Summary
Sebastian Werner is a Director of Data & AI Solutions with 12+ years of experience turning industrial R&D and process engineering challenges into scalable, revenue-generating AI products and services. He has led large European Data & AI teams at Thoughtworks, delivering over €20M in bookings and architecting solutions across manufacturing, chemicals and energy with end-to-end responsibility from pre-sales to P&L. A chemical engineer by training with a Berkeley post-doc background, he uniquely blends deep domain expertise in time-series industrial AI, IT/OT integration and cloud platforms with hands-on product and MLOps execution. He founded and scaled an Industrial AI SaaS company to seven-figure revenue and led its tech stack and fundraising, so he speaks both technical architecture and commercial language fluently. Known for bridging high-level strategy and "gory details," he focuses on operational rigor to ensure cross-functional programs hit timelines, budgets and sustainable impact. Based in Bavaria, he advises deep-tech startups and brings an uncommon mix of catalyst science, large-scale data engineering and delivery excellence to industrial digital transformation.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Post-Doc, Chemical Engineering, Post-Doc, Chemical Engineering at University of California, Berkeley
Dr.-Ing., Chemical Engineering, Dr.-Ing., Chemical Engineering at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
Exchange student, Chemical Engineering, Exchange student, Chemical Engineering at Nanyang Technological University Singapore
English, German