AI automation engineer · Vienna

Production AI systems
that businesses actually use.
Not demos.

Multi-agent systems, RAG, LLM orchestration, workflow automation. I build AI that runs in production with real users — currently a CRM analytics platform for a 14-location retail network. Background in operations and B2B sales means I speak your language, not just my stack's.

Available for new projects Vienna · Remote EU EN C1 · DE B2 · UA / RU native
1M+
Client transactions analyzed in production
200K
Telegram subscribers served by one bot
~90%
LLM cost reduction through tool design
14
Salon locations live on the same system

Real systems. Real numbers.
Two cases below.

No mock-ups, no demos, no "we could theoretically". Both projects below run in production today.

CRM analytics for a 14-location beauty salon network

2026 — ongoing · Production system

The setup: 14 salons. Roughly a million client transactions accumulated over years. Data lived in legacy exports — too much to read, impossible to act on. Salon managers had no way to ask basic questions like "who hasn't visited in 90 days but used to be regulars?" without manually digging through spreadsheets.

What I built: a Telegram-first analytics layer. Front-end is a chat bot anyone on the team can use from their phone. Brain is a multi-agent system on the Anthropic Claude API — Router classifies the question, Parallel runs simultaneous queries where needed, Chain feeds results between agents, Hierarchical lets the top-level agent delegate. Database is Supabase with strict named RPC functions. The agent picks tools; the database does the SQL.

The bot answers the questions a salon manager actually asks. Not the ones a consultant would write into a spec doc. Getting that distinction right is what makes the system useful on day one.

Where it landed: compressed the system prompt from ~35,000 tokens to ~3,000 through better tool and schema design — roughly 90% lower running cost, same accuracy. Monthly idempotent imports keep the data clean. Originally retrieved with Pinecone over summarized vectors; architecture is now evolving toward DuckDB-backed agentic retrieval as scope grows.


AI assistant + chat moderation for a Telegram network of ~200,000 subscribers

2025 · Client project

The setup: a publisher running a network of Telegram channels with about 200,000 total subscribers needed an always-on assistant in their discussion threads. The community asked the same questions on a loop. Moderating tone and spam across multiple channels by hand wasn't sustainable.

What I built: a Telegram bot that role-plays a human helper — built on aiogram 3 with OpenAI underneath. Context-aware reply logic with guardrails (tonality control, anti-spam filtering, escalation to human moderators when things get spicy). Channel-administration automations for the operator's team.

Moderating a 200K community means handling tone at midnight when one person decides to ruin the comments. The bot does what a junior community manager would do — gently, fast, consistently. The owner gets to sleep.

What you get when you hire me.

A solo engineer who ships production AI systems end-to-end. Architecture to deployment to handoff. No middlemen.

01

Production, not demos.

Every system I've shipped lives in production with real users. I keep scope tight on purpose — better one thing that works than five that look good in a screen recording.

02

End-to-end ownership.

Architecture, backend, LLM orchestration, bot interface, deployment, documentation. One person, one thread of accountability. You talk to me — I build it.

03

No agency overhead.

No project manager between us, no account exec translating decisions. For SMB-scale AI work that means faster iteration and lower cost than agencies for comparable scope.

04

I also speak business.

Prior background in operations and B2B sales means I can sit in a meeting with your team and understand the problem before anyone explains it in technical terms. That tends to save a lot of back-and-forth.

Three ways to start working together.

Every engagement begins with a free 30-minute call. If we're a fit, we move forward. If not, you walk away with at least a clearer picture of what your operation actually needs.

01 / Audit

Automation audit & build plan

For founders who can't afford to misalign on the build.

I look at your workflows. You explain the pain. I come back with a written audit: what's worth automating, what isn't, what it would cost, what tools fit. Honest take. Yours to keep — hire me to execute or take it to someone else.

From €300 ~1 week · Written audit deliverable
02 / Build

Automation MVP

For ops people who already know what they need.

A working first version of an AI or workflow system. Internal CRM, Telegram bot with LLM, RAG-powered assistant, data pipeline. Built fast, deployed, documented, handed off. Scope kept tight on purpose.

From €1,200 2–4 weeks · System + handoff docs
03 / Production

Production AI system

For products that need an AI layer that won't embarrass you.

End-to-end build. Multi-agent architecture, RAG, custom integrations, deployment, monitoring, ongoing support. The kind of system the Salon CRM case above is built like.

Custom quote 6–12 weeks · Production system + support

Also open to long-term retainer engagements, full-time roles in Vienna or DACH, and contract work across the EU.

Tools I actually ship with.

Not a buzzword wall. The list below is what I open on a Tuesday.

AI / LLM
OpenAI API · Anthropic Claude API · LangGraph · multi-agent systems (Chain / Router / Parallel / Hierarchical patterns) · RAG · prompt engineering & cost optimization
Workflow
n8n (advanced, custom nodes) · Make.com · Google Apps Script
Backend & Data
Python (FastAPI, asyncio) · PostgreSQL · Supabase · DuckDB · Pinecone · REST APIs · Webhooks
Bots
aiogram 3 · Telegram Bot API · Cloudflare Tunnel
Infrastructure
Docker · Git / GitHub · VS Code · Claude Code · Looker Studio · Google Sheets

Mark Dekker.
AI automation engineer
in Vienna.

I build AI systems that run in production — multi-agent architectures, RAG pipelines, Telegram bots, workflow automation. Currently focused on LLM orchestration and agentic systems.

My main project right now is a CRM analytics platform for a 14-location beauty salon network — over a million transactions, multi-agent on Claude, Telegram-first UX. It's the kind of system where breaking in production is a real problem, not an academic exercise.

Before engineering, I spent several years in hospitality and B2B sales — restaurant management, food truck, gastro market entry. That background shows up mostly in how I communicate with clients and how I think about what "production-ready" actually means for a non-technical end user.

Based in Vienna. SVS-registered freelancer. Open to full-time roles, hybrid, or remote contract work across the EU. When I'm not building: coffee shops, markets, CS2.

Based in Vienna, Austria
Work auth EU-authorized
Status SVS-registered freelancer
English C1
German B2
UA / RU Native
Timezone CET (UTC+1)
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Got a system you need built,
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I read every message. Tell me what you're working on, what's broken, or what you'd like to be possible. I'll come back within a day.