I am Michael Woelki, a Machine Learning Software Engineer specializing in architecting scalable data pipelines and training AI agents. I have 4+ years of experience building high-performance Python systems and deep learning research, with hands-on work in PyTorch, JAX, and transformer-based models. I enjoy turning complex data into robust models, auditing model reasoning, and designing reproducible experiments. Outside work, I contribute to Kaggle competitions and help drive AI safety and tooling improvements through engineering best practices.

Michael Woelki

I am Michael Woelki, a Machine Learning Software Engineer specializing in architecting scalable data pipelines and training AI agents. I have 4+ years of experience building high-performance Python systems and deep learning research, with hands-on work in PyTorch, JAX, and transformer-based models. I enjoy turning complex data into robust models, auditing model reasoning, and designing reproducible experiments. Outside work, I contribute to Kaggle competitions and help drive AI safety and tooling improvements through engineering best practices.

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I am Michael Woelki, a Machine Learning Software Engineer specializing in architecting scalable data pipelines and training AI agents. I have 4+ years of experience building high-performance Python systems and deep learning research, with hands-on work in PyTorch, JAX, and transformer-based models.

I enjoy turning complex data into robust models, auditing model reasoning, and designing reproducible experiments. Outside work, I contribute to Kaggle competitions and help drive AI safety and tooling improvements through engineering best practices.

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Experience Level

Expert
Expert
Expert
Expert
Expert
Expert

Language

Bashkir
Intermediate
Javanese
Advanced

Work Experience

Machine Learning Engineer (Contract) at Applied AI Training
January 1, 2024 - Present
Designing multi-step ML challenges (gradient stability, custom CUDA kernels, distributed training) for AI agents to solve in isolated Python environments. Audited failure modes in code-generation models, identifying bottlenecks in JAX-based XLA compilation and PyTorch autograd. Developed standardized tasks for high-dimensional optimization and neural architecture search. Curated high-quality golden responses for supervised fine-tuning of frontier coding models.
ML Research Engineer at Fraunhofer Institute (IIS)
September 1, 2021 - December 1, 2023
Developed end-to-end Python pipelines for processing large-scale sensory data; designed Transformer-based architectures for time-series forecasting using PyTorch; tracked experiments with Weights & Biases; maintained robust Git-based CI/CD workflows with 95%+ test coverage for production-level ML modules.

Education

B.Sc. Computer Science at Technical University of Munich (TUM)
January 1, 2017 - January 1, 2021

Qualifications

DeepLearning.AI TensorFlow Developer NLP Specialization
January 11, 2030 - February 17, 2026
University of the People CS & ML Fundamentals
January 11, 2030 - February 17, 2026
Google Cloud Professional ML Engineer
January 11, 2030 - February 17, 2026

Industry Experience

Software & Internet, Computers & Electronics, Education, Professional Services