Munich, Germany

Besim Shala

AI & Cloud Engineer / Amazon DE / TU Munich

Building intelligent systems at the intersection of large language models, cloud infrastructure, and automation.

Current Work Amazon Munich
Education M.Sc. at TU Munich
Focus LLMs, cloud, automation
about

AI & Data Automation analyst at Amazon Munich, currently pursuing a M.Sc. in Information Systems at TU Munich.

Previously AI engineer at BMW Group. Combining engineering depth with business thinking.

location

Munich, Germany

currently

Amazon Munich · TU Munich

focus

LLMs · Cloud · Automation

languages

German (Native) · Albanian (Native) · English (C1)

projects

selected work
· 1.0

LLM-Based Sequential Early-Detection System

Sequential LLM-based approach for early detection of online firestorms on Reddit. Two-mode system: Global Recognition (F1=0.91) and Early Warning Mode (98% recall, avg. 8.6 comments to detection).

LLM-as-a-Judge Hierarchical Classification Sliding Window Reddit API Grid Search
Paper (TBD) GitLab →
selected work

LLM Forecasting Benchmark

Benchmarking LLMs as probabilistic forecasters on live Polymarket prediction markets. Evaluated via Brier Score and calibration metrics.

Python Polymarket API Brier Score Calibration
GitHub (TBD)
selected work
· 1.0

Containerized Microservices Architecture

Containerized microservices planning tool built with Angular and Spring Boot. Two vertically structured services (Kanban & Settings) with independent frontends, backends and databases orchestrated via Docker Compose with centralized Keycloak SSO.

Angular Spring Boot Docker Keycloak MySQL
selected work

Citation Verification MVP

LLM-powered academic citation verifier with a FastAPI backend and React frontend. Extracts Harvard-style citations from PDFs and DOCX files, matches them against uploaded reference papers and classifies each claim as SUPPORTS, CONTRADICTS, NOT_RELEVANT or UNCERTAIN using OpenAI.

Python FastAPI React OpenAI SQLite

experience

work

Amazon Munich · Apr 2026–present

Working Student, AI & Data Automation

BMW Group · Feb 2025–Feb 2026

Working Student, Applied AI Engineer

BMW Group · Sep 2024–Jan 2025

Software & Cloud Engineer Intern

Lösch & Partner GmbH · Jan 2024–Aug 2024

Extern for BMW Group

Working Student, Software Developer

metafinanz · Jan 2023–Dec 2023

Allianz Group subsidiary

Working Student, Business Analyst

education

TU Munich · Apr 2026–Apr 2028

M.Sc. Information Systems

HM Munich · Oct 2022–Mar 2026

B.Sc. Business Informatics - Information Technology

Thesis: 1.0

stack

LLMs & AI
Python LangChain Prompt Engineering LLM-as-a-Judge OpenAI Hugging Face
Cloud & Infra
AWS (ECS, Lambda, S3, API Gateway, VPC) Terraform Docker Keycloak Hetzner
Backend
Java Spring Boot FastAPI Flask TypeScript Node.js MySQL SQLite
Frontend
Angular React Astro Tailwind CSS

contact

If you want to talk about AI systems, cloud engineering, research collaboration, or interesting roles, let's connect.

besim_shala@outlook.de