Dr. Kevin Wesendrup

⚡ Now

AI Leader & Principal Data Scientist at pacemaker.ai by thyssenkrupp.

🧭 Path

• 2024 — nowPrincipal Data Scientist · pacemaker.ai by thyssenkrupp
• 2019 — 24Research Scientist · University of Münster
• 2013 — 19SAP Analytics & BI Engineer · TECE SE
• 2018Data Science Intern · 4flow, Berlin
• 2015Software Engineer Intern · Barry, Wales

🎓 Studied

🧠 Ph.D.Machine Learning · University of Münster

📊 M.Sc.Business Informatics · University of Münster

📘 B.A.Business Informatics · Westphalian University of Applied Sciences

🤖 CME295Transformers & Large Language Models · Stanford

📈 Selected work

• 16%

  Higher profit from a reinforcement-learning replenishment policy. Patent pending.

• 63k

  Misplanned truckloads removed per year at an automotive manufacturer.

• 18 → 5%

  Revenue forecast error, after rebuilding the pipeline end to end.

• 23%

  Fewer pharmacy stockouts across 2,500 stores.

• 15%

  Less unplanned downtime on a production line. ~50 machine-days a year.

• 2 / 10

  Second place in a forecasting bake-off against large consultancies.

🔬 Research

🛠️ Building

• 📉An autonomous trading floor — four LLMs with different investment philosophies, trading in parallel over MCP. The value investor came out ahead.
• 🐍A four-agent pipeline that turns plain English into a working Python app with tests. Thirteen of fifteen ran unmodified.
• 🐝Twenty agents on AutoGen and gRPC, passing startup ideas around to refine them.
• 💰Cut a third-party API bill from roughly $10k to $1k a month with a well-placed cache.