NilsGierke

Led the technical delivery of Polaris, a six-figure agentic AI initiative for external-services procurement, and formally assumed the Technical Product Owner role during the internship.

• Set the technical direction and translated requirements from two Business Product Owners into system architecture and implementation.
• Coordinated a three-person technical team while developing RAG, document-processing and agentic workflows hands-on.
• Presented to senior business and technology leaders, delivered the MVP and handed over the project as limited user testing began.

Selected through an internal referral for a specialised data taskforce addressing cross-functional challenges in Sales Operations.

• Identified Data Lakehouse use cases and translated business requirements into technical solution designs.
• Delivered decision-support and data-quality monitoring solutions, informed by analysis of operational workflows and pain points.

Designed, built and deployed a Java framework for frontend and backend testing, taking it from initial architecture to a working automation solution.

• Automated complex scenarios previously handled by specialist manual testers, reducing reliance on manual testing and identifying test-coverage gaps.