Evan Christopher
M.Sc. Information Systems student at TUM | Working Student at Siemens | Enthusiastic about cloud-native full-stack development, AI, and decentralized technologies | Building intelligent and user-centric solutions.
Work Experience
sebis @ TUM
Research Assistant (HiWi)
- Developed a research-driven full-stack web app for issuing Verifiable Credentials in the Gaia-X ecosystem, ensuring secure and scalable digital identity management, aligned with industry standards.
Siemens
Working Student - Software Engineer
- Engineered and deployed features for multiple customer-facing web applications in IT Identity Management, integrating APIs and leveraging IaC for scalable, reproducible environments.
- Contributed to CI/CD pipelines and coordinated work via GitLab, improving deployment efficiency and ensuring reliable delivery of features.
Giesecke und Devrient
Working Student - Full Stack Developer
- Implemented features for an internal HSM testing tool using Angular, improving tool usability and reliability.
- Maintained documentation and tracked tasks with Jira to ensure efficient team collaboration.
Education
Technical University of Munich
- ⏳ Master's Thesis on Differential Privacy and LLM alignment.
- Led a team of three in developing a microservice-based AI application with CI/CD pipelines, integrated monitoring and logging, and AWS deployment, enhancing development efficiency and system reliability for a DevOps course project.
- Directed a four-member team to design and develop research libraries and a demo application for the SEBA Lab Course practicum, emphasizing usability and robust architecture.
- Led the SEBA Master Project — developed a full-stack platform for student apartment subletting, integrated Stripe payment processing for seamless transactions, and delivered an intuitive, user-friendly solution.
- Relevant coursework: Software Engineering, AI/ML/NLP, Cloud, DevOps, Legal Tech, Blockchain, Algorithms, and Economics
Technical University of Munich
- Bachelor's Thesis: 'How to Wisely Identify Natural Subjects with Verifiable Credentials' (1.0 grade)
- Participated in iPraktikum and JavaScript technology Seminar
- Relevant coursework: Software Engineering, AI/ML, Databases, Mathematics, Economics.
Skills
Things I know how to make work — sometimes on the first try, usually better after coffee:Projects
Photography blog
Designed and built a highly visual, AI-powered travel photography blog featuring semantic image search using Jina clip embeddings, automated post summarization via Llama 3.1, and an integrated Sanity Studio workflow with continuous vector database synchronization.
ZenAI - App
Built an AI-powered mental wellness journaling app delivering personalized mental wellness insights and recommendations, with emphasis on CI/CD, monitoring, and cloud-based deployment.
CRSet - Demo and Library
Development of a demo for a research project funded by the Ethereum Foundation on a novel revocation mechanism for verifiable credentials, including related libraries.
Themis App
Development of an open-source IOS application for TUM tutors to grade programming assignments and exams as an extension of Artemis for iPraktikum
Genomics.ai
Implemented features for the Helmholtz Institute of a web app to annotate and visualise single-cell sequencing data using neural networks as a part of the JavaScript Technology Seminar.
Procurement Sourcing Recommender
Placed top 3 in a challenge set by Spherecast, building an explainable AI sourcing-recommendation system that uses RAG and LLM-based extraction to map compliance certifications across 500+ raw materials and finished goods, then applies constrained set-cover optimization to recommend the minimum compliant supplier set.
Nutree.si
Won 2nd place at GarudaHacks 3.0 (largest hackathon in Southeast Asia) for designing and developing a mobile app for nutrition tracking and calorie analytics.