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Lokesh Sharma

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Senior Knowledge Graph Engineer at Elevait who built an ontology engineering practice that cut modeling time from two months to three weeks.

Germany
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At Elevait, I built an iterative ontology engineering practice that cut data-modeling time from about two months to three weeks and accelerated customer onboarding. I designed modular semantic models for energy, finance, and construction, and led knowledge graph construction across customer instances.

I also developed dm-foundry, a Python toolkit for ontology releases, RDF ingestion, validation, and GraphDB deployments. Extending quality gates with SHACL business rules helped drive silent pipeline failures to zero.

At NEC Laboratories Europe, I contributed to temporal knowledge graph forecasting research, filed three patents, and built entity-linking pipelines for an operational knowledge graph used by law-enforcement agencies. Across my work, I focus on semantic foundations that make AI outputs more reliable, traceable, and grounded.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

EL
Current

Senior Knowledge Graph Engineer

Elevait

Dec 2023 - Present (2 years 11 months)

Built an agile ontology engineering practice, cutting data-modeling time from ~2 months to 3 weeks. Designed modular ontology architecture and led KG construction end to end, holding accountability for 8+ customer instances.

Ontology Design
Resource Description Framework (RDF)
SHACL
SPARQLPythonGraphDbDockerCI CDAgile
NE

AI Research Engineer

NEC Laboratories Europe

Jun 2022 - Dec 2023 (1 year 6 months)

Filed 3 patents and co-authored research papers on Temporal Knowledge Graph forecasting. Built entity-linking data pipelines and developed AI models, including GNNs, with dockerized inference.

Temporal Knowledge Graphs
GNN
Entity Linking
PythonDockerMLFlowResearch
BA

Data Scientist

BASF

Dec 2021 - Jun 2022 (6 months)

Integrated labeled property graph schemas into Azure data ingestion pipelines, improving shipment-tracking/query performance on 10M+ records. Extended patent-document extraction pipeline with NLP and entity linking.

NE

AI Research Intern

NEC Laboratories Europe

Jun 2021 - Oct 2021 (4 months)

Benchmarked state-of-the-art GNN architectures for TKG forecasting on 5 large datasets through systematic experimentation tracked in TensorBoard.

RG

Data Analyst

Reifen Gundlach

Nov 2019 - Apr 2021 (1 year 5 months)

Built ETL pipelines consolidating various data sources to automate manual workflows and generated descriptive analytics reports. Developed RESTful APIs and interactive BI dashboards for 800+ sales representatives.

TR

Business Analyst

Tredence

Jun 2017 - Mar 2019 (1 year 9 months)

Built and deployed classification and clustering models forecasting customer churn and portfolio financial risk. Delivered data-driven M&A deal analytics including sampling design, A/B testing, and executive dashboards.

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

OA

Ontotext Academy

GraphDB Knowledge Graph Engineer, Knowledge Graph Engineering

Completed GraphDB Knowledge Graph Engineer certification in February 2025.

OA

Ontotext Academy

Ontotext GraphDB Developer, GraphDB Development

Completed Ontotext GraphDB Developer certification in February 2025.

NA

Neo4j Graph Academy

Neo4j Certified Professional, Graph Databases

Completed Neo4j Certified Professional certification in November 2023.

Universität Koblenz-Landau logoUK

Universität Koblenz-Landau

Master of Science, Web and Data Science

2019 - 2021

M.Sc. in Web and Data Science with coursework in Network Theory, Big Data, AI, Machine Learning, and Semantic Web.

Visvesvaraya Technological University logoVU

Visvesvaraya Technological University

Bachelor of Engineering, Instrumentation Technology

2012 - 2016

B.E. in Instrumentation Technology with coursework in Microprocessors, Embedded Systems, Neural Networks, and Arduino.

Availability

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Location

Germany

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Salary expectations

90k+ EUR

Job categories

Knowledge Graph Engineer
AI Research EngineerData ScientistData Analyst
Business Analyst

Skills

Knowledge Graphs
Ontology Design
Ontology Governance
Resource Description Framework (RDF)
RDF OWL
OWL
SKOS
SHACL
SPARQL
Temporal Knowledge Graphs
Applied Machine LearningDeep Learninggraph neural networksRepresentation LearningEntity Resolution

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