Simon Senkl-zieger
Co-Founder at Aumio
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolSimon Senkl-zieger is a data-driven co-founder and product-minded engineer with 11 years of experience building early-stage startups from Berlin to Silicon Valley. As Co-Founder of Aumio he combines evidence-based digital therapy, original audio content and product-led growth to support the mental health and sleep of over 500,000 families. Previously he led data science and engineering at Startup Genome, scaling automated global analyses and rolling out collaborative data platforms to empower research at scale. A passionate backend developer, Simon contributes to prominent open-source conversational AI projects like Rasa, improving core dialogue management and SDK capabilities. He blends research-grade rigor (MSc in Engineering/Industrial Management) with hands-on systems work—from web scraping pipelines to production ML—and a surprising early background spanning psychology, UX and even automotive test programming. Practical, curious and impact-focused, he turns idle data into actionable products that improve wellbeing.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, San DiegoMaster of Science (M.Sc.) Engineering/Industrial Management, Master of Science (M.Sc.) Engineering/Industrial Management at Technische Universität BerlinPsychology and Business, Psychology and Business at University of Graz
German, English, Italian
Github Skills (13)
unit-testing10
git-repository10
nlp10
sdk10
rasa10
github-repos10
python10
forms10
conversational-ai10
chatbot10
pytest9
unit-test9
machine-learning7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
RasaHQ/rasa
Oct 2018 - Jan 2019
💬 Open source machine learning framework to automate text- and voice-based conversations: NLU, dialogue management, connect to Slack, Facebook, and more - Create chatbots and voice assistants
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:34 commits, 1 comment, 9 issues in 3 months
Contributions summary:Simon primarily contributed to the Rasa Core framework, fixing bugs and improving the functionality of several core components. Their work included resolving issues in policy configurations, debugging channel interactions, and enhancing the format of bot output. They also added tests for improved code reliability and incorporated changes to improve overall code quality and adherence to style guidelines. The user demonstrated a focus on improving the core dialogue management and conversational AI aspects of the project.
nlupythonbotspeech-recognitionbotkit
RasaHQ/rasa-sdk
Jan 2019 - Feb 2019
SDK for the development of custom actions for Rasa
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 3 PRs, 10 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Simon focused on extending the Rasa SDK for custom action development. Their contributions include adding features to the `Tracker` class to include the latest input channel, enabling the use of `from_trigger_intent` slot mappings within forms, and implementing validation logic for form actions. The user also added tests and debug logs, and addressed PEP issues. These modifications enhance the functionality and usability of the Rasa SDK.
custom-actionspythonrasasdk
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