Projects I worked on
Falcon Twig
Personal Project
I was really interested in how people used Tools from OpenAI in the past and how LLMs have evolved. I wanted to explore how I could use tools to enhance the performance of LLMs. So I finetuned the Falcon H1 model to use tools.
Role: Sole Developer
LLM-Based Recommender Systems
Seminar Paper
As part of a course, I wrote a paper on LLM-Based Recommender Systems. I explored different approaches to incorperating LLMs into recommender systems and their advantages and disadvantages. Particularly, I was interested in the use of LLMs to generate dynamic personalized content, based on user intents and preferences.
Role: Sole Developer
DCASE 2025 Challenge
Machine Learning Competition
As part of a course, I participated in the DCASE 2025 Challenge with a small Team. We tried many different approaches and were able to work on the Vienna Scientific Computing cluster. While we didn't win, we got a lot of experience with Audio ML. Our technical report was published on the DCASE website.
Role: Student
Shopify Search Engine
Personal Project
I created a Search engine across shopify stores. This includes 580k products. I added functionality for Semantic search and content based Recommender system.
Role: Sole Developer
Ongoing Thesis: Language based Audio Retrieval
Bachelor thesis
As my Bachelor thesis, I am exploring new ways to Retrieve Audio based on Text search together with my Supervisor @JKU.
Role: Student
Privacy Journal
Personal Project
Created a Privacy first, journaling app with all journals stored on the users private github repo. I also added a voice to text feature using OpenAI Whisper bc I was annoyed how bad Apple's text to speech was.
Role: Sole Developer
React Beginners Course
Client Work
Designed and delivered a React.js course for a coding bootcamp. The curriculum covered modern React concepts, best practices, and real-world application development, helping students build a strong foundation in frontend development.
Role: Lead Instructor