Besim Shala
AI & Cloud Engineer / Amazon DE / TU Munich
Building intelligent systems at the intersection of large language models, cloud infrastructure, and automation.
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
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 Forecasting Benchmark
Benchmarking LLMs as probabilistic forecasters on live Polymarket prediction markets. Evaluated via Brier Score and calibration metrics.
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.
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.
experience
work
Working Student, AI & Data Automation
Working Student, Applied AI Engineer
Software & Cloud Engineer Intern
Extern for BMW Group
Working Student, Software Developer
Allianz Group subsidiary
Working Student, Business Analyst
education
M.Sc. Information Systems
B.Sc. Business Informatics - Information Technology
Thesis: 1.0
stack
contact
If you want to talk about AI systems, cloud engineering, research collaboration, or interesting roles, let's connect.
besim_shala@outlook.de