Carsten Klaus

Carsten Klaus

Freelancer for Data & AI Engineering

info@carstenklaus.de

I build systems designed to run themselves: fully automated, deeply observable, and thoroughly documented for absolute operational independence.

Services

GenAI & LLM Serving

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

Architecture & technical leadership

designing whole systems and guiding teams from idea to production

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 AgentsChatGPTClaudeQwenGuardrailsOpenWebUIChainlitComfyUI

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