About me

General:

Name:

Alwin Julian Schuster (Alwin J. Schuster)

Place of birth:

Vienna (Austria)

Place of residence:

Klagenfurt, Carinthia, Austria

Nationality:

Austrian

Native language:

German

Foreign language:

English [94 Points on TOEFL iBT® Test]

Driving license:

Austrian B license

Drone license:

European open-sub-category A1/A3 license, American Recreational UAS Safety License

Travels abroad:

USA, UK, France, Iceland, Croatia, Italy, Greece, Germany, Malta, Portugal, Turkey, Malaysia, Singapore

Hobbies:

Cooking, Home Automation, Programming/IT, Electronics, Photo and Video Editing

Sports:

Krav Maga, Kickboxing, Skiing, Running, Gym

Computer Skills:

Honors:

• Presenter at the LSZ CIO Conference 2021
• Presenter at the DocuMatrix UserConference [September 2021]
• Member of the High Potential Group (HTL Spengergasse) [September 2018 - Present]
• Participant at the LSZ CIO Congress [October 2019 and October 2020]
• Participant at the LSZ Challenge Accepted Congress [June 2021]

Awards:

• 1st Place - Austrian Federal Artificial Intelligence Competition [November 2022]
• 2nd Place - Accenture HTL Hackathon [January 2021]
• 3rd Place in Vienna (School) - 34th Cloudflight Coding Contest 2020 [58 participants, October 2020]
• 5th Place in Vienna (School) - 33rd Catalyst (renamed to Cloudflight) Coding Contest 2020 [95 participants, April 2020]

Certificates:

• Trauma Response Training
• Red Hat Certified Specialist in OpenShift Administration (EX280)
• appliedAI Initiative: Accelerate AI at Infineon [56 hours]
• Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA 3): Enterprise Networking, Security, and Automation
• Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA 2): Routing and Switching: Routing and Switching Essentials
• Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA 1): Routing and Switching: Introduction to Networks

Experience:

1. 

   Automation Lead @ Hybrid Infineon Cloud Platform

   November 2025 - Present

2. 

   Senior Engineer Container Platform & Agile People Manager

   April 2024 - November 2025

   Cloud-Focused Tasks:

   • Conducting interactive Cloud & OpenShift workshops (on-site & remote) to empower clients
   • OpenShift Configuration and Administration
   • Utilizing GitOps & ArgoCD for streamlined deployments
   • Implementing CI/CD Pipelines, CronJobs, and Automation scripts
   • Agile software development in Python, often with Django and Flask
   • Executing complex Django application migrations without impacting production processes

   AI/ML Focused Tasks:

   • Delivering engaging AI/ML Tech Talks
   • Driving AI projects forward within the HICP team
3. 

   Specialist Infineon Cloud Platforms & SCRUM Master

   January 2023 - April 2024

4. 

   Specialist Infineon Cloud Platforms

   September 2022 - January 2023

5. 

   Independent Machine Learning Project Lead

   September 2021 - August 2022

   • Developing an OCR (Optical Character Recognition) system
   • Leading a team of 5 developers
   • Agile development of machine learning systems in Python
6. 

   Website Administrator

   April 2018 - August 2022

   • Keeping website up-to-date
   • Implementing new features and pages
   • Preparing, editing, and uploading new projects
   • Performing search engine optimization (SEO)
7. 

   Machine Learning Researcher

   July 2021

   • Implemented, researched, and trained a synthetic XML data generation system based on Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs)
   • Implemented, researched, and trained multiple neural networks for quality assurance of documents
   • Led the first two machine learning projects at DocuMatrix
   • Developed machine learning systems in Python using agile methods
8. 

   Independent Machine Learning Project Lead

   October 2020 - June 2021

   • Developed an OCR (Optical Character Recognition) system
   • Led a team of 5 developers
   • Agile development of machine learning systems in Python
9. 

   Machine Learning Intern

   July 2020

   • Developed agile software in Python for abstract, self-learning systems in a team of 9 developers.
   • Participated in an international Reinforcement Learning Competition, organized as part of the NeurIPS 2020 conference.
   • Prepared machine learning training runs of the developed systems and load balancing on a K8s cluster.
   • Worked with state-of-the-art reinforcement learning techniques such as Action Masking, Shielded Learning, Dictionary Observation and Action Spaces, etc.
10. 

    Machine Learning Intern

    August 2019

    • Developed agile software in Python for abstract, self-learning systems.
    • Controlled robotic arm with reinforcement learning.

Education: