Sebastian Lehrig
WW AI On IBM Power Leader
Paderborn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolSebastian Lehrig is a WW AI on IBM Power leader with 11 years of experience turning research-grade ideas into production AI platforms and market-ready offerings. He combines deep technical roots in scalable cloud and AI systems—evidenced by a summa cum laude doctorate and publications—with hands-on product leadership driving roadmap, go-to-market, and cross-functional execution across IBM Research, SW, and Consulting. Past roles include building Kubeflow on IBM Power, cutting AI system memory footprints by over 50%, and pioneering validation and lambda-architecture migrations, showing both systems-level rigor and pragmatic optimization. He frequently bridges academia and industry, authoring a Springer book and integrating ethics and psychology into data science enablement. Based in Paderborn, Germany, he actively leverages and contributes to open source to accelerate adoption of AI on specialized infrastructure.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at Paderborn UniversityDr. rer. nat., Computer Software Engineering, summa cum laude, Dr. rer. nat., Computer Software Engineering, summa cum laude at University of Stuttgart
German, English
Github Skills (175)
notebook10
python10
databases10
kubeflow10
kedro10
mlops10
speech10
sql-query10
ml10
sql10
pipeline10
kubeflow-pipelines10
database10
kubernetes10
jupyter10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
lehrig/kubeflow-ppc64le-manifests
Jan 2022 - Jan 2023
A repository for Kustomize manifests for Kubeflow on ppc64le
Contributions:6 releases, 1 review, 82 commits in 1 year
ppc64lekubeflowkuberneteskustomizemanifests
lehrig/kubeflow-ppc64le-components
Oct 2021 - Mar 2023
Reusable Kubeflow components for ppc64le
Contributions:2 reviews, 84 commits, 5 PRs in 1 year 5 months
kubeflowppc64lekubernetesreusable
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