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Email: richard.bergmair funny-at-shape urefpa25.onmicrosoft.com
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rbergmair··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (August 2025)
SEEKING WORK | Remote | Data Scientist, Data Engineer, Search Engineer, AI Developer

Location: Germany

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Languages: English, German

Technologies: Python, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Search Engines, Machine Learning (ML), Finance, Law, Perl, Lua, Linux, LLM, RAG, scientific Py (numpy, scipy, pandas, matplotlib, scikit-learn), QGIS & geographical Py, nltk, vector search, elasticsearch, apache solr, lucene, quickwit tantivy, PostgreSQL, clickhouse, mongodb, redshift, AWS, Azure, docker, git

Résumé/CV: https://richard.bergmair.eu/en/projects/resume.pdf

Web: https://richard.bergmair.eu/

Email: richard.bergmair@urefpa25.onmicrosoft.com

Hours: CET (European), US East, Indian

Ph.D. in NLP from the University of Cambridge; recently: course on LLMs from MIT's AI & ML Certificate

13 years of freelancing in long-term remote gigs

~ 10 years of that was heavy on Data Science & ML (Goldman Sachs, Telefónica Germany, Flowminder Foundation, ...)

~ 7 years of that was heavy on Search Engines & NLP (DuckDuckGo, JUJU a.k.a. job-search-engine.com, ...)

some special interests: privacy & data protection (TÜV-certified), legal tech, law & compliance, finance, bookkeeping

rbergmair··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2025)
Location: Germany

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Languages: English, German

Technologies: Python, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Search Engines, Machine Learning (ML), Finance, Law, Perl, Lua, Linux, LLM, RAG, scientific Py (numpy, scipy, pandas, matplotlib, scikit-learn), QGIS & geographical Py, nltk, vector search, elasticsearch, apache solr, lucene, quickwit tantivy, PostgreSQL, clickhouse, mongodb, redshift, AWS, Azure, docker, git

Résumé/CV: https://richard.bergmair.eu/en/projects/resume.pdf

Web: https://richard.bergmair.eu/

Email: richard.bergmair@urefpa25.onmicrosoft.com

Hours: CET (European), US East, Indian

Data Scientist, Data Engineer, Search Engineer, AI Developer

Ph.D. in NLP from the University of Cambridge; recently: course on LLMs from MIT's AI & ML Certificate

13 years of freelancing in long-term remote gigs

~ 10 years of that was heavy on Data Science & ML (Goldman Sachs, Telefónica Germany, Flowminder Foundation, ...)

~ 7 years of that was heavy on Search Engines & NLP (DuckDuckGo, JUJU a.k.a. job-search-engine.com, ...)

some special interests: privacy & data protection (TÜV-certified), legal tech, law & compliance, finance, bookkeeping

rbergmair··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (July 2025)
SEEKING WORK | Remote | Data Scientist, Data Engineer, Search Engineer, AI Developer

Location: Germany

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Languages: English, German

Technologies: Python, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Search Engines, Machine Learning (ML), Finance, Law, Perl, Lua, Linux, LLM, RAG, scientific Py (numpy, scipy, pandas, matplotlib, scikit-learn), QGIS & geographical Py, nltk, vector search, elasticsearch, apache solr, lucene, quickwit tantivy, PostgreSQL, clickhouse, mongodb, redshift, AWS, Azure, docker, git

Résumé/CV: https://richard.bergmair.eu/en/projects/resume.pdf

Web: https://richard.bergmair.eu/

Email: richard.bergmair@urefpa25.onmicrosoft.com

Hours: CET (European), US East, Indian

Ph.D. in NLP from the University of Cambridge; recently: course on LLMs from MIT's AI & ML Certificate

13 years of freelancing in long-term remote gigs

~ 10 years of that was heavy on Data Science & ML (Goldman Sachs, Telefónica Germany, Flowminder Foundation, ...)

