# Pablo Oliva (@depo77.bsky.social)

Profile: https://sifa.id/p/depo77.bsky.social
Headline: Lead AI Engineer | LLM platforms, agents, RAG & evals | EU AI Act & GDPR in practice | Open source: Redakt, Sift, Sherpa | Inventor, USPTO patent pending
Location: Augsburg, Bavaria, Germany

## About

I've been writing software since 1999 and building with coding agents since July 2025. Mostly for the web: freelance sites, a financial news wire I ran as CIO, the Pasadena Public Library's website, then enterprise Angular apps at Wolters Kluwer and at Memodo, where I ended up leading the front-end team. Honestly, I was oblivious to what was happening in machine learning until ChatGPT came out. Then I could see right away how much it was going to change, and I still haven't come down from that high.

Today I'm Lead AI Engineer at Memodo, a solar wholesaler with about 300 people in five countries. I built **MemodoAI**, our company-wide AI platform. It runs LibreChat on Azure OpenAI in the EU, hooks into Microsoft 365 and SharePoint, and checks for personal data before anything reaches a model. Everyone got access in June 2026. Along the way I co-wrote our AI governance framework, helped train colleagues for the EU AI Act's literacy requirement, and started an AI Champions network.

Outside work I build in public:

\- **Redakt**: open-source GDPR/PII detection for AI teams (built on Microsoft Presidio)
\- **Sift**: a RAG knowledge base with its own MCP server
\- **Currents**: my self-hosted AI news pipeline, with evals, Langfuse observability and six layers of prompt-injection defense. Its output is public at [downstream.news](http://downstream.news).
\- **Sherpa**: interviews you and tells you which AI tools fit your work
\- **sdd-flow**: spec-driven development with Claude Code subagents

I get AI past the demo and into people's daily work, governance and people problems included. That's usually where it stalls.

I write about what works (and what doesn't) at [pablooliva.de/the-closing-window](https://pablooliva.de/the-closing-window).

## Career

- **Lead AI Engineer at Memodo GmbH** (Nov 2025 - Present)
  Full-time · Munich, Bavaria, DE · Remote
  Own AI at Memodo (≈300 employees, 5 countries), from platform engineering through governance and adoption.
  • Built and rolled out MemodoAI company-wide (June 2026): LibreChat on Azure OpenAI (EU), Entra SSO, Microsoft 365 via MCP, SharePoint retrieval, PII filtering with Redakt
  • Wrote the AI strategy and governance framework: risk assessment, GDPR guidance, vendor checklist, tool budget model
  • Helped with training employees (EU AI Act Art. 4 AI literacy) and started the AI Champions network
  • Lead the AI process-optimization stream of the company-wide optimization program; shipped automations to production
- **Team Lead Frontend Development at Memodo GmbH** (Feb 2022 - Nov 2025)
  Frontend development, team lead. Led a team of up to 6 Angular/TypeScript developers building Memodo's finance and internal web products.
- **Software Developer at Memodo GmbH** (Jun 2019 - Feb 2022)
- **Software Developer at Wolters Kluwer** (Nov 2016 - Jun 2019)
  Working mainly with Angular and Front-End development.
- **Full-Stack Web Developer at Human Capital Management Institute** (Mar 2012 - Jun 2016)
  Responsible for .NET back-end and JavaScript front-end applications development, website development and maintenance.
- **Library Webmaster, Technology Analyst at City of Pasadena** (Sep 2008 - Feb 2013)
  Pasadena, CA
  Responsible for developing and maintaining the Pasadena Public Library's digital presence and digital initiatives. Project manager for technology related projects.
- **Director of Commercial Lending at New Age Capital** (May 2007 - Aug 2008)
  Commercial and residential mortgage and business financing broker consulting clients on purchases, refinances and lines of credit. [ www.nacommercial.com ]
- **Chief Operations Officer at Emergency Disaster Systems** (Jul 2006 - Oct 2006)
  Assisted U.S. BioDefense (OTCBB: UBDE) management with the acquisition of Emergency Disaster Systems.
  
  Established and supervised operations, internal policies and procedures, product development, and sales.
- **Account Executive at Countrywide** (Jun 2005 - Jun 2006)
  Assisted nationwide clients with home purchase financing and in leveraging their home equity through refinancing and home equity lines of credit.
- **Chief Information Officer at Financial News USA** (Sep 2002 - May 2005)
  Financial News USA is a financial public relations firm with a proprietary news wire service.
  
  As Chief Information Officer, developed internal IT operations, technical infrastructure, business processes, and web applications. Developed and managed a proprietary news wire service, and served a dual role as the senior editor of that service.
  
  As General Manager and Marketing Director, responsible for all marketing campaigns and efforts for Financial News USA and for our client companies, including both online and traditional marketing methods.
  
  Also responsible for product development and management.
  
  Managed operations personnel, supervised a team of web and software developers, assisted with the management and education of the sales team.
  
  As Business Developer, developed and serviced numerous business relationships.
  
  Responsible for expanding the reach of Financial News USA’s news feed.
- **Web Designer & Developer at Various** (Jun 1999 - May 2005)
  Developed both front-end (design) and back-end (scripting and programming) solutions for various clients and companies.
  • Designed, developed and maintained several websites for various clients.
  • Supervised design teams as well as coordinated integration with backend components and programming.
  • Responsible for the administration of the company web servers and web hosts.

## Skills

### Technical
- Angular
- Docker
- Generative AI
- Large Language Models (LLM)
- Python (Programming Language)
- Software Development
- TypeScript
### Business
- Business Development
- Change Management
- Entrepreneurship
- Marketing
- Online Marketing
- Project Management
- Strategic Planning
- Strategy
### Interpersonal
- Team Leadership
- Technical Leadership
### Other
- AI Agents
- AI Governance
- AI Strategy
- Azure OpenAI
- Data Privacy
- General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
- LangFuse
- LangSmith
- LLM Evaluation
- Model Context Protocol (MCP)
- Program Management
- Prompt Engineering
- Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)
- Start-ups
- Strategic Partnerships

## Education

- **University of California, Irvine** — BA, Sociology, Computer Science minor (Bachelor) (Sep 1995 - Jun 2002)

## Languages

- English (native)
- Spanish (native)
- German (limited working)

## Links

- GitHub: https://github.com/pablooliva