Summary
Stefan Maetschke is an AI/ML engineer and data scientist with over a decade of experience building production-grade AI, machine learning, and high-volume ETL systems at companies like Google, IBM, Qsic and Siemens. He designs scalable multimodal solutions—spanning video, audio, image, POS and text—that have driven measurable business impact, including a generative-AI audio ads system that helped secure $25M in Series B funding and win major retail clients. Equally comfortable in research and production, Stefan has delivered medical imaging and bioscience models with strong clinical metrics and engineered Databricks pipelines processing gigabytes of daily POS data. He is the author and maintainer of nuts-ml and founder of Makerguides.com, reflecting a commitment to accessible technical education and efficient GPU-based preprocessing for small-data deep learning. Based in Bavaria, he now focuses on freelance AI engagements that translate complex data challenges into high-value, deployable products.
9 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Bioinformatics, Computer Science, Computational Biology, PhD, Bioinformatics, Computer Science, Computational Biology at The University of Queensland
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at University of Applied Science
German, English