I combine research depth, product judgment, and engineering ownership. I like hard technical problems, small capable teams, and work that survives contact with real users.
Munich, Germanyamon.sisowath@gmail.com
ASMunich
Applied AI engineer & researcher
I'm Amon; I build production AI systems and study how they find information.
About
I'm a builder at heart.
Selected projects
01Research · Current
Measuring who gets retrieved
Popularity bias and long-tail failure across sparse and dense retrieval systems.
24.6M passages6 benchmarksBM25 + FAISS
Retrieval experiment24.6M passages
BM25 / BM25+ FAISS MRR + Recall
02Production AI · ARTICLY
AI that survives production
A redesigned multi-tenant server architecture for turning publisher feeds into approved podcast audio.
MCP orchestrationDense rankingHuman approval
Publisher pipelineProduction
Feed→Rank→Retrieve→Script→Approve→Audio
03Hack-Nation · 39 hours
Finding hidden market relationships
A working system connecting more than 1,000 prediction markets through semantic similarity.
Top 10 / 300+Track winnerFastAPI + D3.js
Market Link Network1,000+ markets
Embeddings HDBSCAN Sub-2s reasoning
Journey
AI Engineer
ARTICLYMar 2026 — Present
Independently redesigning the production server architecture and AI processing pipeline behind an automated podcast platform for newspaper publishers.
Independent Researcher
UC Berkeley Sky LabJan 2026 — Present
Researching popularity bias and long-tail failure in information retrieval across 24.6M Wikipedia passages and six benchmarks.
Development Team Lead
TUM.aiJul 2024 — Apr 2025
Led eight developers building a platform and retrieval-augmented assistant used by more than 100 people.
Business Analyst
EnpalJun — Aug 2025
Clustered customer needs and workflow pain points to turn qualitative evidence into clear product decisions.
Associate
Innovis VCNov 2023 — May 2025
Evaluated deep-tech startups for a database used by investors including Earlybird and Pictus.
Product Manager
CHECK24Sep 2023 — Jun 2024
Translated user and business needs into product priorities and delivery decisions.
Junior Product Manager
muffinApr — May 2023
Worked inside an early-stage startup across product discovery and execution.
Junior Software Engineer
SAPJul — Aug 2022
Built Java and Spring REST services in an agile product team.
Highlights
24.6Mpassages evaluated
Top 10of 300+ hackathon teams
8developers led
Education
UC Berkeley
2025Agentic AI, Deep Learning, Leadership
National University of Singapore
2025Machine Learning, Feature Engineering, Information Security
Technical University of Munich
2022 — 2026Statistics, ML Foundations, LLM Fine-Tuning, Linear Algebra
Tech stack
PythonPyTorchBERTLoRAFastAPIPythonPyTorchBERTLoRAFastAPI
RAGFAISSBM25+MCPHDBSCANRAGFAISSBM25+MCPHDBSCAN
Next.jsGCPSupabaseJavaSpringNext.jsGCPSupabaseJavaSpring