About Me
Expertise in AI implementation and strategic transformation
Kai Wöllstein
Independent AI Engineer & Solutions Architect
AI
Automation
Process Optimization
Strategic Transformation
Based in Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Profile
AI engineer and product leader who ships end-to-end in high-stakes, regulated environments (international law, e-commerce M&A, asset management), spanning agentic LLM systems, ML research, and zero-to-one product strategy. Hands-on with Python, PyTorch, and agentic/RAG systems, backed by a quantitative research foundation and a first-principles bias towards shipping.
Experience
Independent AI Engineer & Solutions Architect
AutoK.ai
Aug. 2025 – Present
- Build a multi-agent scraping & orchestration pipeline (async, rate-limiting, cost controls) that autonomously ingests financial reports & communications into a structured retrieval knowledge base (Python, vector DBs, LLM agents, RAG)
- Train deep-learning models in PyTorch spanning transformers, multimodal systems, and time-series forecasting, with reproducible, production-grade ML pipelines
- Deliver proprietary quantitative-research pipelines for a confidential financial-markets engagement, applying first principles to turn novel ML methods into practical automation
AI & Software Engineer, Dispute Resolution (Part-Time)
Freshfields
Apr. 2023 – Jul. 2025
- Translated complex legal strategies into precise technical specifications, bridging the legal-engineering gap to ensure software directly met critical case requirements, including for multiple Fortune 10 clients
- Designed and built a full-stack automated risk and settlement calculator for a €1B+ litigation, codifying complex German Civil Code (BGB) logic into JavaScript to determine liability and damages
- Engineered AI/ML solutions across the case lifecycle: a claimant de-duplication system (fuzzy matching), GenAI pipelines over thousands of patent and privileged documents, and automations across 1M+ datapoints, saving an estimated 5,000+ hours of manual work
Product Manager and M&A Tech Analyst
Razor Group
Mar. 2021 – Jul. 2022
- Owned the product strategy and implementation of the M&A tech platform, cutting the time for valuation and offer generation from weeks to hours, enabling today's global market-leading e-commerce aggregator to rapidly scale to a $1B+ valuation and $400M+ revenue in just 1.5 years since founding
- Built the Vector Accelerated Reconciliation (VAR) platform on AWS as head valuation analyst on 50+ M&A deals, semi-automating valuation and due diligence by calculating a P&L from millions of transactions and auto-generating investment committee slides, delivering $1M+ in value on single deals
- Saved 1,000+ hours/month by both personally developing key automations and leading agile delivery across product workstreams with up to 10 developers (roadmap, KPIs & hiring)
Student Assistant
Metzler Asset Management
Jun. 2018 – May 2020
- Contributed to benchmark-beating quantitative strategies in Fixed Income & Asset Allocation
- Engineered and automated complex financial models (e.g., Merton Distance-to-Default) using object-oriented programming and data pipelines to enhance portfolio analytics and decision-making
- Analyzed bond issuers via credit analysis and direct intelligence gathering at financial roadshows
Education
M.Sc. Candidate in Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning
Technical University of Darmstadt
Apr. 2026 – Mar. 2028
- Engineering intelligence to solve everything else: synthesizing work across biological, economic, and legal systems to build the tools that safely tackle humanity's hardest challenges
B.Sc. in Bioinformatics
Goethe University Frankfurt am Main
Oct. 2022 – Oct. 2025
- Specialized in RNA & Genetics, bridging wet-lab molecular genetics with machine-learning methods; B.Sc. thesis (SeRP_HMM) graded Sehr Gut / Very Good (top tier)
- Deutschlandstipendium (national merit scholarship, BMBF, 2024); 2nd place at the interdisciplinary “Level APP!” Hackathon (2023)
- Selected coursework: Structural Bioinformatics, Algorithms & Models in Bioinformatics, Algorithms & Data Structures, Statistics, Linear Algebra & Discrete Mathematics, Analysis & Numerical Mathematics, Databases, Modelling & Simulation, Organic Chemistry & Biochemistry (labs), Molecular Biology & Genetics (lab), Neurobiology & Cell Biology, RNA Bioinformatics
Economics and Business Administration
Goethe University Frankfurt am Main
Apr. 2017 – Mar. 2022
- Dean's List Award; exchange at University of Malaya across Business, Economics, and Science
Selected Projects
- Nixtla NeuralForecast (contributor): merged GELU grn_activation into the Temporal Fusion Transformer of a leading PyTorch forecasting library — 4.2k+ stars, 290k+ monthly downloads
- SeRP_HMM (B.Sc. thesis): three-state Gaussian HMM decoding noisy SeRP signal into importin binding states in S. cerevisiae; surfaced a novel pre-commitment phase. Python, hmmlearn, SciPy, pandas
- riboHMM: 17-state HMM with multinomial emissions (Baum-Welch / Viterbi) for Ribo-Seq reading-frame identification, reaching 97–100% frame accuracy. Python, hmmlearn, pysam
- Multimodal Parliament Explorer (team project): full-stack Bundestag debate analytics with a Java/Javalin REST API, an NLP pipeline (Whisper/spaCy), and d3.js visualizations
- Molecular Genetics Lab: S. cerevisiae genetics (tetrad analysis, complementation, auxotroph/UV-mutagenesis screening, CRISPR-Cas); E. coli gene knockouts (FRT/Kan, electroporation); plasmid prep & restriction mapping
Technical Capabilities & Leadership
AI/ML & Quant
GenAI (RAG, Multi-Agent Systems/Agent Orchestration, Fine-tuning, Context/Prompt Engineering, Embeddings)
Model Context Protocol (MCP)
LLM Evals
NLP (spaCy, Whisper)
Vector DBs
Knowledge Graphs/Bases
LangChain/LangGraph
Hugging Face
PyTorch/Lightning
Responsible AI
Palantir Foundry/AIP
Transformers
Multimodal AI
scikit-learn
pandas
NumPy
MLOps
HMMs
Time-Series Forecasting
Stack
Python
Java
TypeScript/React
C++
SQL/NoSQL
Docker
Redis
Git
GCP
AWS
Azure
R
Systems & Testing
System Design
Distributed Systems
RESTful APIs
ETL/Pipelines
CI/CD
Microservices
Cloud-Native
Serverless
IT-Compliance
Document Processing
Unit-/Performance-Tests (pytest)
Ruff
pre-commit
Monitoring
Data Validation & Integrity
Bioinformatics
RNA-seq & Ribosome Profiling (Ribo-Seq, SeRP)
Alignment (STAR) & quantification (Salmon)
Differential expression (DESeq2) & GO enrichment (gProfiler)
GENCODE/GTF annotation
HMM sequence modelling
pysam
Galaxy/Bioconductor
SGD (yeast genome database)
Leadership & Methods
Stakeholder & Risk Management
Agile/Scrum (Jira, GitHub Projects)
Product Strategy
UX Design (Figma)
KPIs/OKRs
Executive Presentations
Cross-Functional Teams
Solution Architecture
Data Governance
Certifications
Palantir Foundry & AIP Builder Foundations (2026)
DeepLearning.AI Agentic AI (2025)
Languages
German (Native)
English (Fluent)
Interests
Geopolitical Analysis
Game Theory
Behavioral Economics
First-Principles