Team Lead — Foundation Models for Robotics @ Agile Robots SE, Munich

Building intelligent robots that see and act.

I'm an AI engineer working on multimodal machine learning and robotics. My work focuses on vision-language and vision-action models that connect perception with decision making. I enjoy building complete ML systems — from large-scale model training to real-time inference infrastructure and robotics integration.

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Years at Agile Robots

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Original Projects

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Patent + Publication

Experience

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Team Lead — Foundation Models for Robotics

Agile Robots SE

Mar 2026Present

Tech Lead — Foundation Models for Intelligent Agents

Agile Robots SE

Aug 2025Mar 2026

Senior Deep Learning Engineer

Agile Robots SE

Dec 2023Sep 2025

Projects

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Training a VLM for robot understanding — multi-GPU pipeline with Hugging Face models, designed for real-world robotic perception and instruction following.

VLMsPyTorchHugging FaceDistributed TrainingRobotics

From perception to manipulation — a Vision-Language-Action model that converts visual understanding into precise robot actions for real-world manipulation tasks.

VLA ModelsImitation LearningPyTorchRoboticsSimulation

Real-time ML inference using asynchronous WebSocket architecture — streaming multimodal data (images, tensors, text) for low-latency robot control.

WebSocketAsync PythonML InferenceRoboticsSystems

Rewrote the async ML inference server from Python to Rust for performance-critical robotics applications — with Python bindings for interoperability.

RustAsyncML InferencePyO3Systems Programming

Implementation of RT-1 architecture for robotic manipulation — transformer-based policy for real-world task execution from demonstrations.

PyTorchTransformersRoboticsImitation Learning

Scripts and pipelines for fine-tuning large language models with LoRA and QLoRA on custom datasets.

LLMsLoRAFine-tuningTransformers

Skills

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Machine Learning & AI

Vision-Language Models (VLMs)Multimodal LearningFoundation ModelsTransformersModel Training & Fine-TuningModel Evaluation & BenchmarkingGANsTransfer LearningKnowledge DistillationSemi-Supervised LearningRAGDataset Preparation & Preprocessing

Robotics AI

Vision-Action ModelsImitation LearningRobot Action PredictionVision-Based ManipulationSimulation-Based EvaluationPolicy Inference PipelinesObject Detection & TrackingSemantic Segmentation

Systems & Infrastructure

Async ML InferenceWebSocket ArchitecturesGPU Training PipelinesMulti-GPU / Distributed TrainingAWS SageMaker / HyperPodDockerKubernetesTensorRTONNXCUDAGitLab CI/CDMLflowLinux

Programming

PythonRustC++PyTorchHugging FaceLangChainOpenCVSQLBash

Publications & Patents

paper2021

Tissue Segmentation in Histologic Images of Intracranial Aneurysm Wall

A. Niemann, A. Talagini, P. Kandapagari, B. Preim, S. Saalfeld

Interdisciplinary Neurosurgery, Vol. 26, 101307

4 citations

patent2024

Animal Physical Parameter Estimation by Image Processing

P. Kandapagari, et al.

European Patent Application No. 23207432.8

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