~ 7 years of that was heavy on Search Engines & NLP (DuckDuckGo, JUJU a.k.a. job-search-engine.com, ...)

some special interests: privacy & data protection (TÜV-certified), legal tech, law & compliance, finance, bookkeeping

rbergmair··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (July 2025)
Location: Germany

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Languages: English, German

Technologies: Python, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Search Engines, Machine Learning (ML), Finance, Law, Perl, Lua, Linux, LLM, RAG, scientific Py (numpy, scipy, pandas, matplotlib, scikit-learn), QGIS & geographical Py, nltk, vector search, elasticsearch, apache solr, lucene, quickwit tantivy, PostgreSQL, clickhouse, mongodb, redshift, AWS, Azure, docker, git

Résumé/CV: https://richard.bergmair.eu/en/projects/resume.pdf

Web: https://richard.bergmair.eu/

Email: richard.bergmair@urefpa25.onmicrosoft.com

Hours: CET (European), US East, Indian

Data Scientist, Data Engineer, Search Engineer, AI Developer

Ph.D. in NLP from the University of Cambridge; recently: course on LLMs from MIT's AI & ML Certificate

13 years of freelancing in long-term remote gigs

~ 10 years of that was heavy on Data Science & ML (Goldman Sachs, Telefónica Germany, Flowminder Foundation, ...)

~ 7 years of that was heavy on Search Engines & NLP (DuckDuckGo, JUJU a.k.a. job-search-engine.com, ...)

some special interests: privacy & data protection (TÜV-certified), legal tech, law & compliance, finance, bookkeeping

rbergmair··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2025)
Location: Germany

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Languages: English, German

Technologies: Python, Natural Language Processing, Search Engines, Machine Learning, Finance, Perl, Lua, Java, Linux, Golang, Haxe, scientific Py (numpy, scipy, pandas, matplotlib, scikit-learn), QGIS & geographical Py, nltk, word2vec, vector search, llms, elasticsearch, apache solr, lucene, quickwit, tantivy, PostgreSQL, clickhouse, mongodb, redshift, AWS, Azure, docker, git

Résumé/CV: https://richard.bergmair.eu/en/projects/resume.docx

Web: https://richard.bergmair.eu/

Email: richard.bergmair funny-at-shape urefpa25.onmicrosoft.com

Hours: CET (European), US East, Indian

Data Scientist, Data Engineer, Search Engineer, AI Backend Developer

Ph.D. in Natural Language Processing (NLP) from the University of Cambridge; recently: course on LLMs from M.I.T.'s AI & ML Certificate

13 years of freelancing

~ 10 years of that was heavy on Data Science & Machine Learning (Goldman Sachs, Telefónica Germany, Flowminder Foundation, ...)

~ 7 years of that was heavy on Search Engines & Natural Language Processing (DuckDuckGo, JUJU a.k.a. job-search-engine.com, ...)

some special interests: privacy & data protection (TÜV-certified), law & compliance, finance, bookkeeping

rbergmair··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (June 2025)
SEEKING WORK | Remote | Data Scientist, Data Engineer, Search Engineer, AI Backend Developer

Location: Germany

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Languages: English, German

Technologies: Python, Natural Language Processing, Search Engines, Machine Learning, Finance, Perl, Lua, Java, Linux, Golang, Haxe, scientific Py (numpy, scipy, pandas, matplotlib, scikit-learn), QGIS & geographical Py, nltk, word2vec, vector search, llms, elasticsearch, apache solr, lucene, quickwit, tantivy, PostgreSQL, clickhouse, mongodb, redshift, AWS, Azure, docker, git

Résumé/CV: https://richard.bergmair.eu/en/projects/resume.docx

Web: https://richard.bergmair.eu/

Email: richard.bergmair funny-at-shape urefpa25.onmicrosoft.com

Hours: CET (European), US East, Indian

Ph.D. in Natural Language Processing (NLP) from the University of Cambridge; recently: course on LLMs from M.I.T.'s AI & ML Certificate

13 years of freelancing

~ 10 years of that was heavy on Data Science & Machine Learning (Goldman Sachs, Telefónica Germany, Flowminder Foundation, ...)

