Alexander Bresk

Current Position

• Co-Founder / COO @ WAKU Robotics

Volunteering

• Host and Organizer @ Machine Learning Dresden #MLDD
• Founding Partner and Host @ DecompileD Conference
• Supporting Member @ Gründergarten e.V.
• Board Member @ ZCOM Stiftung – Konrad Zuse
• Partner at AK Startups @ Silicon Saxony
• Support for NGOs and think tanks on various topics (e.g. future technologies and digitalization)

Publishing

• Several articles in t3n – digital pioneers (example) and other media outlets
• Gopher Learn – A Golang machine-learning library
• Editor / Proofreader of the German translation of:
  • Deep Learning with Python and Keras from Francois Chollet
  • Deep Learning. from Ian Goodfellow, Yoshua Bengio, and  Aaron Courville

Research

• Fully automated companies (business automation)
• The future robot economy
• Prompting and interaction with ChatGPT and LLMs

Professional experience

• Co-Founder & COO @ WAKU Robotics – after-sales management software for robots, fleet management for vendor-independent robot fleets, robotics consulting
• Co-Founder @ whisp Internet – a mobile app for product recommendations
• Co-Founder @ A4Grill – portable outdoor grill (patent) that fits in DIN A4 format (coverage in German, Austrian, and Swiss television, e.g. Galileo, ZDF)
• Senior Data Engineering & ML specialist at LOVOO: Recommendation systems, ad-fraud protection, crowd-sourced translations, data warehouse, ETL, data pipelines, stream processing
• Question-answering system using unstructured data (as Master thesis, 2015)
• Part of HTW Dresden Cognitive Robotics Research Lab
• 3D Head Pose Estimation using Consumer Depth cameras @ Cognitec Systems
• Member of think tanks of international corporations, advising on future technologies and strategy (e.g. autonomous driving, defense systems, business automation, and AI)
• Several NDAed activities regarding: big-data pipelines, autonomous systems, machine learning agents, and digital business models as well as strategic consulting on digitalization, automation, and digital business opportunities

“I really love to see tech at work. Robots as well as smart and self-learning systems are my passion. As a tech guy with entrepreneurial spirit I’m committed to bring new intelligent tools to life.”

Alexander Bresk

AI/Tech x Business expert