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      <description>&lt;p&gt;Hi! I am Timo,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I am currently working as a &lt;strong&gt;Solutions Engineer&lt;/strong&gt; at &lt;a href=&#34;www.taktile.com&#34;&gt;&lt;code&gt;Taktile&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/a&gt; in their Berlin office, where I help translate customer business objectives into high-impact risk solutions, deliver value-focused demos, and lead technical evaluations that convert prospects into customers.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Before moving to Berlin, I studied &lt;strong&gt;Business Analytics&lt;/strong&gt; learning as much as possible about the inner workings of AI and how to apply AI/ML and cloud solutions to real business problems to solve them by building great data products and prototypes.&lt;/p&gt;</description>
      <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi! I am Timo,</p>
<p>I am currently working as a <strong>Solutions Engineer</strong> at <a href="www.taktile.com"><code>Taktile</code></a> in their Berlin office, where I help translate customer business objectives into high-impact risk solutions, deliver value-focused demos, and lead technical evaluations that convert prospects into customers.</p>
<p>Before moving to Berlin, I studied <strong>Business Analytics</strong> learning as much as possible about the inner workings of AI and how to apply AI/ML and cloud solutions to real business problems to solve them by building great data products and prototypes.</p>
<p>Before coming to Barcelona, I worked for over 1,5 years as <strong>Management Consultant for Data &amp; Analytics</strong> in Germany and got the chance to rotate through <strong>nine different departments at Telefónica</strong> in Munich and Madrid during my previous studies, building on a <strong>M.Sc. in Finance &amp; Accounting</strong> and a <strong>Bachelor in Business Administration</strong>.</p>
<p>I love to ride my bike 🚴‍♂️ and capture unique moments, landscapes or architectures with my camera/phone 📷.</p>
<p><a href="./contact.md">Reach out</a> if you&rsquo;re in Berlin or are interest in connecting!</p>
<h3 id="topics-of-interest">Topics of Interest</h3>
<p><code>Machine Learning</code> <code>Data Architectures</code> <code>Explainable AI (XAI)</code> <code>Knowledge Graphs</code> <code>Fraud Detection</code></p>
<h3 id="my-current-tech-stack">My current tech stack</h3>
<p><code>VSCode</code> <code>Claude Code</code> <code>Cursor</code> <code>git</code> <code>uv</code> <code>Docker</code> <code>Notion</code> <code>Perplexity</code> <code>Warp</code></p>
<h3 id="worked-a-lot-with">Worked (a lot) with</h3>
<p><code>Excel</code> <code>PowerBI</code> <code>AWS</code> <code>Python</code> <code>Beautiful Soup</code> <code>Streamlit</code> <code>Flask</code></p>
<h3 id="played-around-with">Played around with</h3>
<p><code>GCP</code> <code>Docker</code> <code>SQL</code> <code>Knime</code> <code>HTML/CSS/JS</code> <code>Supabase Postgres</code> <code>Azure</code> <a href="https://github.com/briefercloud/briefer"><code>Briefer</code></a></p>
<h1 id="i-am-currently-working-on">I am currently working on</h1>
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<p>My master thesis combining traditional XAI methods like SHAP and Counterfactuals with LLMs to generate model decision explanations in easy-to-understand natural language and creating a comprehensive evaluation framework to assess the generated explanation quality</p>
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<p>Technical evaluations for enterprise prospects evaluating decision intelligence platforms</p>
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<p>Building solution prototypes and conducting POVs for credit underwriting, customer onboarding and fraud detection risk management use cases</p>
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<p>Developing reusable demo assets and technical templates to scale pre-sales excellence across the Solutions Engineering team</p>
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<h1 id="former-projects">Former projects</h1>
<p><code>Data Science &amp; Analytics</code></p>
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<p>Built a <strong>churn prediction/policy downgrade model</strong> for a global insurance company (Esade Capstone project)</p>
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<p>Lead team of 10 Data &amp; Analytics consultants at <a href="https://www.180dc.org/branches/barcelona">180 Degrees Barcelona</a> across different projects (e.g. developing a <strong>webscraping module for supplier ESG data</strong> incl. company classification using a LLM for a sustainability reporting startup)</p>
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<p>Review analyzer to pull reviews from Google MyBusiness API with OpenAI sentiment analysis.</p>
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<p>Streamlit dashboard to visualize customer churn probability for telco customers with adjustable business case &amp; prediction parameters.</p>
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<p><a href="https://github.com/sachstimo/startup-prediction-modeling">(Trying to) predict startup investment sucess</a> using XGBoost, SVM and Logistic Regression.</p>
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<p><code>FP&amp;A</code></p>
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<p><a href="../posts/20211221_WayraFPT">Startup Financial Planning Tool</a> - Top-down business plan for SaaS startup to calculate the number of required users in order to reach ARR target.</p>
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<p>Created a post-merger financial planning template to plan and break down revenue and cost targets across new business divisions and regions</p>
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<p><code>Tinkering around</code></p>
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<p><a href="https://github.com/sachstimo/song-of-the-day">&ldquo;Song of the Day&rdquo;:</a> Song recommender based on current mood using Spotify API.</p>
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<p><a href="https://github.com/sachstimo/secret-santa-mailer">Secret Santa Emailer:</a> Helper program to automate assignment and invitation emails.</p>
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<p>Building a PowerBI dashboard with automated data inputs through MS Forms to visualize our internal game statistics for playing Uno.</p>
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<p>These projects are also <strong>partially available on my <a href="https://github.com/sachstimo">GitHub</a></strong>. Feel free to have a look and reach out!</p>
<h1 id="favorite-resources">Favorite Resources</h1>
<p>An affiliate-free collection of my favorite tools, websites and books I use or read regularly.</p>
<p><code>Tools🛠️ - not sponsored</code></p>
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<li><a href="https://briefer.cloud/">Briefer</a> to create quick &amp; easy dashboard (will be sunset in November 2025 unfortunately)</li>
<li><a href="https://www.komoot.com/">Komoot</a> for planning bike, hiking or any outdoor tours</li>
<li><a href="https://arc.net/">Arc</a>, the best web browser out there (at least until the release of <a href="https://www.perplexity.ai/comet">Comet</a>)</li>
<li><a href="https://www.parqet.com/">Parquet</a> to track finances and investments</li>
<li><a href="https://www.realbyteapps.com/">Money Manager</a> to track daily expenses</li>
<li><a href="../misc/PowerPoint_Customizations.exportedUI">PPT Quickaccess Bar</a> - <code>right click</code> +<code>save link as...</code> *.exportedUI | <a href="https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/customize-the-quick-access-toolbar-43fff1c9-ebc4-4963-bdbd-c2b6b0739e52#:~:text=in%20Office.-,Import%20a%20customized%20Quick%20Access%20Toolbar,-You%20can%20import">how-to</a></li>
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<p><code>Websites🌐</code></p>
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<li><a href="https://poloclub.github.io/transformer-explainer/">Transformers Explained</a> for a great overview of the transformer architecture</li>
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<p><code>Books📖</code></p>
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<li>Medidations for Mortals - Oliver Burkeman</li>
<li>Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury</li>
<li>Algorithms to Live By - Brian Christian &amp; Tom Griffiths</li>
<li>The First Minute - Chris Fenning</li>
<li>The Neverending Story - Michael Ende</li>
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