Stefan Henß
Co-Founder at SMARTSEER GmbH
Frankfurt Rhine-Main Metropolitan Area Germany
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Top SchoolStefan Henß is a data-driven software engineer and co-founder with 15 years of experience bridging machine learning research and production systems, currently leading SMARTSEER GmbH from Frankfurt. He spent a decade as Chief Data Officer at bd4 travel, building distributed, real-time personalization and intent-prediction pipelines for online travel platforms. His background blends academic NLP and statistical language-model research with hands-on engineering—ranging from search-query parsing at HERE to essay-scoring and web-crawling projects. A high-achiever in predictive modeling, he ranked 5th out of 100,000+ Kaggle competitors in 2013, signaling both practical modeling skill and competitive problem-solving. Stefan pairs a Master's-level foundation from TU Darmstadt with a track record of shipping scalable algorithms that translate research insights into revenue-driving features. Beyond product work, he has repeatedly contributed to tooling and integration efforts that make advanced ML models workable in production environments.
15 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Science, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Science at Darmstadt University of Technology
English, German
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Github Skills (16)
recommender-system9
machine-learning8
python8
html6
data-mining6
full-text-search6
php6
javascript6
sql6
cluster-analysis6
weka6
mysql6
java6
api2
java-api2
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
ProfilingIO/insight-ml
Apr 2016 - Feb 2025
Java machine learning library
Contributions:13 releases, 4 PRs, 269 pushes in 8 years 11 months
javalibrary-learningmachine-learningmachine-learning-library
ProfilingIO/insight-ml-nlp
Jul 2017 - Oct 2017
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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