Hi, I am Luis 👋
Passionate CS & AI student abroad in Segovia, Spain. Always on the lookout for the next Competition!
LK

About

Its my dream to change the world to the better using software (maybe also hardware in the future).

Skills

Python
C#, ASP.NET
Angular
JavaScript
SQL
MongoDB
Postgres
Docker
Microservices
Nginx
Nexus
Test automation
Git
Github Actions
Jenkins
Loki
Prometheus
Grafana
Agile Practices (Scrum)
Cisco: Routers, Switches, VPN, WAN, WLAN Security, Wireshark
Proxmox
Packet Tracer
Windows/Mac/Linux
My Projects

Check out my latest work (more coming soon...)

I've worked on a variety of projects, from backend microservices to machine learning pipelines Here are a few of my favorites.

Lanugage Learner Chrome Ext.

Lanugage Learner Chrome Ext.

Since I have moved to Spain in August 2024 and I want to learn Spanish, I have built a chrome extension to provide me with translations of websites, the option to listen to a Spanish voice speaking the selected text and additional practice examples. It works with an LLM-API, as well as a Spanish Text-2-Speech API.

Java Script

EOX IT Services GmbH: SIGMA (Satellite Intelligence for Green Monitoring and Analytics)

In cooperation with EOX IT Services GmbH, my team and I developed an AI pipeline to train and detect soil sealing in Austria. for the training data, we are using OSM & Sentinel-2 data (both open source). The results can be seen, but need to be slightly improved to be used for decision-makers. Feel free to contribute on Github:

Python
Pytorch
Pytorch Lightning
Weights & Biases
Multi-Spectral satellite data
OSM Data
Hugging Face

Austrian Ministry of Interior: ctrlShift

In collaboration with the Austrian Ministry of Interior, my team and I developed a secure, full-stack shift-planning application (POC) within only 8 months. The success of the project led to further collaboration and letters of recommendation.

C#
ASP.NET
SQLite
Electron
Angular
Climatics: Climate Change Opinion Research

Climatics: Climate Change Opinion Research

With a team of other students we built a webscraper, preprocessing-pipeline and trained an AI model, in order to perform sentiment analysis about climate change (Classification of tweets into: News, Pro, Contra, Neutral). After obtaining our results from the AI model, we save them automatically in a MySQL database and built a website to display them. We were able to scraper over 250k tweets per hour.

C#
Python
NLP
MySQL
JS
Hackathons

Competitions & Awards

Competition time... Everything blurrs... There is just the problem statement, the team and our vision... That is exactly when things start to get interesting... What perspectives are important to consider? How can we build the best solution? How can we pitch it in a catching story? What are our USPs?

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    1st place Sustainability Datatho by IEU x EDP

    Madrid, Spain

    Developed forecasting models to predict energy prices and the demand-supply imbalance based on historical data for the UK. The model's accuracy ranked #1 against 38 competitor teams (mostly master students)
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    1st place voting-prize: eLegal AI-Law Hackathon @ Allen & Overy

    Frankfurt, Germany

    Developed a working prototype assistant for legal topics which are related to Workation abroad.
  • 1

    1st place: ADV Data Excellence Award

    DACH

    Award for the SIGMA project.
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    2nd place: Green Data Award at the CIO Congress from LSZ & Sustainista

    Loipersdorf, Austria

    Competed against big Austrian cooperations with the project: Autopreneurs - Road Safety - driven by AI
  • 1

    1st place: Moonshot Pirates - Shape The Future Challange (90+ countries)

    Online -> San Francisco, California

    Students from over 90 different countries participated at the challange for the future of mobility. My team and I won the 1st place and a trip to Silicon Valley. (Oliver Sommer, Lilia Gerber, Tobias Lendl)
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    1st place: Hackathon Vienna: Corporate Coding for Sustainability

    Vienna, Austria

    We not only developed a concept for deposit bottle recycling for REWE International AG, but also developed a finished application within 48 hours, which can predict the type of bottle using artificial intelligence.
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    AI for Green award (Austrian national competition for AI)

    Vienna

    With the Trendoro project, my team, consisting of Lilia Gerber, Maximilian Busch and myself, won the AI for Green prize at the Austrian National Artificial Intelligence Competition. Trendoro is a Time Series Forecasting project that aims to predict product demand. Our accurate predictions can reduce overproduction and save resources along the entire supply chain as well as emissions.
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    1st place: HTL-Hackathon: Natural Language Processing (AI), Accenture

    Vienna

    In April 2022, my team and I won at the Accenture HTL-Hackathon with our NLP concept. We worked on an AI based study innovation for school. We named it Cassroom 3.0.
  • K

    Kardea Financial Education Award, University of Business & Economics Vienna

    Vienna

    With the project Cartos, I won the Kardea Financial Education Award 2020 with a classmate. Cartos is a course platform on the topic of money and finance and offers children and young people the opportunity to take free courses with certificates.
Conferences

Public Speaking

Public speaking is one of my interests and I am always on the lookout for new opportunities to challenge myself in this regard. I've presented many of my projects at different conferences in German and English.

