Curriculum Vitae

Abdulkader • Vienna, Austria

Professional Experience

Data Specialist
Light for the World
10/2024 – 03/2026
Vienna, Austria • Contract
  • Automated workflows, reducing task completion time in critical business cases from days to minutes.
  • Managed and maintained data infrastructure and analytics dashboards across 6 African partner countries.
  • Built an AI evaluation system to automate strategy assessment, substantially decreasing reliance on external consultants.
  • Led internal AI knowledge transfer sessions on privacy, model limitations, and modern tooling.
Software Developer
Baubot
04/2024 – 09/2024
Vienna, Austria • Working Student
  • Overhauled 3D robotics simulation software algorithms, significantly enhancing performance and UX workflows.
  • Designed telemetry data collection tests on physical robotic hardware for machine learning model training.
  • Constructed mission-critical PowerBI business intelligence dashboards and conducted data wrangling workshops.
  • Set up robust CI/CD automated testing pipelines to ensure legacy codebase quality and maintainability.
Data Scientist
Microsoft
07/2022 – 10/2022
Vienna, Austria • Internship
  • Analyzed user behavioral patterns across multi-billion-row telemetry databases using Apache Spark & Databricks.
  • Conducted root cause diagnosis for high-throughput distributed service failures using structured log analytics.
  • Formulated server performance testing KPIs and led knowledge transfer sessions on big data workflows.
  • Tested and validated freshly deployed enterprise data warehouse pipelines.
Data Scientist
Strabag
08/2021 – 03/2022
Vienna, Austria • Internship
  • Implemented and deployed machine learning solutions on Azure Cognitive Services for production workflows.
  • Developed anomaly detection algorithms to identify human modeling errors within complex 3D BIM data.
  • Extracted predictive operational insights from business and construction manufacturing datasets.
Software Developer
Airline Strategy Group
10/2020 – 07/2021
Remote • Contract
  • Sole developer for flight revenue and flight service quality forecasting software.
  • Authored highly optimized SQL queries and designed mock testing environments (databases) to ensure calculation precision.
Software Developer
Upwork
07/2020 – 10/2020
Remote • Contract
  • Evaluated transformer code-generation models, generated annotated algorithmic benchmark datasets, and validated peer developer submissions.

Education

M.Sc. in AI
Johannes Kepler University
2022 – 2026
Linz, Austria

Thesis: "Memory Efficient Fine-tuning of Large Language Models"

B.Sc. in Informatics
IMC Univ. of Applied Sciences
2019 – 2022
Krems, Austria

Focus in Data Science and Machine Learning. Received Outstanding Graduate Award.

Thesis: "The Feasibility of Hand-Gesture Controlled Applications"

Certifications

10/2024
Rice University / Coursera
Investment and Portfolio Management Specialization

5-course series on asset pricing, modern portfolio theory, and behavioral economics.

09/2022
Univ. of Alberta / Coursera
Reinforcement Learning Specialization

4-course comprehensive series covering Reinforcement Learning based on Sutton and Barto's book.

08/2023
Cornell University
Take the Lead: Leadership, Entrepreneurship, Management

Executive leadership program on decision-making, leadership, and negotiation.

10/2022
Microsoft / Coursera
Microsoft Azure for Data Engineering

Data lakehouse architecture, Azure Synapse, and automated streaming ingest pipelines.

10/2021
Microsoft Certified
Microsoft Certified: Azure Data Scientist & Azure AI Engineer Associate

Proctored industry certifications for ML model training and cognitive service production deployments.

Technical Skills

Programming
Python, SQL, R, Kotlin, JavaScript, TypeScript, Julia, Java, Rust
Tools & AI
PyTorch, TensorFlow, Hugging Face, JAX, NumPy, SciPy, Pandas, Polars, Scikit-learn, Apache Spark, Databricks, Microsoft Azure AI, PowerBI, Matplotlib, Plotly, PyQt, etc.