chris@schmid:~$
available for opportunities

Building AI systems that drive real business impact.

I design and ship AI prototypes on Azure that connect Databricks pipelines with Salesforce to automate B2B sales workflows.

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Impact

5+Years experience
1.4M+Accounts managed
15+Clients served
6Featured projects
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01 / 05 — from chaos to clarity

APICSVKafkaWebhookLegacy DBIoTLogsS3Mobile SDK
clean()validate()
schema.sqlstar schema
dim_stations
station_idpk
namevarchar
lat_lngpoint
dim_dates
date_idpk
day_of_weekvarchar
monthint
dim_user_type
user_type_idpk
labelvarchar
fct_tripsFACT
trip_idpk
station_idfk
date_idfk
user_type_idfk
durationint
Modeled & queried in Snowflake — see it live in the Jersey City Bikeshare case study →
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02 / 05 — about

Building enterprise software and, more recently, production AI systems with measurable business impact at Telefónica Germany. I combine deep Salesforce platform knowledge with applied ML engineering — from data pipeline to user-facing product.

B.Sc. Business Informatics from DHBW Mannheim, dual study program with Telefónica Germany, specialized in Data Science & Machine Learning. Bachelor thesis: "Blockchain Identity Solutions in Telecommunications."

lang: DE (native) · EN (C1)

Languages

PythonJavaScriptTypeScriptSolidity

Frameworks

ReactNext.jsLWCNode.js

Platforms & Tools

SalesforcePostgreSQLGitDocker
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570 contributions in 2025

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Solidity 33%Apex 28.2%JavaScript 24.4%HTML 3.3%Python 3%TypeScript 2.7%
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03 / 05 — experience

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01Jan 2021 - Present

Telefónica Germany

AI Engineer · Full-time since Sep. 2024, Dual Study 2021-2024

Mannheim, Germany

  • Accelerate B2B sales cycles by engineering AI prototypes on Azure integrating Databricks data pipelines with Salesforce, delivering automation tools that reduce manual workload and free capacity for revenue-critical activities.
  • Reduce vendor dependency by replacing third-party SaaS solutions with purpose-built in-house AI tooling, cutting costs while maintaining full control over data and model governance.
  • Eliminated manual data entry by building Salesforce-to-Salesforce RESTful API synchronizing orders in real-time and developing Lightning Web Components with Apex managing 1.4M customer accounts.
  • Showcased emerging blockchain technology in corporate innovation lab by building an SSO web app with Next.js, implementing World Coin authentication with biometric iris hash stored on-chain and wallet-based identity verification.
AzureDatabricksSalesforceLWCApex
02Mar 2019 - Aug 2021

CS Development

Founder & Lead Developer · Part-time

Munich, Germany

  • Acquired 15+ e-commerce clients alongside studies by founding a startup delivering custom full-stack web applications.
  • Increased organic traffic and conversion rates by optimizing SEO metadata, implementing structured data markup, and improving page load performance.
ReactNode.jsSEOE-Commerce
03Sep 2019 - Mar 2020

Giesecke+Devrient

Software Development Intern

Munich, Germany

  • Streamlined OS installation for payment card production by developing a cross-platform GUI application in Python.
PythonGUICross-Platform
04Aug 2018 - Sep 2018

Avast Software

Software Engineering Intern

London, United Kingdom

  • Enabled users to monitor website tracking activity by building a Chrome extension with custom authentication (password salting/hashing) and a dashboard displaying Avast security data.
Chrome ExtensionAuthSecurity
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04 / 05 — projects

citibike_platform.sql2026

Jersey City Bikeshare

Production-style data platform over 230K Citibike trips — dbt medallion architecture, Kafka streaming, Terraform-provisioned Snowflake, and Airflow orchestration.

SnowflakedbtAirflowKafkaTerraform
worldcoin_sso.ts2023

World Coin SSO Integration

SSO web app built with Next.js in Telefónica's corporate innovation lab, implementing World Coin authentication with biometric iris hash stored on-chain and wallet-based identity verification.

Next.jsBlockchainSalesforceBiometric Auth
ols_price_prediction.py2024

OLS Price Prediction

Linear Regression model for AAPL stock price prediction using Ordinary Least Squares methodology.

PythonMachine LearningOLSFinance
nyc_taxi_pipeline.py2026
Bronze
Silver
Gold

NYC Taxi Data Pipeline

320M NYC yellow taxi trips across 7 years, processed through a Bronze/Silver/Gold pipeline on Snowflake and dbt with a quarantine layer gating data quality — total compute cost: $9.94.

PythonSnowflakedbtData Engineering
gan_image_gen.py2024
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GAN Image Generation

Generative Adversarial Network trained over 500 epochs for synthetic image generation, evaluated via FID score.

PyTorchPythonMachine LearningComputer Vision
nft_factory.sol2024
factory

NFT Factory Contract

Solidity factory contract deploying ERC-721 collections with auto-mint and ownership transfer.

SolidityERC-721HardhatOpenZeppelin
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05 / 05 — contact

Let's work together.

Open to new opportunities and interesting projects. Feel free to reach out.

christian.schmid.work@gmail.com

+49 176 62867296