Felix Schelling
03.09.1995 · Rosenheim · Germany
Software Developer · AI Engineer
German (native) · English (fluent) · Spanish (basic)
felixschelling.com ↗AI Engineer and Software Developer with 5+ years of experience specializing in reinforcement learning applications for industrial optimization problems. Proven track record of developing innovative solutions for complex engineering challenges. Combining technical expertise with entrepreneurial experience to bridge the gap between AI research and practical industrial applications.
Professional Experience
2025 — now
AI Solution Engineer at Meggle
- Maintain and develop MeggleGPT, a company-internal chatbot deployed on Azure Kubernetes, including RAG retrieval and large-scale ingestion of internal company knowledge via a Databricks pipeline
- Developed a demand forecasting POC and MVP using machine learning, with a full MLOps pipeline including fully automated model retraining and dashboards deployed as web apps in Databricks
- Developed a specification recommender from customer specifications within Databricks, deployed as a web app on Azure
- Kubernetes
- Azure
- Databricks
- RAG
- Machine Learning
- LLM
2024 — 2025
Research Assistant at TH Rosenheim
- Designed and implemented an open source reinforcement learning framework for solving job shop scheduling problems (GitHub ↗)
- Trained state-of-the-art models in a distributed training environment
- Integrated trained models into a real-world factory lab environment (Lab ↗)
- Academic Research
- Reinforcement Learning
- Dash
- SQL
- Optuna
- Sphinx
- Pytest
2023 — 2025
Co-Founder & CTO at Advanced Additive
- Prototyped a reinforcement learning-based algorithm for pathfinding under domain-specific constraints for 3D printing slicers
- Designed a heuristic algorithm to optimize the density of 3D printed parts utilizing a variable extrusion width
- Deployed a scalable containerized web app with user management as an alpha release for customers
- Managed diverse technical collaborators, including freelancers and students, for the startup
- Project Management
- Reinforcement Learning
- Numeric Optimization
- Unsupervised Learning
- SQL
- FastAPI
- Docker
- Redis
- Celery
- Dask
- CI/CD
2021 — 2023
Career Break
- Completed a two-year bike journey from Argentina to Alaska
2019 — 2021
Software Engineer at Krones
- Designed and implemented a reinforcement learning model for solving a decision problem for a delta robot in a palletizing process (Video ↗)
- Integrated the model into a web app
- Validated and documented the solution
- Software Design
- Reinforcement Learning
- Python
- PyTorch
- gRPC
- Scrum
- Git
Education
2020
Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering at TH Rosenheim
- Completed thesis on automated parameter generation for a delta robot using a reinforcement learning model at Krones ↗ Grade 1.1
- Developed machine learning models for time series prediction of household oven usage in a voluntary project at BSH / Bosch-Siemens ↗ Grade 1.0