~ 7 years of that was heavy on Search Engines & Natural Language Processing (DuckDuckGo, JUJU a.k.a. job-search-engine.com, ...)

some special interests: privacy & data protection (TÜV-certified), law & compliance, finance, bookkeeping

rbergmair··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2025)
It's not clear, whether you're seeking "Remote (US)" only. "must be authorized to work in the US" could be read as "we're only open to working with people in the U.S.", or it could be read as just emphasizing the legal requirement that, if someone is in the U.S., they must be authorized to work there.
rbergmair··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2025)
Location: Germany

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Languages: English, German

Technologies: Python, Natural Language Processing, Search Engines, Machine Learning, Finance, Perl, Lua, Java, Linux, Golang, Haxe, scientific Py (numpy, scipy, pandas, matplotlib, scikit-learn), QGIS & geographical Py, nltk, word2vec, vector search, llms, elasticsearch, apache solr, lucene, quickwit, tantivy, PostgreSQL, clickhouse, mongodb, redshift, AWS, Azure, docker, git

Résumé/CV: https://richard.bergmair.eu/en/projects/resume.docx

Web: https://richard.bergmair.eu/

Email: richard.bergmair funny-at-shape urefpa25.onmicrosoft.com

Hours: CET (European), US East, Indian

Data Scientist, Data Engineer, Search Engineer, AI Backend Developer

Ph.D. in Natural Language Processing (NLP) from the University of Cambridge; recently: course on LLMs from M.I.T.'s AI & ML Certificate

13 years of freelancing

~ 10 years of that was heavy on Data Science & Machine Learning (Goldman Sachs, Telefónica Germany, Flowminder Foundation, ...)

~ 7 years of that was heavy on Search Engines & Natural Language Processing (DuckDuckGo, JUJU a.k.a. job-search-engine.com, ...)

some special interests: privacy & data protection (TÜV-certified), law & compliance, finance, bookkeeping

rbergmair··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (May 2025)
SEEKING WORK | Remote | Data Scientist, Data Engineer, Search Engineer, AI Backend Developer

Location: Germany

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Languages: English, German

Technologies: Python, Natural Language Processing, Search Engines, Machine Learning, Finance, Perl, Lua, Java, Linux, Golang, Haxe, scientific Py (numpy, scipy, pandas, matplotlib, scikit-learn), QGIS & geographical Py, nltk, word2vec, vector search, llms, elasticsearch, apache solr, lucene, quickwit, tantivy, PostgreSQL, clickhouse, mongodb, redshift, AWS, Azure, docker, git

Résumé/CV: https://richard.bergmair.eu/en/projects/resume.docx

Web: https://richard.bergmair.eu/

Email: richard.bergmair funny-at-shape urefpa25.onmicrosoft.com

Hours: CET (European), US East, Indian

Ph.D. in Natural Language Processing (NLP) from the University of Cambridge; recently: course on LLMs from M.I.T.'s AI & ML Certificate

13 years of freelancing

~ 10 years of that was heavy on Data Science & Machine Learning (Goldman Sachs, Telefónica Germany, Flowminder Foundation, ...)

~ 7 years of that was heavy on Search Engines & Natural Language Processing (DuckDuckGo, JUJU a.k.a. job-search-engine.com, ...)

some special interests: privacy & data protection (TÜV-certified), law & compliance, finance, bookkeeping

rbergmair··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (April 2025)
SEEKING WORK | Remote | Data Scientist, Data Engineer, Search Engineer, Backend Developer

Location: Germany

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Languages: English, German

Technologies: Python, Natural Language Processing, Search Engines, Machine Learning, Finance, Perl, Lua, Java, Linux, Golang, Haxe, scientific Py (numpy, scipy, pandas, matplotlib, scikit-learn), QGIS & geographical Py, nltk, word2vec, vector search, llms, elasticsearch, apache solr, lucene, quickwit, tantivy, PostgreSQL, clickhouse, mongodb, redshift, AWS, Azure, docker, git

Résumé/CV: https://richard.bergmair.eu/en/projects/resume.pdf

Portfolio: https://richard.bergmair.eu/en/projects/projects.pdf

Web: https://richard.bergmair.eu/

Email: richard.bergmair funny-at-shape urefpa25.onmicrosoft.com

Hours: CET (European), US East, Indian

Ph.D. in Natural Language Processing from the University of Cambridge

13 years of freelancing

~ 10 years of that was heavy on Data Science & Machine Learning (Goldman Sachs, Telefónica Germany, Flowminder Foundation, ...)

