CV

My Curriculum Vitae about my professional experiences, academic background, and relevant activities.

Basics

Name Marius Becherer
Label Software Engineer | Data Scientist | System Architect
Email contact@mb-presents.info
Url https://mb-presents.info
Summary Software Engineer with 5+ years of experience and committed to solve complex, data-centric challenges in business environments at scale through innovative approaches. Recently, I designed and developed Generative AI solutions to generate complex project correspondence reports. Looking ahead, I aspire to be a lifelong learner who contributes to sustainable and impactful solutions using state-of-the-art technologies that drive measurable business success.

Work

  • 2024.07 - 2025.05
    Software Engineer
    Gold Coast City Council
    Led the design and implementation of a generative system and an automated workflow system to create software solutions for business issues. Provided technical consulting to other teams to enhance business processes.
    • Engineered an ETL pipeline using NLP techniques such as entity recognition and multi-label classification to extract metadata from project requests and proposals, resulting in standardized data models enriched with additional information.
    • Created a Generative AI Project Correspondence System using an agentic workflow with a RAG-based information retrieval system, leveraging Qdrant for vector search and PostgreSQL for structured information retrieval, reducing response time from 10 business days to one day.
    • Engineered agentic function tools for cost, time, and resource estimation using context-dependent project similarity measurements, achieving 93% higher accuracy than existing methods and introducing a confidentiality score.
    • Configured CI/CD pipelines for DevOps using GitLab to ensure automated and compliant deployment of the generative system to production readiness.
  • 2023.07 - 2023.09
    System Development Tutor (Part-Time)
    Griffith University
    Tutored two System Development workshops for up to 60 Bachelor and Master students. Demonstrated leadership abilities by guiding and mentoring student software engineering projects.
  • 2019.11 - 2021.02
    Technical Lead of Information Systems / Research Associate (Part-Time)
    University of New South Wales
    Investigated, conceptualized, designed, and implemented information systems for research projects as Technical Lead, focusing on the strategic development of ETL data pipelines to organize heterogeneous data.
    • Led four software engineers in developing a risk management tool integrating ML solutions, such as text mining and document classification, streamlining a highly manual auditing process from 14 weeks to less than 10 minutes.
    • Designed data models and information system to load extracted data and various data representations into the information system.
  • 2018.04 - 2019.02
    Software Engineer (Part-Time)
    SICK AG
    Optimized manufacturing processes spanning the full software development lifecycle, involving requirement engineering, system and UI design, data modeling, and applied artificial intelligence methodologies.
    • Conceptualized and implemented a real-time anomaly detection system for monitoring data streams of manufacturing processes, classified process conditions, and scheduled notifications.
    • Increased the utilization of the chip manufacturing production line from 19% up to 68%.
  • 2014.06 - 2017.09
    Software Engineer Trainee
    SICK AG
    Gained versatile expertise by completing multiple projects in software development, architecture, and deployment, while practicing SCRUM methodology with multiple teams.

Volunteer

  • 2023.04 - 2023.10

    Cadenabbia, Italy

    Organization Committee Member
    DEBEST Conference
    Contributed as part of the organization committee for the DEBEST conference to enable researchers to demonstrate how technology can support sustainable transformation for addressing present issues.
  • 2018.01 - 2020.12

    Prechtal, Germany

    Member of the Executive Board
    RVC Prechtal
    Served as a member of the executive board, contributing to the organization of the Paracycling Europacup 2018 and public relations.
  • 2016.01 - 2017.12

    Karlsruhe, Germany

    Deputy Chairman of Technical Faculty
    Student Representation Organsisation of Cooperative State University
    Served as Deputy Chairman of the Technical Faculty, contributing to leadership and organizational activities.
  • 2011.01 - 2019.12

    Elzach, Germany

    Certified Youth Group Leader
    KJG Elzach
    Organized and conducted weekly group meetings with youths aged 10-15, planned youth-focused entertainment events, local events, and an annual 12-day summer camp.
    • Organized and conducted weekly group meetings for youths aged 10-15.
    • Planned youth-focused entertainment events.
    • Organized local community events.
    • Managed an annual 12-day summer camp.

Education

  • 2021.02 - 2024.07

    Canberra, Australia

    Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Information Systems
    University of New South Wales
    Information Systems
    • My thesis proposed and implemented a trust computation system to determine the information authenticity in dynamic IoT networks. The novel solution improved the understanding of context in trust computation to enhance the initial bootstrapping and the trust inference stage, while increasing the trust convergence within the IoT network.
    • Received UNSW International Postgraduate HDR Scholarship & Cyber Security Cooperative Research Centre Top-Up Scholarship
    • Completed HDR Research at Top 20 University according to QS World University Rankings
  • 2018.02 - 2019.08

    Furtwangen, Germany

    Master of Science (High Distinction)
    Furtwangen University
    Computer Science
    • Thesis: Agent-based simulation for testing vehicle-on-demand services
    • Received PROMOS scholarship to conduct master research abroad at KAIST, Daejeon, South Korea
  • 2014.10 - 2017.09

    Karlsruhe, Germany

    Bachelor of Engineering (Distinction)
    Baden-Württemberg Cooperative State University Karlsruhe
    Information Technology
    • Thesis: Augmented Reality-Assisted Manual Manufacturing for Guidance and Verification
    • Conducted Internship at the research and development department at SICK IVP in Linkoeping, Sweden

Awards

Certificates

Certified Instructor
Industrie- und Handelskammer Karlsruhe 2017

Languages

German
Native speaker
English
Fluent
Italian
Basic

Interests

Programming Languages
Python
Pandas
NumPy
PyTorch
sci-kit-learn
Tensorflow
Java
Go
SQL
Bash
Software Development
Microservices
Design Patterns
Internet of Things
Cybersecurity
Blockchain
Software Development Tools
Docker
Git
GitLab CI/CD
Information Management Systems
MongoDB
MS Power Suite
ELK
PostgreSQL
Qdrant
RabbitMQ
Mosquitto
MS SQL
Hobbies
Outdoor Activities
Hiking
Mountainbiking
CrossFit
Cooking
Diving