Veith Röthlingshöfer
AI Lead at ama
Innsbruck, Tyrol, Austria
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Top SchoolVeith Röthlingshöfer is an AI Lead and founding-team engineer with a decade of experience building production-grade AI systems that bridge research breakthroughs and real-world products. He has deep hands-on expertise across agentic LLM systems, deep learning for perception, and full-stack delivery—owning everything from algorithm design and ML optimization to cloud infrastructure and frontend polish. At startups he has repeatedly moved prototypes to scaled, reliable deployments (including work that helped grow understand.ai from a handful of engineers into a 90+ person company and eventual exit) and currently leads AI at ama, focusing on GDPR- and EU AI Act-compliant hiring agents. He’s also an active open-source contributor who improved core functionality in well-known projects like osmnx and Apache Libcloud, demonstrating a knack for robust backend and graph/edge-case engineering. Unconventional among ML leads, he designs from first principles and builds resilient agent frameworks that run thousands of flows daily, favoring long-term, maintainable systems over quick wins. Fast-learning, detail-oriented, and resilient, he thrives in chaotic problem spaces where end-to-end ownership matters.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Abitur, Abitur at Welfengymnasium SchongauMaster’s Degree Informatics, Master’s Degree Informatics at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) Informatik, Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) Informatik at KTH Royal Institute of TechnologyMalibu High School
German, English, Swedish, Portuguese
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Github Skills (25)
cloud-computing10
python10
retrying10
networkx10
geospatial10
libcloud10
api-design9
testing9
pytest9
spatial-data9
spatial-analysis9
gis9
s3-bucket8
oauth8
amazon-s38
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
apache/libcloud
May 2021 - Dec 2022
Apache Libcloud is a Python library which hides differences between different cloud provider APIs and allows you to manage different cloud resources through a unified and easy to use API.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 11 commits, 3 PRs in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Veith primarily focused on improving the robustness and functionality of the Apache Libcloud library. Their contributions included enhancing the retry mechanism to handle transient errors, incorporating a minimal retry class, and adding the ability to disable infinite retries on rate limiting. They also addressed a bug related to missing ETags in the S3 driver, and implemented a local loopback for OAuth login with a desktop client. These changes improved the library's stability and user experience.
python-libraryapilibcloudpythonhides
gboeing/osmnx
Nov 2018 - Jan 2019
Download, model, analyze, and visualize street networks and other geospatial features from OpenStreetMap.
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 1 PR, 6 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Veith refactored and improved core functionalities within the osmnx library. They updated the `create_graph` and related functions, replacing the `network_type` parameter with `bidirectional` to manage edge directions. Further contributions included updating deprecated function calls and adding features like the ability to specify edge-specific default values. The changes indicate a focus on enhancing the library's graph manipulation and data retrieval capabilities.
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