Dr. Lukas Pfannschmidt

Dr. Lukas Pfannschmidt

Senior Machine Learning Engineer

Trade Republic

I’m a senior machine learning engineer with a research background. My work concentrates on three areas:

  1. Production ML systems: training + evaluation pipelines, feature/data quality, reproducibility.
  2. Performance & cost: profiling, workload consolidation, pragmatic refactoring of critical paths.
  3. Reliability & observability: clear metrics, failure analysis, reducing variance in model behaviour and deployments.

Previously, I did research in machine learning and feature relevance with a focus on reproducibility and efficient experimentation (high‑performance computing roots). I still care about lean experiment design, versioned data, and traceable results.

Selected themes I keep returning to:

  • Simplifying overgrown internal platforms instead of adding another layer.
  • Automating the boring parts of evaluation so human review time is spent on edge cases.
  • Treating model + data + infra changes as one unit when reasoning about regression risk.

Outside work: strength training, mountain trails, strategy / systems games, and the occasional attempt to cook something plant‑based that isn’t another lentil variant.

Interests
  • Advanced Machine Learning Techniques
  • Cutting-edge Software Engineering Practices
  • Machine Learning Operations (MLOps)
  • Innovative Cloud Application Development
Education
  • Dr. rer. nat. Machine Learning, 2021

    Bielefeld University

  • B.Sc & M.Sc. in Bioinformatics and Genome Research, 2014 & 2016

    Bielefeld University

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