Carsten Klaus

Carsten Klaus

Freelancer for Data & AI Engineering

info@carstenklaus.de

I don't just build systems, I hand them over: automated, observable and documented, so the team can run them without me. Good engineering is measured by what still works after you've gone.

Services

Architecture & technical leadership

designing whole systems and guiding teams from idea to production

GenAI & LLM Serving

running language and vision models privately, keeping data fully in-house

Cloud Infrastructure

scalable, resilient infrastructure across multiple cloud providers

Data Engineering

reliable pipelines that move and transform data at scale, real-time and batch

Kubernetes & Cloud-Native Platforms

portable, containerized workloads across environments

Security & Governance

access control, guardrails and compliance built in from the start

MLOps & AI Platforms

taking AI workloads from prototype to reliable, observable production

DevOps & Automation

streamlining build, test and release so teams ship faster and safer

Knowledge sharing

teaching cloud & AI to a growing audience on YouTube

Technologies

GenAI

LangFuseLLMVLMHugging FaceLangChainvLLMLLM AgentsChatGPTClaudeQwenGuardrailsOpenWebUIChainlit

AI / ML & MLOps

CUDA, OpenCVMLflowKServePyTorchComputer VisionSpeech-to-TextNLP

Data Engineering

Azure Data Factory, Redshift, SFTPPySparkApache KafkaApache AirflowApache SparkETLIcebergS3minIODremioTrinoSnowflakeBigQueryMQTTData Lakehousedbt

Cloud Platforms

HetznerAWSAzureGCPSTACKIT

Containers & Orchestration

OpenShiftKubernetes (K8s)DockerHelm

IaC & DevOps

Ansible, Chef, JenkinsTerraformGitGitLab CI/CDAzure DevOpsArgoCDGitOps

Security & Networking

VPNKeycloakOIDCOAuth2External SecretsWireGuard

Visualization & Monitoring

GrafanaPrometheusSupersetPlotly

Languages & Frameworks

RustPythonGoJavaC++JavaScriptSQLFastAPIDjango