Stefan Bunk
Founder CTO at Merantix
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolStefan Bunk is a founder and CTO with 15 years of experience building AI-driven systems, currently leading Vara to deploy deep learning–based breast cancer screening programs in underserved regions. He combines hands-on machine learning and engineering expertise from early-stage roles at Merantix—where he helped build core ML infrastructure for vision and NLP—and research experience implementing distributed algorithms at the Hasso Plattner Institute. Comfortable across the stack, he has applied Python, TensorFlow, GCP, Apache Beam and Scala/Java to move models from research into production and clinical studies. His work emphasizes epidemiological rigor, data-driven monitoring and culturally sensitive integration to ensure technology meets real-world clinical needs. Based in Berlin, Stefan blends startup leadership with academic rigor, having authored peer-reviewed research on NLP-driven process analysis. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic technologist who focuses on measurable impact rather than cutting-edge novelty for its own sake.
15 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
High School Abitur, High School Abitur at Gymnasium BrandisMaster’s Degree IT-Systems Engineering, Master’s Degree IT-Systems Engineering at Hasso Plattner Institute
German, English
Github Skills (96)
cython10
maglev10
text-classification10
masters10
stat10
planning10
turkish10
gemstone9
sql9
least-squares9
ai9
data-preprocessing9
neural9
nlp-machine-learning9
corenlp9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
knub/skypyblue
May 2014 - Aug 2014
Contributions:91 commits in 3 months
knub/onehundredandtwenty
Dec 2013 - Oct 2016
Course Planning System for HPI masters
Contributions:40 commits, 18 PRs, 22 pushes in 2 years 10 months
pythonmasterscourse-planningplanninghpi
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