David Bauer

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I ship supply-chain optimization software, AI agents, and the infrastructure they run on.

About

I'm Engineering Manager/CTO at Riverbit, where I lead a pharmaceutical supply-chain optimization platform — and I still write code: the forecasting engine, the CI/CD, the AI agents.

Psychology interests me enough that I did an MBA in Sociology & Psychology. I own seven motorcycles. I've experimented with crypto and stock trading — including losing money, which taught me more than the wins did.

On the AI side, I run self-hosted open-weight models and build agent infrastructure — memory systems, MCP servers, multi-agent coordination — to understand what these systems can really do.

Engineering Manager / CTO — Riverbit

  • Leading engineering for a pharmaceutical supply-chain optimization platform (modular .NET 8, ~1,500 tests)
  • Built the demand-forecasting engine — ~100k series, Croston/TSB, walk-forward backtested
  • Designed SSH-less click-to-deploy CI/CD across 5 servers with Ansible + GitLab
  • Self-hosted observability (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki) behind a zero-exposed-ports tunnel
  • Embedded an MCP server + Claude assistant into the product

QA team lead

  • Unifying processes and tools across the company
  • Conducting mobile testing utilizing Appium to ensure application functionality and reliability.
  • Employing Jira for data mining and reporting with the objective of enhancing transparency across teams.
  • Establishing and managing Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) processes to streamline development and deployment workflows (e.g., implementation of SonarQube).
  • Setting and monitoring performance objectives for QA engineers to promote professional growth and project excellence.
  • Implementing Language Model (LLM)-based AI for generating Slack chat summaries, enhancing team communication and documentation.

Full Stack Engineer

  • Developing and maintaining web for odds betting - PHP, JavaScript, React
  • Rewriting PHP code to GO
  • Developing new Go components
  • Learning/practicing scrum/agile methodologies
  • Monitoring - APM, ELK stack

Senior PHP Programmer

  • Data mining and analysis
  • Predictive analytics
  • Supply chain optimization

Software Architect (PHP)

  • Developing Extensions for a Logistics Application
  • Big Data Optimization
  • Computation Orchestration and Clustering
  • REST API Implementation
  • Data Modeling for Reporting in PowerBI
  • CI/CD in GitLab
  • Unit Testing and Consistent Testing Implementation
  • Leadership of a Small Development Team
  • Process Management and Mini-Trainings Across the Company

Developer/Analyst

  • Development and business analysis of logistic application Planning Wizard
  • PHP/MySql

Technologies I work with:

Languages

  • PHP
  • Go
  • C#/.NET
  • Python
  • TypeScript/JavaScript
  • (a little) Java

AI & agents

  • Claude
  • MCP
  • semantic-kernel
  • ML.NET
  • self-hosted open-weight models

Infra & CI/CD

  • GitLab CI/CD
  • Ansible
  • Docker
  • Azure
  • K8s (a little)
  • Linux
  • Cloudflare
  • Prometheus/Grafana/Loki

Data

  • PostgreSQL/TimescaleDB
  • MariaDB/MySQL
  • MongoDB
  • Elasticsearch
  • Redis
  • Power BI

Frontend & mobile

  • React
  • React Native
  • Vue 3
  • Node.js

Testing

  • Playwright
  • Cypress
  • Selenium
  • Appium
  • Nightwatch.js
My gitlab profile: Gitlab

Portfolio

  • All
  • AI
  • Infrastructure
  • Data & Trading
  • Mobile
  • Leadership
Riverbit — demand forecasting engine

Riverbit — demand forecasting engine

Croston/TSB forecasting for ~100k series, walk-forward backtested

Riverbit — click-to-deploy infrastructure

Riverbit — click-to-deploy infrastructure

SSH-less click-to-deploy CI/CD across 5 servers with Ansible

Riverbit — supply-chain platform with embedded AI

Riverbit — supply-chain platform with embedded AI

Modular .NET platform with an embedded MCP server + Claude assistant

AI video factory

AI video factory

Cloned voices, lip-sync and auto-assembled scenes for YouTube

AI safety evaluation lab

AI safety evaluation lab

Black-box LLM safety evals and an embedding-space lab

Midas — LLM-generated trading strategies

Midas — LLM-generated trading strategies

LLM-written strategies, backtested and served over MCP

Car-market aggregator with AI assistant

Car-market aggregator with AI assistant

Czech car-listing aggregator with a tool-calling assistant

Aletheia — memory and knowledge platform for AI agents

Aletheia

Persistent memory & knowledge graph for AI agents

Peers — local coordination broker for AI coding sessions

Peers

Local broker letting AI coding sessions collaborate

Reddit Summary Bot — AI-filtered daily digest posted to Discord

Reddit summarizer

Claude-scored Reddit digests delivered to Discord

Multi-strategy crypto trading system

Crypto trading system

Delta-neutral funding arbitrage + four intraday strategies

OpenClaw Pulse — personal context API for AI coaching

OpenClaw Pulse

Personal context API grounding AI coaching

Leadership and QA team management

Leadership

How I grow engineers and teams

MBA studies in psychology

MBA

MBA in Sociology & Psychology

YOLO object detection project

YOLO detection

YOLO object detection experiment

AiNEWS — AI news aggregator

AiNEWS

News personalized by explicit goals, not clicks

Inventory management and supply chain optimization software

Supply-chain optimization

Inventory optimization: service levels, safety stock, reorder points

Stock options trading analysis

Stock options analysis

Options open-interest analysis (I was wrong)

MyLittleSecret — fashion mobile app

MyLittleSecret

Fashion marketplace app with a social layer

AI Slack chatbot

AI Slack chatbot

Slack bot answering from the company wiki

LinkedIn parser tool

LinkedIn parser

Candidate-sourcing automation for HR

Appium mobile test automation

Appium testing

Real-device mobile testing

DailyRise — coaching mobile app

DailyRise

CBT daily-questions coaching app

DipWatcher — market dip monitoring tool

DipWatcher

Price-dip detection and alerts

Jira data mining and reporting

Jira data mining

Company-wide Jira analytics in Kibana

Let's work together

I take on consultancy work in three areas: AI agents & LLM integration; CI/CD, DevOps & infrastructure; and engineering leadership / fractional CTO.

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