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AI & Digital Transformation · from process analysis to working AI tools

Alexey Berezka

I bring AI into industrial work - and build my own in public.

At Kyocera's automotive and industrial unit the job is in-house consulting plus engineering: first interviews and process maps with the people who do the work, then the AI tools that fit, whether Microsoft 365 Copilot, Claude, OpenAI or something else. Before that, over three years of safety-critical automotive software at ZF, where code ships only when it holds.

5+
Years in industry
200+
AI agents orchestrated
~95%
LLM cost cut
7,964
Files in RAG index

AI systems I've built and run in production

Not demos. Each of these runs on my own infrastructure, every day.

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Runs 24/7 in production

JARVIS - Multi-Agent AI Operating System

Problem Generic chatbots don't act - they answer. I wanted an assistant that plans and executes real multi-step tasks across my tools.
Approach A self-hosted system with voice in/out (Whisper), email, calendar and smart-home tools, and a meta-orchestrator that routes work across 200+ specialist agents - autonomously planning, delegating and executing.
Python Claude API Whisper MCP Docker
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~95% lower model cost

DeepSignal - Autonomous LLM Pipeline

Problem LLM-driven market analysis is powerful but expensive and fragile - easy to overspend, hard to trust.
Approach An end-to-end pipeline that ingests market & news data, runs LLM analysis and publishes signals on schedule with zero manual touch - a vendor-neutral model adapter plus a shadow-eval production gate, hardened by backtesting and a 54-agent adversarial review.
Python LLMOps Eval gating Telegram API
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7,964 files · sub-second

Hybrid RAG Knowledge System

Problem Keyword search misses meaning; pure vector search hallucinates context. Neither alone is good enough to ground an LLM.
Approach Retrieval-Augmented Generation over 7,964 source files (78,764 chunks), combining dense embeddings (bge-m3), sparse FTS5 and a cross-encoder reranker - served by an always-on daemon and re-indexed every hour for fast, grounded, citable answers.
RAG bge-m3 FTS5 Reranker
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Vendor-portable stack

Self-Hosted AI Infrastructure & MCP

Problem Lock-in to one cloud or one model vendor is a business risk, not just a technical one.
Approach A full production stack on Hetzner - Docker, nginx, systemd, CI/CD (GitHub Actions), FastAPI services and custom Model Context Protocol servers - designed so the LLM backend and data stay portable by default.
Docker nginx systemd CI/CD FastAPI
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30 languages · live

Web Design & Development

Problem A personal site has to read natively in every language it serves and still load fast on a cheap phone.
Approach This site: Hugo in 30 languages with native-reading copy and SEO per language, a self-hosted contact API and analytics, and a build check before every deploy.
Hugo i18n SEO Nginx

🔬 KIT Research - AI Adoption Decision Model

My master's thesis at KIT (submitted 09/2026, degree expected 10/2026): a Multi-Criteria Decision Model that tells manufacturing SMEs where AI image processing is actually worth adopting - and where it isn't. Built on expert interviews, quantitative analysis and AHP modelling, it replaces gut-feel AI decisions with a repeatable method. Earlier theses: stratospheric-balloon gondola electronics (Ing., UWB Pilsen 2021); multi-scale phase rangefinding for spacecraft tracking (B.Sc., RTU 2018).

KIT HECTOR School MCDM Industry 4.0 AI Adoption SME Research
📋Expert Interviews
🎤Quantitative Analysis
📈MCDM / AHP

From factory floor to AI deployment

AI Engineer - Digital Transformation May 2026 - present

Kyocera Automotive and Industrial Solutions

Dietzenbach, Germany

Focus: in-house consulting - process analysis and interviews, AI tool evaluation, governance and adoption - plus building Copilot agents and flows. Working student 05-09/2026, full-time since 10/2026.

AI Adoption Digital Transformation Industry 4.0
Executive M.Sc. programme 2024 - 2026

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

KIT HECTOR School

Executive master's programme at KIT HECTOR School (90 ECTS, ~20 months), KIT's technology business school for working engineers. Thesis submitted 09/2026, degree expected 10/2026. The curriculum mixes engineering depth (digital platforms, AI, software, security) with management breadth (strategy, decisions, finance, innovation), with a specialisation in Autonomous Robotics - smart manufacturing and Industry 4.0. It changed how I think about technology decisions: not "what's technically possible" but "what's the right thing given strategy, capability and risk."

