# Lokesh Sharma

Lokesh Sharma is a remote worker on Himalayas, Senior Knowledge Graph Engineer at Elevait, based in Germany.

Source: https://himalayas.app/@lokeshsharma2

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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.
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| Detail | Value |
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| Availability | Looking for a job |
| Location | Germany |
| Authorized to work in | Germany |
| Salary expectations | 90k+ EUR |
| Job categories | Knowledge Graph Engineer, AI Research Engineer, Data Scientist, Data 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 Learning, Deep Learning, graph neural networks, Representation Learning, Entity Resolution |
| Website | https://lokesharma.com |

## About

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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.
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## Experience

### Senior Knowledge Graph Engineer (current)

Elevait. Dec 2023 - Present

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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.
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Skills: Ontology-Design, Resource-Description-Framework-(RDF), SHACL, SPARQL, Python, GraphDb, Docker, CI-CD, Agile

### AI Research Engineer

NEC Laboratories Europe. Jun 2022 - Dec 2023

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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.
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Skills: Temporal-Knowledge-Graphs, GNN, Entity-Linking, Python, Docker, MLFlow, Research

### Data Scientist

BASF. Dec 2021 - Jun 2022

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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.
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Skills: Neo4j, Azure, NLP, Entity-Linking, Python, Data-Pipelines

### AI Research Intern

NEC Laboratories Europe. Jun 2021 - Oct 2021

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Benchmarked state-of-the-art GNN architectures for TKG forecasting on 5 large datasets through systematic experimentation tracked in TensorBoard.
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Skills: GNN, Tensorboard, Experimentation, Python

### Data Analyst

Reifen Gundlach. Nov 2019 - Apr 2021

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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.
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Skills: ETL, REST-APIs, Tableau, BI-dashboards, Data-Analysis

### Business Analyst

Tredence. Jun 2017 - Mar 2019

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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.
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Skills: Classification, Clustering, A-B-Testing, Data-Analysis, Dashboarding

## Education

### Ontotext Academy

GraphDB Knowledge Graph Engineer, Knowledge Graph Engineering

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Completed GraphDB Knowledge Graph Engineer certification in February 2025.
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### Ontotext Academy

Ontotext GraphDB Developer, GraphDB Development

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Completed Ontotext GraphDB Developer certification in February 2025.
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### Neo4j Graph Academy

Neo4j Certified Professional, Graph Databases

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Completed Neo4j Certified Professional certification in November 2023.
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### Universität Koblenz-Landau

Master of Science, Web and Data Science. 2019 - 2021

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

Bachelor of Engineering, Instrumentation Technology. 2012 - 2016

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

- Tableau
- GitHub
- PostgreSQL
- MongoDB
- Neo4j
- Python
- Rust
- PyTorch
- MLflow
- FastAPI
- Linux
- Docker
- Uvicorn
- GraphDb
- Polars
- Pydantic
- Cursor
- RDF
- OWL
- SHACL
- SPARQL

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