~ 7 years of that was heavy on Search Engines & Natural Language Processing (DuckDuckGo, JUJU a.k.a. job-search-engine.com, ...)

some special interests: privacy & data protection (TÜV-certified), law & compliance, finance, bookkeeping

rbergmair··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2025)
Location: Germany

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Languages: English, German

Technologies: Python, Natural Language Processing, Search Engines, Machine Learning, Finance, Perl, Lua, Java, Linux, Golang, Haxe, scientific Py (numpy, scipy, pandas, matplotlib, scikit-learn), QGIS & geographical Py, nltk, word2vec, vector search, llms, elasticsearch, apache solr, lucene, quickwit, tantivy, PostgreSQL, clickhouse, mongodb, redshift, AWS, Azure, docker, git

Résumé/CV: https://richard.bergmair.eu/en/projects/resume.pdf

Portfolio: https://richard.bergmair.eu/en/projects/projects.pdf

Web: https://richard.bergmair.eu/

Email: richard.bergmair funny-at-shape urefpa25.onmicrosoft.com

Hours: CET (European), US East, Indian

Data Scientist, Data Engineer, Search Engineer, Backend Developer

Ph.D. in Natural Language Processing from the University of Cambridge

13 years of freelancing

~ 10 years of that was heavy on Data Science & Machine Learning (Goldman Sachs, Telefónica Germany, Flowminder Foundation, ...)

~ 7 years of that was heavy on Search Engines & Natural Language Processing (DuckDuckGo, JUJU a.k.a. job-search-engine.com, ...)

some special interests: privacy & data protection (TÜV-certified), law & compliance, finance, bookkeeping

rbergmair··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2024)
Location: Germany

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Languages: English, German

Technologies: Natural Language Processing, Search Engines, Machine Learning, Finance, Python, Perl, Lua, Java, Linux, Golang, Haxe, scientific Python ecosystem (numpy, scipy, pandas, matplotlib, scikit-learn), QGIS & geographical Python ecosystem, nltk, elasticsearch, apache solr, lucene, PostgreSQL, clickhouse, mongodb, AWS Redshift, AWS EMR, apache kafka, apache hadoop, AWS, Azure, docker, RabbitMQ, git

Résumé/CV: https://richard.bergmair.eu/en/projects/resume.pdf

Portfolio: https://richard.bergmair.eu/en/projects/projects.pdf

Web: https://richard.bergmair.eu/

Email: r.bergmair.r33 funny-at-shape rb.uref.email

Hours: European (CET), or US Eastern

Data Scientist, Data Engineer, Search Engineer, Backend Developer

Ph.D. in Natural Language Processing from the University of Cambridge

14 years in the business (12 of which were freelancing)

~ 10 years of that was heavy on Data Science & Machine Learning (Goldman Sachs, Telefónica Germany, Flowminder Foundation, ...)

~ 7 years of that was heavy on Search Engines & Natural Language Processing (DuckDuckGo, JUJU a.k.a. job-search-engine.com, ...)

some special interests: privacy & data protection (TÜV-certified Data Protection Officer/Auditor, industry-leading work at Duck Duck Go), law & compliance, bookkeeping, finance

rbergmair··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (October 2024)
SEEKING WORK | Remote | Data Scientist, Data Engineer, Search Engineer, Backend Developer

Location: Germany

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Languages: English, German

Technologies: Natural Language Processing, Search Engines, Machine Learning, Finance, Python, Perl, Lua, Java, Linux, Golang, Haxe, scientific Python ecosystem (numpy, scipy, pandas, matplotlib, scikit-learn), QGIS & geographical Python ecosystem, nltk, elasticsearch, apache solr, lucene, PostgreSQL, clickhouse, mongodb, AWS Redshift, AWS EMR, apache kafka, apache hadoop, AWS, Azure, docker, RabbitMQ, git

Résumé/CV: https://richard.bergmair.eu/en/projects/resume.pdf

Portfolio: https://richard.bergmair.eu/en/projects/projects.pdf

Web: https://richard.bergmair.eu/

Email: r.bergmair.r33 funny-at-shape rb.uref.email

Hours: European (CET), or US Eastern

Ph.D. in Natural Language Processing from the University of Cambridge

14 years in the business (12 of which were freelancing)

~ 10 years of that was heavy on Data Science & Machine Learning (Goldman Sachs, Telefónica Germany, Flowminder Foundation, ...)

