Summary
Thomas Ritter is an AI-focused machine learning engineer and executive business assistant with 11 years of experience, currently supporting SAP’s CTO & Chief AI Officer from Berlin. He combines hands-on expertise in computer vision and NLP—delivering edge-deployed Vision Transformer solutions and RAG/PEFT-based document summarization—with a knack for translating technical work into business value for clients. At Kineo he led practical projects that overcame limited labels and inference constraints, and he has contributed to open-source road-safety efforts such as the SimRa cyclist-safety project. Equally comfortable in research-adjacent development and client-facing communication, he bridges strategy and execution across enterprise ML initiatives. Unusually for someone in an assistant role, he keeps active hands-on development credentials, previously serving as a Data Scientist at SAP and an AI developer contributor in the community.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Wirtschaftsinformatik und Digitale Transformation, Master of Science - MS, Wirtschaftsinformatik und Digitale Transformation at Universität Potsdam
Master of Science - MS, Data Science & Engineering / Information Systems Management, Master of Science - MS, Data Science & Engineering / Information Systems Management at Technische Universität Berlin
Bachelor of Science - BS, Wirtschaftsinformatik, Bachelor of Science - BS, Wirtschaftsinformatik at Universität des Saarlandes
English, German