AI x Law conference (Austrian Economic Chambers)

AI x Law conference (Austrian Economic Chambers)

First, together with Lilia Gerber we presented our final HTL Spengergasse project which was implemented in cooperation with EOX IT Services GmbH. And second, the project Donna from our most recent eLegal Hackathon win in Frankfurt.

Green Business Disruption Summit 2024

Green Business Disruption Summit 2024

At the Green Business Disruption Summit 2024, Dominik Fluch and I got the exciting opportunity to present our final HTL Spengergasse project, which aims to detect soil sealing (Bodenversiegelung) based on Sentinel-2 Satellite data using AI. It will soon be open-sourced. Soil sealing is a major threat to our planet and needs to be addressed and monitored(!) globally. The project is being realized with my team (Maximilian Wolf, Tobias Lendl, Lilia Gerber, Dominik Fluch) and in close collaboration with our project partner EOX IT Services GmbH which supported us very well.

Meeting the President of Austria (Ashoka GenC)

Meeting the President of Austria (Ashoka GenC)

I had the chance to meet the President of Austria, Alexander Van der Bellen together with the GenC from Ashoka Austria and hand over the YEP Austria Youth Report. As well, I got the opportunity to tell about one of my projects and discuss the importance of AI for fighting climate change.

IT & Consultants day @ Hofburg Vienna

IT & Consultants day @ Hofburg Vienna

Last Thursday, Lilia Gerber and I had the great opportunity to present one of our AI projects at the Austrian IT&Consultants day by Fachverband UBIT in the HOFBURG Vienna and to take part in an exciting panel talk together with Jeannette Gorzala, Markus Hoffmann and Harald Zumpf.

Austrian Minister of Education

Austrian Minister of Education

Lilia Gerber and I got the opportunity to present one of our AI projects to the Austrian Minister of Education. Through his visit to the HTL-Spengergasse we were able to gain valuable experience for our presentation technique and received very good feedback.

CIO Congress 2023 (LSZ)

CIO Congress 2023 (LSZ)

Presenting the AIrbagged project at the #GreenDataAward competition in front of almost all Austrian Top-CIOs and achieving 2nd place against professional competitors like Huawei or Salzburg AG.

WKÖ e-day (Austrian Economic Chambers)

At this year's wko e-day, Lilia Gerber and I presented our Rebottle project to show how artificial intelligence can contribute to more sustainability.

Green Business Disruption Summit 2023

Green Business Disruption Summit 2023

Presenting my demand-forcasting project Trendoro together with my good friend Lilia Gerber was a great opportunity to get experience in public speaking and having fun.

Austrian Minister of climate protection

Austrian Minister of climate protection

Lilia Gerber, Maximilian Busch and I, were invited to the Bundesministerium für Klimaschutz, Umwelt, Energie, Mobilität, Innovation & Technologie to talk about the green use of Artificial Intelligence. We were able to participate in workshops and lectures about current scientific technologies.Especially as AI Embassadors on behalf of Austrian Society for Artificial Intelligence, Lilia Gerber and I were pleased to also speak on the topic of Artificial Intelligence for students and how important it is to educate the new generations about it.

Corporate Sustainability Hackathon

My team and I won 1st place in the Hackathon for Corporate Sustainability! We, as a team of the HTL Spengergasse High Potential Program (Lilia Gerber, Maximilian Busch), prevailed against 10 other teams from universities all over Austria. We not only developed a concept for deposit bottle recycling for REWE International AG, but also developed a finished application within 48 hours, which can predict the type of bottle using artificial intelligence.

Public Relations

Media Coverage

Turns out, some of my projects are newsworthy! Here’s where you’ll find interviews, articles, and features where I’ve had my 15 minutes of fame—give or take. Always happy to chat about tech, innovation, and whatever’s buzzing!

Frontpage: Trend Magazine

Frontpage: Trend Magazine

Meet the Shape the Future Challenge 2023 Winners

Moonshot Pirates

Moonshot Pirates

Meet the Shape the Future Challenge 2023 Winners

REWE Group - Press Release

REWE Group - Press Release

REWE Group setzt auf digitale Lösungen für mehr Nachhaltigkeit

Hölzel Journal (Kardea: Financial Education Award Coverage)

Hölzel Journal (Kardea: Financial Education Award Coverage)

After winning the Austria-wide KARDEA financial education award, the Hölzel journal covered it.

HTL-Spengergasse (Computer Science High School)

HTL-Spengergasse (Computer Science High School)

Articles from my high school's webiste.

Contact

Get in Touch

Want to chat? Just shoot me a dm with a direct message on LinkedIn and I'll respond whenever I can.