Nils Blum-Oeste

Agentic document intelligence for real-estate due diligence, at an early-stage stealth startup: an LLM pipeline that reasons over deal documents and cites its evidence. I own the engineering - the AI and the platform. AI side: evidence-cited reasoning, verification of outputs against source documents, human-in-the-loop conflict resolution whose decisions are event-sourced and feed evals and agent

Co-founded Enertia to build an intelligence layer for commercial-building energy data. As CTO and sole engineer I built the product zero-to-one: a multi-tenant energy-management platform for a design partnership with a global real-estate firm - meter-data ingestion, a data-quality engine, LLM invoice intelligence (evaluation-driven: five extraction approaches benchmarked on labeled bills, 91% fiel

Selected as one of 20 from over 1,000 applicants. Exploring and validating high-impact venture opportunities that make the world significantly better — running validation sprints, conducting deep market and competitive analysis, and stress-testing ideas with founders, operators, and domain experts.

Areas of exploration:
• AI infrastructure & agentic systems
• Climate tech & energy
• Developer too

Initially led multiple engineering teams through Engineering Managers; a late-2024 reorg expanded my scope to the whole of product engineering - AI Research Engineers and core AI work alongside backend, frontend, and data engineering - in a flat structure: 30+ engineers reporting to me directly as sole people-manager, partnering with and coaching the per-team Technical Leads.

Key contributions:
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Led the AI Platform teams at Phaidra, building state-of-the-art reinforcement-learning agents that autonomously control mission-critical industrial cooling - data centres (double-digit energy savings) and AI factories (work featured in an NVIDIA GTC keynote).

Key contributions:
• Built and directly managed 3 of 9 engineering teams from scratch
• Grew from leading a single AI team to multi-team le

Founded and led Pitch's first AI team, driving innovation in AI-powered content creation features for the modern presentation platform. Combined hands-on engineering with team leadership, product management, and cross-functional stakeholder communication.

Key contributions:
• Built the AI team from scratch to a cross-functional team of 7
• Initiated and delivered novel AI features for content cre

Core engineer in a fast-growing startup, building the real-time collaboration infrastructure that powered Pitch's multiplayer presentation editor. Designed and implemented synchronization and conflict resolution mechanisms for complex, nested presentation slide data across distributed clients - ensuring consistency and responsiveness as the user base scaled rapidly.

Key contributions:
• Engineere

Independent consultant delivering data engineering and backend solutions for clients across energy, research, and enterprise software.

Selected projects:
• Designed and built a probabilistic programming system to analyze and predict energy consumption for smart home products
• Architected enterprise data integration and exchange infrastructure
• Engineering on a SaaS platform for reproducible res

Led data engineering for this climate finance think tank, building the data infrastructure powering climate risk analysis for financial products. Introduced and managed the complete lifecycle for data warehouse initiatives.

Key contributions:
• Built data warehouse and engineering capabilities as core components for climate risk analysis products
• Led a project associating physical climate risks

Built and operated data infrastructure serving millions of active mobile gaming users. Delivered business intelligence solutions and shaped systems design and agile processes.

Key contributions:
• Migrated and extended data infrastructure based on Kafka and Exasol
• Provided custom BI solutions to internal stakeholders
• Led systems design initiatives and coordinated cross-team collaboration
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Full stack Web Development for Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) solutions, working with insurances and partner companies in the public health sector. Establishing state of the art, lean and high quality solutions while ensuring compatibility with existing industry standards.

Hands-on software development, analytics implementations and consulting in challenging projects ranging from startups to international corporations, including team lead and product development roles.

Consulting, Design and Implementation of Web Frontend and Backend systems, often for mobile applications

Driving agile development in an internationally distributed team, iterating quickly on a complex and innovative crowdfunding web platform. Working closely with high profile founders.

Cross platform app development with HTML5 technologies for mobile and web commerce.

Experiments and quantitative modelling of physical and chemical processes during volcanic eruptions, various lectures, talks and publications.

Web and Mobile Development, established good coding practices and agile methodologies in an early stage startup, integrating eCommerce solutions with social media.

Quality assurance as well as assistance in research and development of new refractories. Applying particle size analysis and x-ray diffraction methods for phase identification and quantification. Producing experimental charges of refractories in the lab.

- Foundations of Artificial Intelligence
- Deep Learning
- Natural Language Processing

"Entgasung und Kristallisation beim Aufstieg dazitischer Magmen zur Erdoberfläche"

Multi-disciplinary research, investigating physical and chemical processes during experimentally simulated volcanic eruptions.

Doctoral research on degassing and crystallization during ascent of dacitic magmas, involving experimental simulations of volcanic eruptions.

Water diffusion in phonolitic melts.

Bachelor's thesis on water diffusion in phonolitic melts.