Richard Deetlefs
CTO & Co-Founder at HeadwAI GmbH
Vienna, Austria
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Top SchoolRichard Deetlefs is a CTO and co-founder with eight years of experience translating advanced machine learning research into deployable products, currently leading HeadwAI GmbH from Vienna. He has a strong academic foundation—MEng and BEng(Hons) with distinction from the University of Pretoria—and focused postgraduate research on applying AI, deep learning and computer vision to condition monitoring of mechanical systems. At Sensonic he progressed from data scientist to Chief AI Officer, owning AI strategy, product life cycles and cross-disciplinary teams to deliver rail asset condition monitoring solutions using distributed fibre sensing. Known for blending hands-on modeling of anomaly detection and remaining useful life with product leadership, he bridges research rigor and commercial impact. Notably, his background as a mechanical engineer turned ML specialist gives him an unusual ability to marry physical-system intuition with scalable AI engineering.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
University of Pretoria
English
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Github contributions (4)
RichardDeetlefs/research
Apr 2018 - Apr 2018
Contributions:22 commits, 14 pushes, 3 branches in 6 days
RichardDeetlefs/TrainMyNet
Mar 2018 - May 2018
Contributions:1 PR, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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