Hey, I'm Justus, 27 years old and from Hamburg. Currently building a product to make optimisation accessible to everyone. Background in operational research and deep learning, passionate about software and all things CS — always curious and exploring. Feel free to drop me a message :)
AI Engineer
audit.neo, Hamburg, Germany
Jan 2024 - Aug 2025
Designed, developed, and deployed from concept to production:
- Fraud detection systems using deep learning
- A chatbot system tailored to auditors
- ML/OR tools for internal use
Master's Thesis
Lufthansa Systems, Raunheim, Germany
Jun 2023 - Aug 2023
Solved the tail assignment problem (matching aircraft to flights) using problem-dependent graph algorithms and column generation
Research Team Member
mu-zero HYPERLOOP, Karlsruhe, Germany
Oct 2021 - Sep 2022
Researched the feasibility of adapting existing railway infrastructure for ultra-high-speed transportation
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Research Assistant
Institute of Product Engineering at KIT, Karlsruhe, Germany
Jul 2021 - Dec 2021
Literature research and comparative analysis of product development approaches
Intern IT Management in Logistics and Production
Porsche AG, Zuffenhausen, Germany
Sep 2020 - Dec 2020
IT management support across production and logistics:
- Supported introduction of capability management, identifying business skills and information objects
- Tested and evaluated EAM tools for capability management use
- Built an internal tool for automated business case calculations
Teaching Assistant
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
Apr 2020 - Aug 2020
Prepared and led tutorial sessions for "Introduction to Operations Research I"
Intern Market Research and Product Evaluation
HorseAnalytics, Hamburg, Germany
Jun 2018 - Aug 2018
Intern Data Collection and Analysis
NÜWIEL, Hamburg, Germany
May 2018 - Jun 2018
Personal Portfolio Website
Who wouldn't be interested in what I do!?
2025
I always wanted to build my own portfolio website, mainly to have a public domain for making my HomeAssistant instance available online.
Turns out I couldn't use a subdomain and had to buy a second website. Nevertheless, I enjoyed this project — built with Svelte, AI, and passion.
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EV Charger Placement Optimization
Published Research & AIMMS-MOPTA Competition
Feb 2023 - Jan 2026
Stochastic optimization for determining electric vehicle charger locations. Developed and implemented a model for the 15th AIMMS-MOPTA Optimization Modeling Competition.
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Steck-Fix
Own Start-up: Technical Aid for Visually Impaired People
Apr 2016 - Apr 2024
- Development of a technical aid for visually impaired people
- Sales on my website and at wholesalers
- Business registration with 17 years of age
- TV appearance at "Simply ingenious!" ("Einfach genial!")
- Utility model registrations
- Inspiration for the development by my grandmother in 2014
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Dotfiles & Shell Configuration
Syncing shell and system configs across machines
2024 - Present
Simple repo to sync my shell and system configs (zsh, Homebrew, iTerm2, Karabiner, Hammerspoon) between devices. No stow/chezmoi yet, just scripts and docs for setup and shortcuts.
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Master's, Operational Research with Data Science @ School of Mathematics
The University of Edinburgh
Sep 2022 - Aug 2023
Advanced studies in operational research:
- Focus: Mixed Integer Programming with applications in logistics
- Thesis: The Tail Assignment Problem in cooperation with Lufthansa Systems
Bachelor's, Industrial Engineering and Management @ Department of Economics and Management
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
Oct 2018 - Aug 2022
Industrial engineering with early specialisation in operational research:
- Focus: Operational Research and Statistics
- Thesis: Multi-Objective Optimisation for Hyperloops at the Institute of Operations Research