~ 7 years of that was heavy on Search Engines & Natural Language Processing (DuckDuckGo, JUJU a.k.a. job-search-engine.com, ...)

some special interests: privacy & data protection (TÜV-certified Data Protection Officer/Auditor, industry-leading work at Duck Duck Go), law & compliance, bookkeeping, finance

rbergmair··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2018)
DATA SCIENTIST WITH EXPERTISE IN SEARCH ENGINES, NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING, & MACHINE LEARNING. FORMERLY AT GOLDMAN SACHS. PHD, UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE.

Location: Munich, Germany

Remote: YES

Willing to relocate: NO

Availability: At 20 hr/wk starting Oct-1 2018, then 40 hr/wk starting Mar-1 2019.

Technologies: Natural Language Processing, Search Engines, Machine Learning

Email: see http://www.utopia-refraktor.com/en/contact

Web: http://www.utopia-refraktor.com/

LinkedIn: https://at.linkedin.com/in/richardbergmair

Some salient points about myself:

* Ph.D. in Natural Language Processing from the University of Cambridge

* taught Machine Learning for Natural Language Processing at the University of Malta as module leader

* worked as Data Scientist at Goldman Sachs for 1,5 years

* worked as Sr Search Engineer at JUJU.COM for 2,5 years

* 8-year track record of remote/contracting work in Data Science, Natural Language Processing, & Machine Learning

* particularly experienced with the scientific Python ecosystem, cloud technologies, and databases (SQL & NoSQL)

I prefer to work remotely but I'm willing to do up to 20% of my work on-site in the long-run average and be on-site up to 2 weeks at a time (travel expenses paid). I am based in Germany but am willing to work US east coast hours (have done so for years working with JUJU.COM without any issues).

rbergmair··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2017)
Do you have any contact data other than Twitter handles? I'd like to send you a resume, but Twitter doesn't really seem the right medium for it, does it? I'm this guy: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13302211
rbergmair··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (January 2017)
DATA SCIENTIST WITH EXPERTISE IN SEARCH ENGINES, NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING, & MACHINE LEARNING. FORMERLY AT GOLDMAN SACHS. PHD, UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE.

Location: Linz, Austria

Remote: YES

Willing to relocate: NO

Technologies: Natural Language Processing, Search Engines, Machine Learning

Resume/CV: http://www.utopia-refraktor.com/en-resume-and-projects.pdf

Email: see http://www.utopia-refraktor.com/en/contact

Web: http://www.utopia-refraktor.com/

LinkedIn: https://at.linkedin.com/in/richardbergmair

Some salient points about myself:

* Ph.D. in Natural Language Processing from the University of Cambridge

* taught Machine Learning for Natural Language Processing at the University of Malta as module leader

* worked as Data Scientist at Goldman Sachs for 1,5 years

* worked as Sr Search Engineer at JUJU.COM for 2,5 years

* 7-year track record of remote/contracting work in Data Science, Natural Language Processing, & Machine Learning

* particularly experienced with the scientific Python ecosystem, cloud technologies, and databases (SQL & NoSQL)

I prefer to work remotely but I'm willing to do up to 20% of my work on-site in the long-run average and be on-site up to 3 weeks at a time (travel expenses paid). I offer lower rates for remote work than I do for on-site to add a further incentive and have no problem with making my timesheets auditable through a mechanism such as HUBSTAFF.COM to further raise the standard of trust. I am based in Austria but am willing to work US east coast hours (have done so for years working with JUJU.COM without any issues).