whoami

After graduating from ETH in December 2023, I started exploring start-up ideas and built machine learning pipelines & products as a freelancer. In Fall I realized that I'd need 100% of my focus to make an idea take off. But this was impossible as long as I'd only have enough money to sustain myself for 2-3 months. So I decided to focus on the freelancing until I'd have enough runway to build for 9-12 months. I've arrived at this point now (April 2024) and will be exclusively focusing on building as of May 1st. I'm still looking for a co-founder, but a learning from last year was that this isn't a full-time job and I'm going to start building what I believe in and find a co-founder along the way.

A high-level timeline

2015-2018 - Studied business and economics in St. Gallen. Figured out to make my thesis a CS project and built object detection pipelines in Tensorflow.
2018-2020 - Interned at BCG and as a data scientist at On. Took 3 months off to read Introduction to Statistical Learning and work through Stanford's CS231n and CS224n. Worked as a data scientist for Lakestar, a VC fund.
2019 & 2020 - After holding several guest lectures I was invited by the University of St. Gallen to teach my own course on Data Science.
2020 - Started studying statistics at ETH Zurich
2021 Feb-July - Short break from studying to clear containers in Sierra Leone for my passion project Sierra Leone Hockey.
2023 - Finished studies at ETH Zurich, published my master's thesis at NeurIPS. Also published this and this paper in computational genomics along the way.
2024-Now - Working on my own ideas and building ML pipelines and applications for other start-ups.