Complex problems. Clear thoughts. Real outcomes.
Executive AI and Automation Partner for owners, managing directors and CTOs. Head of AI Engineering at IU Group. Working with machine learning and NLP since 2017.
Workshops for leadership teams, a Deep Dive into planned or stalled AI initiatives, and ongoing Executive Sparring on strategy, organisation and technology. More on the website.
- IU Group: responsible for the AI systems in customer service. Around 130 service agents work with the platform; median first response time in the covered queues went from around 23 to 5 hours.
- Oxolo (now Himala), CTO: platform from zero to over 600,000 users and 1M videos in 80 countries; led the technical due diligence of a EUR 13M Series A; scaled engineering and AI to 25+ engineers.
- Floy, medical imaging: 10x DICOM pipeline throughput; 25 services and five databases migrated to AWS without downtime.
- fse: fast sentence embeddings, 300k+ installations, 600+ stars
- proqi: terminal prompt composer for people running several coding agents
- claude-gh-status: Claude Code mod with live GitHub pull request status and confirmed merge actions
- fractional-cto: Claude Code plugins with engineering standards
- pydantypes: exotic pydantic types
- mcp-server-docy: MCP server that lets LLMs search and read documentation websites
- mcp-server-pacman: MCP server for querying package indexes
- tablestakes: MCP server for reading and editing tables in GitBook-synced documents
- Do You Even Need a Decision Model? (code)
- Durable Workflows Inside Postgres: a field test of pg_durable (code)
Current articles and field tests: drborchers.com. Earlier on Medium:
- Sentence Embeddings. Fast, please!
- A Hitchhiker's Guide to Mixture Density Networks
- Visualizing 100.000 Amazon Products
- Your Labels and Data are Noisy? LASSO The Traitors!
- Putting GPT-Neo (and Others) into Production using ONNX
- 3 Years of API Knowledge in 20 Tips
Dr. rer. pol. summa cum laude, University of Mannheim, on AI in marketing (Stiftung Marketing dissertation award, 2020). M.Sc. and B.Sc., University of Siegen.