Hi, I'm Elsa Bakiu
Enterprise AI, end to end: discovery, architecture, deployment. Twelve years in enterprise software. Two live products. One company founded.
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I design and ship AI systems inside complex organisations, from problem discovery through architecture and production deployment, with evaluation loops built in from day one.
End-to-end ownership from problem definition to production — translating strategy into working AI products, collaborating with engineering teams to ship what actually holds up.
Compliance scoped into the product brief, not patched on by legal. Risk classification, DPIA requirements, and AI Act obligations defined before a line of code is written.
Separating the real problem from the assumed one. Workflow mapping, stakeholder alignment, and MVP scoping so teams commit to the right build — not just the obvious one.
Defining what the agent needs to do, where it fails safely, and how quality is measured — then working with engineering to make it production-grade.
Products I've taken from concept to production, in regulated industries, with real users, under real constraints.
Self-directed builds across the AI stack — each one exploring a specific capability, pattern, or problem worth understanding hands-on.
RAG-powered assistant that generates on-brand content from a personal knowledge base, with human-in-the-loop quality gates.
Multi-source async pipeline with sentiment scoring, cost observability via LangSmith, and configurable summary depth.
End-to-end pipeline: LLM script generation, TTS synthesis, and audio post-production. Script to MP3 in a single command.
Academic foundations and hands-on professional development — spanning computer science, published research, and the full product and AI stack.
TU Munich
MSc Computer Science
Passed with distinction
ACM UIST 2015
Published Research
Stanford HCI Group · Cited in 150+ publications
Ironhack
AI Consulting & Integration
400h practitioner programme · 2026
Reforge
AI Productivity for PMs
Product School
Certified Product Manager & Product Leader
Scrum Alliance
Certified Product Owner & Scrum Master
The journey to becoming who I am today wasn't easy, and I look back on every step with love. Below are my key roles.
HydroMapper GmbH · Remote
Rumio · Tirana
Unite Services GmbH · Munich/Remote
Pentland Firth Software GmbH · Munich
Stanford HCI Group · ACM UIST
Elsa took a workflow that required two people and a lot of manual entry and designed and built the AI pipeline to replace it, complete with compliance documentation and a system that an inspector can actually use in the field.
