural Language Processing, Casual Lecturer Machine Learning for Natural Language Processing at University of Malta
English, German
Github Skills (42)
duckduckgo10
python10
factory10
converter10
css10
dms10
pdf10
weasyprint10
html10
documents10
perl9
distro9
django8
api8
macros8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
rbergmair/recruitment_challenge
Sep 2015 - Apr 2023
Contributions:28 pushes in 7 years 8 months
recruitment
rbergmair/themuserb
Feb 2017 - Apr 2023
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch, 1 issue in 6 years 3 months
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