Balun Energy
CTO of a Viennese Startup making world's best wind power forecasts with AI. ~3mio€² in funding, forecasting for 20%¹ of Austria's wind capacity.
accepting new projects!
Data Science / AI Consultant, ML Researcher, ex-CTO
Prioritise the right use‑cases, build bespoke models, and set up pipelines that scale. Let's turn your ideas into outcomes.
Get in touchAbout Me
Over a decade of shipping data projects; I bring a pragmatic, outcomes-first approach and love a good challenge.
Deep experience in energy markets, AI weather forecasting, and manufacturing, but also eager to bring that toolkit to new domains. I help teams reduce uncertainty and ship with confidence.
Services: let's put your data to work
Project & Strategy Consulting
- Identify high‑impact problems, scope them with clear success metrics
- Prioritise use-cases by value, complexity, and risk.
- Set roadmap with success criteria and realistic KPIs.
- Assess data readiness (privacy, access, quality).
Machine Learning R&D
- Quickly establish strong baselines and PoCs.
- Select the right algorithms for the task from {time-series, computer vision, NLP, tabular, etc.}.
- Turn research papers into bleeding-edge performance products
- Build MVP models with your data; evaluated against metrics (offline/backtests/A/B).
- Optimize for reliability/robustness/scalability; add explainability & guardrails.
Data & MLOps Pipeline Setup
- Implement robust ETL with traceability.
- Build testable, reproducible CI/CD‑enabled pipelines
- Deploy with batch or high-frequency data streams at scale.
- Monitor quality, drift, performance. Add retraining if necessary
Projects and Success Stories
A selection of (non-NDA) projects
DailyLauncher
A customizable new‑tab experience that lets you design your own start page with drag‑and‑drop widgets.
Energy Forecasting for European Steel Manufacturer
Transforming energy consumption forecasting for one of Europe's leading steel manufacturers. In just days, I developed a proof-of-concept that achieved 97% accuracy for day-ahead predictions, enabling optimized electricity trading.
Creative Coding
A collection of generative art pieces exploring geometry, randomness and emergence using Processing.
Rail Cargo Austria Wagon Planning
Digitalising wagon allocation for a pan‑European rail freight leader. I worked with Rail Cargo Austria and research partners to turn a manual planning process into a data‑driven system that anticipates uncertainties in demand and generates optimal wagon plans within minutes.
MARLAnts
A multi‑agent reinforcement learning experiment where simulated ants learn to cooperatively build towers.
Lego Technic Mars Rover
A fully remote‑controlled 2.7 kg rover built from scratch with 11 motors, pneumatics and realistic functions.
Ricotta and Brunost
A kitchen experiment in making fresh ricotta cheese and turning the leftover whey into sweet brunost.
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