Senior AI Engineer · Agentic Systems · AI Products

I build reliable agentic systems and AI-driven products.

Production GenAI engineer and independent product builder with more than 10 years across AI, data and growth. I turn ambiguous problems into useful, observable systems that ship.

Hamburg, Germany · eligible to work across the EU and Switzerland

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Dominik Cichon
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Experience and customers

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Selected work

Products with users, workflows and outcomes.

A focused selection of production systems and independent products spanning agentic AI, image generation, growth automation and operations.

Agency Web Manager media-compliance dashboard01

Agentic AI · Insurance

Agency Web Manager

A multi-tenant intelligence platform for distributed insurance agencies. Its agentic assistant answers questions, turns user-reported bugs into GitHub issues and feeds an AI-triaged notification workflow.

First customer: ERGO Versicherung

Agentic AINext.jsCloudflareD1R2GitHub Actions
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ImmoBildKI bulk real-estate image optimisation product02

Image agents · Growth automation

ImmoBildKI

Bulk real-estate image optimisation with guided AI editing, batch processing, subscriptions and automated LinkedIn and Facebook publishing.

Production SaaS · Made in Germany

Next.jsGeminiOpenAICloudflareStripe
Open ImmoBildKI
Quest Hero outdoor treasure-hunt game03

Generative content · Commerce

Quest Hero

An outdoor treasure-hunt game with AI-assisted story, image and video generation plus scheduled Instagram and Facebook publishing.

110 games sold · 450+ AI-generated social posts published

Next.jsGenerative AIImage & videoSocial APIs
Play Quest Hero
Illustrated children’s books created with the AI Book Generator04

Long-form agents · Publishing

AI Book Generator

An end-to-end generation workflow that creates complete, illustrated children’s books ready for publishing and sale.

256 books sold

PythonLLMsImage generationPublishing automation
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Automated Bitcoin market content published on X05

Market data · Content automation

Bitcoin Auto-Publisher

An automated Bitcoin publishing pipeline that turns Kraken market data into timely posts on X without manual intervention.

Live autonomous publishing

PythonKraken APILLMsX APIScheduling
View on X
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Operations · Auditable workflows

VERY-LOUD

An end-to-end operations platform for event-insurance brokers, connecting customers, venues, registrations, cover, claims, invoices and documents.

One auditable operational workflow

Next.jsCloudflareD1R2PDF automation

Capabilities

From prototype to observable production system.

Agentic AI & LLMs

PydanticAILangGraphDSPyTool useRAGVercel AI SDKCloudflare AI SDK

Production AI

Arize PhoenixTracingEvalsCost monitoringError monitoringLatency monitoring

Engineering

PythonTypeScriptNext.jsCloudflareGCPAzurePostgreSQLD1R2

Growth & Data

ExperimentationLifecycle analyticsContent automationSocial APIsBigQuerydbtDagster

Experience

AI engineering grounded in product and growth.

Production GenAI at OTTO, startup execution at Everstores, cloud ML at bonprix and commercial analytics at Google and XING.

Jan 2024 — Present

OTTO

Senior Machine Learning Engineer

Building and operating production GenAI workflows for partner support.

  • Reduced production incidents by 20% through workflow hardening, tracing and operational controls.
  • Reduced cost per chat request from €0.06 to below €0.02 by simplifying workflows and adopting newer models.
  • Implemented Arize Phoenix tracing plus structured cost, error and latency monitoring for agentic workflows.

Feb 2023 — Dec 2023

Everstores

Senior Data Engineer ML

Worked at startup pace across ML foundations, forecasting, GenAI and commercial data workflows.

  • Built reusable ML foundations with Vertex AI, DVC and Kubeflow.
  • Developed supply-chain, revenue-forecasting and acquisition-price workflows.
  • Integrated AI chat into brand-management dashboards and built B2B growth-data pipelines.

Jun 2020 — Jan 2023

bonprix

Expert Data Developer

Modernised recommender systems and ML delivery on Google Cloud.

  • Developed and deployed a new webshop recommendation model.
  • Migrated legacy Hadoop and PySpark workloads to Vertex AI and BigQuery.
  • Designed ML CI/CD and enabled data-science teams on the new platform.

Aug 2019 — Jun 2020

Google

Analytical Consultant

Helped major advertisers turn measurement and experimentation into growth decisions.

  • Measured campaign incrementality and video impact.
  • Identified market opportunities and automated customer-facing analytics.

Oct 2014 — Jul 2019

XING

Manager User Analytics

Built ML, experimentation and lifecycle analytics for news and social products.

  • Optimised newsletter lifecycle performance with ML and A/B testing.
  • Built classifiers, tracking concepts, data pipelines and automated dashboards.

Education

M.A. Management & Entrepreneurship

Information Systems · Management & Controlling

Leuphana University of Lüneburg · 2012–2014

Optional deep dive

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Let’s build

Looking for someone who ships AI that works?

I am based in Hamburg and eligible to work across the EU and Switzerland.

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Hamburg · AI · Products · Growth