about

About

Hello, I'm Miguel.

I’m a data and AI engineer based in Berlin. I’ve spent my career building data, ML, and AI systems. From an MSc thesis on word2vec for German document retrieval at TU Munich, to NLP pipelines over hotel reviews, to demand forecasting for fast fashion, to product analytics at a publicly-traded e‑commerce platform, and now to multi-tenant ML and AI for sales intelligence at a B2B SaaS startup.

I’m currently Head of AI at Plato, a Berlin B2B SaaS building sales intelligence for distributors and wholesalers. Our customers are wholesale companies with thousands of sales reps making customer visits every week; our job is to turn their messy enterprise data into the three or four things a sales rep actually needs before walking into a meeting. Day-to-day I’m part architect, part hiring manager, part hands-on builder, part company-internal storyteller. Most weeks I’m doing all four.

Now

(Updated May 2026)

  • Building AI tooling for sales reps at Plato. Recently: a multi-tenant onboarding pipeline that took us from days of manual config per customer down to about 30 minutes. A talk about it at the Databricks Berlin User Group in April 2026.
  • Leading the AI team at Plato.
  • Writing here on machine learning, agentic systems and production AI for B2B.
  • Reading: anything on agentic AI, recsys, and when agents stop being demos and start being infrastructure.
  • Out of the office: Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, cycling around Berlin on a cargo bike with my five-year-old, surviving the early months of life with a newborn.

A past life in community

For about a decade I was active in the European Python and data community. I founded Munich DataGeeks (2013 to 2015), co-organized the PyData Berlin Conference (2017) and PyBerlin Meetup (2019 to 2020), and spoke at PyData Berlin, PyCon DE, EuroPython, and DSPT Day Porto. The Talks page has slides for most of those. I also made small contributions to Luigi, Gensim, Catboost, Hooqu, and scikit-learn along the way.

The last few years I have been mostly dormant on that front. Kids, work, and whatnot.

Talk to me

I’m always happy to swap notes on data engineering, production ML, agentic systems, or what it’s like to build an AI team from zero inside a B2B SaaS. Easiest places to reach me:

DM me on any of those and I’ll happily share my email if we want to take the conversation off-platform.