Strategy Information Systems Decision Theory Digital Transformation
Embedded Software Developer 2019 - 2023

ZF Pilsen

Commercial Vehicles Division - Tier 1 Automotive Supplier

Shipped embedded software for production ECUs in a regulated, safety-critical environment. Cut validation cycles 25% by automating HiL testing pipelines.

C/C++ HiL/SiL Jenkins Git CAN
Engineer 2017 - 2018

Typhoon Research & Production Association

Aviation Weather Systems

Worked on measurement systems for aviation weather monitoring, in a regulated environment where the documentation had to be exact.

PCB Design MATLAB Electronics
Data Analytics Engineer 2016 - 2017

Stream

Analytics & Data

Built predictive models for customer segmentation and automated reporting pipelines - eliminating 40% of manual analyst workload.

SAS Python SQL ETL

Technology I work with

AI & Machine Learning
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Agentic AI / Multi-Agent
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RAG / Vector Embeddings
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Prompt Engineering
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LLMOps / Eval
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MCP Protocol
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Claude Agent SDK
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GPT-5 / Gemini 2.5
🏠
Ollama / Local LLM
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Whisper STT
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EU AI Act / GDPR
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MCDM / AHP
Engineering & Development
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Python
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C / C++
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SQL
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CAN / Embedded
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SAS / ETL
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MATLAB
Infrastructure & DevOps
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Docker
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Nginx
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Hetzner VPS
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Git / CI-CD
⚡
n8n / Automation
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Telegram API

Most AI work stops at the slide deck. I build it into the daily work - and stay until it holds.

I'm Alexey. I work on AI and digital transformation at Kyocera Automotive and Industrial Solutions in Dietzenbach: working student 05-09/2026, full-time since 10/2026. Most of the job is in-house consulting: I talk to the people who do the work, map how it really runs, check which AI tools fit and help set the rules for using them. Then I build with whatever fits - Microsoft 365 Copilot, Claude, OpenAI or another AI tool - where it earns its place. In my own time I build AI in public - a personal assistant that wires together Claude, OpenAI and Perplexity, ML research on trading signals, and this site. All of it runs on my own servers, every day.

At KIT I wrote my master's thesis on how manufacturers actually adopt AI: a decision model for AI-based image processing in manufacturing SMEs, built on expert interviews and real decision criteria rather than vendor hype. I submitted it in September 2026; the degree is expected in October 2026. It keeps my work honest about what AI can and can't deliver.

Before AI I wrote safety-critical automotive software at ZF for over three years, and before that worked on aviation measurement systems and data analytics. In those fields nothing ships until it holds under real conditions. That's the bar I bring now: AI that survives production, not just the demo. Off-screen you'll find me in the gym, on the road, or running the next experiment - in four languages (EN · RU · DE · CZ).

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Based in Mannheim, Germany
Education B.Sc. RTU · Ing. UWB Plzeň · M.Sc. at KIT, degree expected 10/2026
Research How manufacturers adopt AI (master's thesis at KIT)
Languages RU native · EN C1 · CZ C1 · DE B2
Status AI & digital transformation at Kyocera · building AI in public

What keeps me sharp

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Gym & discipline - training most days.

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Photography - I shoot and share on Instagram.

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3D printing & design - functional prints and STL models I publish on MakerWorld.

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Languages - Russian, English, German and Czech; Italian next.

I write down what I build, most nights

Vibes per Token is my build-in-public journal on AI, agents and automation. What shipped, what broke, what it cost. English and Russian on Telegram.

See the journal

An engineer who speaks both languages

I sit between the server room and the boardroom. I can write the code, secure the infrastructure and design the data pipeline - and then explain to leadership, in plain business terms, what it costs, what it returns and where the risk is. AI built on EU data boundaries, with GDPR and the EU AI Act treated as design constraints, not afterthoughts.

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Builds in production
Everything on this page runs on my own servers, daily - not in a demo sandbox.
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Responsible & EU-ready
GDPR, EU AI Act and data-sovereignty considered from day one, not bolted on.
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Vendor-neutral
Portable stacks - data and logic never get locked to one model or cloud.

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Based in Mannheim, Germany