Portrait of Nils Heil

Nils Heil, Hallo

Data Technology Design Music Sports · Zurich (SUI) & Frankfurt (GER)

I build data driven products & design them. I love music, check out my playlists. I do sports (many different ones).

Experience

Applied AI Engineer

  • Turning business challenges into scalable AI & agentic solutions on the Celonis Process Intelligence Platform, owning the full lifecycle from pre-sales discovery and prototyping through proof-of-value delivery and adoption.

Engagement Lead · Implementation Strategist

  • Engagement Lead for projects and use case deployments in the Life & Health department of a major Swiss reinsurance company.
  • Set up Release Management processes, Data Quality frameworks and Access Management within Foundry.
  • Deployed a Portfolio Analytics application with 500+ users.

Solution Architect

  • Implemented business execution applications for the Accounts Payable process, generating $3m of value.
  • Piloted new features of the duplicate checker application with the product team.
  • Built a production planning app predicting vehicle completion times and won the company-wide top product innovation award.

Intern, Business Transformation & Innovation

  • Built sales, pipeline and team workload reports with Power BI.
  • Set up a product management and innovation process for a leading public insurance company.

Academics

M.Sc. Computer Science (Thesis)

Thesis on implicit personalization of large language models, accepted at EMNLP 2024 Findings. Read the paper ↗

M.Sc. Information Systems

Focus on machine learning & NLP. GPA 1.8.

Exchange Semester, Information Systems

Focus on NLP & innovation management. GPA 1.0.

B.Sc. Industrial Engineering

Focus on information systems & digital services. Thesis on quantitative comparison of explainable AI for neural networks.

Projects

EMNLP 2024 Paper

My ETH Zurich master thesis on implicit personalization of large language models, published as a paper accepted at EMNLP 2024 Findings.

Bloomberg Trading Platform

Hackathon project: a trading platform with a smart matching algorithm for transactions, controlled through a Minecraft in-game interface and AWS Lambda.

Analytics Cup, 3rd of 119 teams

Classification model predicting the success of sales offers for smart infrastructure.

Skills

Coding Python · SQL · TypeScript · PQL · Java · R
Technologies React · PyTorch · PySpark · pandas · Keras · Node · Express · Git · Azure · AWS Lambda · Foundry
Certifications Foundry Application Developer & Data Engineer · MS Azure AI Design Trainer
Languages German (native) · English (C2) · French (B1) · Italian (A1)

Strengths

Gallup's CliftonStrengths assessment identifies a person's five most dominant talent themes out of 34. These are mine: the patterns that shape how I work, decide and connect with people.

CliftonStrengths® Top 5 (Gallup). Click a card to expand.

Beyond work

When I'm not working with data, you'll find me on the tennis court, football pitch, in the mountain, running or cycling; follow along on Strava. I am passionate about music and have you covered with playlists for special moments & daily living. Check it out on Spotify or Apple Music, or even here SoundCloud.

Eintracht Frankfurt

Worked with

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