Heiko Hotz
Verified Expert in Engineering
Artificial Intelligence Developer
An AI and ML expert with over 20 years of experience in the IT industry, Heiko's experience encompasses software engineering, IT consulting, and data science. He works with technology leaders to help increase organizations' AI/ML adoption, creates cutting-edge AI demos and solutions, and writes blog posts about the state of the art in the space. Heiko is a recognized thought leader in the NLP domain with extensive public speaking experience.
Portfolio
Experience
Availability
Preferred Environment
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Amazon SageMaker, Python 3, PyCharm, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Amazon Machine Learning, Data Science, Hugging Face, Natural Language Processing (NLP), GPT, Generative Pre-trained Transformers (GPT), Natural Language Understanding (NLU), Python
The most amazing...
...application I've developed is a natural language generation demo for the AWS Summit that enabled customers to converse with an AI model.
Work Experience
Freelance Consultant
AI/ML Consulting
- Developed a strategy bot for an NGO that generates strategy papers for social entrepreneurs.
- Created the competency matrix for the AI and Data Science Guild for one of the Big Four.
- Co-organized a hackathon for an NGO where 20 data scientists helped acquire insights from the organization's data.
AWS Senior Solutions Architect for AI and Machine Learning
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Onboarded one of the largest global pharmaceutical companies onto the AWS ML platform, SageMaker.
- Ensured customer success by developing a custom-made solution based on the Hugging Face ecosystem, growing annual recurring revenue from $300,000 to $1.9 million.
- Enabled natural language generation with Hugging Face on AWS for one of the largest global pharmaceutical companies.
- Launched NLP in AWS and grew the community to over 350 active members to scale and coordinate NLP initiatives within AWS, publishing regular newsletters and resources and making them available externally.
Senior Data Scientist
Amazon.com
- Designed and implemented ML models to identify contact and concession reduction opportunities in EU customer service.
- Identified net concession reduction opportunities of €68 million annually EU-wide.
- Led all projects and initiatives regarding business intelligence, data analytics, and automation for the team.
- Created and implemented a machine learning model combining several algorithms to predict future charges for the UK warehouses.
- Ran a series of back-tests to validate the model's accuracy performance.
- Devised and developed automation programs to pull, consolidate, and combine data from disparate sources.
Senior Director in Data Analytics Group
FTI Consulting
- Developed an algorithm using SQL and Python to trace several billion USD in one of the largest embezzlement cases in recent history.
- Built a model for a global telecommunications provider to predict regulatory fines due to contractual breaches, reconciling data from three disparate databases and converting unstructured, loaded, and analyzed data using SQL and Python.
- Drove all data-related aspects of complex accounting investigations—including data identification, extraction, and analysis—and extracted, transformed, and loaded several terabytes of structured data.
- Advised a global bank on data extraction and analytics procedures and developed and implemented an algorithm in MS SQL Server to identify intercompany trades and determine the ultimate external counterparty.
- Led a multinational development team to implement the algorithm and develop tools for the client to inquire about transactional data.
- Visualized and presented findings to senior litigators and the Queen's Counsel.
- Designed a recommendation model using item-based collaborative filtering algorithms and implemented the model on AWS using Apache Spark to run on millions of items.
- Analyzed data using SQL, Python Pandas, and Tableau and presented findings to legal counsel.
- Implemented methodology to reconcile front-office trades with risk consolidation data.
Experience
AI Model | Legal Contract Review Demo
http://huggingface.co/spaces/marshmellow77/contract-review/Contract review is the process of thoroughly reading a contract—to understand the rights and obligations of an individual or company signing it—and assessing the associated impact. It is widely viewed as one of the most repetitive and tedious jobs junior law firm associates must perform. It is also expensive and an inefficient use of a legal professional's skills. In this project, I demonstrate how AI can perform this task.
Blog and Code Repo | How to Build Your Own GPT-J Playground
http://towardsdatascience.com/how-to-build-your-own-gpt-j-playground-733f4f1246e5This app democratizes access to state-of-the-art NLP technology and significantly reduces the costs of using it.
Blog | Developing a Strategy Bot for an NGO with GPT-3
http://towardsdatascience.com/developing-a-strategy-bot-for-an-ngo-39cddf912ebaMy task was to create a fine-tuned custom GPT-3 model for an NGO to accomplish this goal. To achieve this, I first analyzed, cleaned, and prepared the more than 4,000 records that the customer provided as a potential training dataset. After diving deeper into the data, I identified potential features that could be used for training GPT-3. I prepared the dataset accordingly and also engineered the appropriate prompts for the model to maximize the likelihood of the model creating interesting strategies. I then trained GPT-3 using OpenAI's API. After a few iterations and testing the custom models with the NGO, I successfully created an NLP model that would generate interesting strategies from a short prompt mentioning a social problem. The model will be implemented by the customer to be used by future social entrepreneurs within their platform.
Blog and Code Repo | How to Use GPT-J for (Almost) Any NLP Task
http://towardsdatascience.com/how-to-use-gpt-j-for-almost-any-nlp-task-cb3ca8ff5826Blog and Code Repo | Building a Modular Reasoning, Knowledge, and Language (MRKL) System
http://medium.com/mlearning-ai/supercharging-large-language-models-with-langchain-1cac3c103b52Skills
Languages
Python
Tools
Amazon SageMaker, PyCharm
Paradigms
Data Science
Platforms
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Other
Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Amazon Machine Learning, Machine Learning Operations (MLOps), Natural Language Processing (NLP), Natural Language Understanding (NLU), Transformers, Hugging Face, OpenAI, Deep Learning, Stable Diffusion, GPT, Generative Pre-trained Transformers (GPT), Neural Networks, Deep Neural Networks, Large Language Models (LLMs), Language Models, Text Generation, Data Inference, Fine-tuning, Causal Inference, ChatGPT, Programming, Business, DeepSpeed, Proof of Concept (POC)
Libraries/APIs
PyTorch
Education
Master's Degree in Business Administration
London Business School - London, United Kingdom
Master's Degree in Physics and Computer Science
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich - Munich, Germany
Certifications
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
Amazon Web Services
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