Niels TILCH

Co-founded and lead technology at Governys, an EU-sovereign SaaS company building a suite of platforms that help financial institutions manage contractual and regulatory complexity with confidence. • Software: Architect and lead development of a multi-platform ecosystem (Home Clause, Scan Clause, ExiGate, DiliPlan, AudiScope, RiskOut) covering contract lifecycle, risk, and vendor management, built on Java/Spring Boot, Angular (+ Hibernate), and PostgreSQL. • Cloud: Design and operate secure, EU-sovereign cloud infrastructure meeting the resilience and data-residency standards financial entities require. • AI: Design and build AI pipelines for contractual analysis grounded in European financial regulation, turning manual compliance review into faster, more reliable insight. • Leadership: Manage and grow the engineering team building this ecosystem end-to-end. Working directly with financial institutions and their legal, risk, and IT teams to turn compliance from a bottleneck into a competitive advantage.

Lead cloud infrastructure for Thot IT Solutions, designing and securing Azure environments for regulated financial entities. • Cloud Infrastructure: Designed and deployed Azure Cloud infrastructure using Terraform. • Software Development: Contributed to software development using Java, Spring Boot, Angular, PostgreSQL, VBA, and Power BI. • Monitoring & Administration: Oversaw monitoring, administration, and optimization of all Azure Cloud resources, including security, networking, databases, and backup solutions. • Azure DevOps: Managed CI/CD pipelines, code repositories, Azure service connections, release deployments, access and rights management, and overall security. • Documentation: Produced comprehensive documentation for cloud architecture, infrastructure management, and DevOps processes to ensure clarity and knowledge-sharing across teams. • Performance & Stress Testing: Used JMeter to run performance and stress tests evaluating system resilience under load. • Vulnerability Scanning: Administered, reported on, and managed application, OS, and infrastructure-wide vulnerability scans using Tenable Nessus and Rapid7. Stack: • Cloud: Azure (IaaS, Security, Networking, Storage & Backup), Terraform, Azure DevOps (CI/CD Pipelines) • Software Development: Java, Spring Boot, Angular, PostgreSQL, VBA, Power BI • Performance Testing: Azure Load Testing, JMeter, Artillery • Vulnerability Scanning: Tenable Nessus, Rapid7, Rapid7 InsightVM • Project Management: Jira • Other: SendGrid, OVHCloud, DigiCert

Part-time contract as Data Analyst for BNP Paribas, within the Marketing and Financing branch. • Data Engineering: Extracted, transformed, and loaded financial data from client inventory and transaction records. • Machine Learning: Built deep learning models to analyze behavioral patterns and identify groups of similar clients, using both supervised (time-series) and unsupervised (clustering) approaches. • Application Development: Designed and built a business intelligence application to improve efficiency in client inventory analysis and reporting, exposed via a RESTful API. Stack: • Data Science / ML: Python, PyTorch • Software Development: VueJS, RESTful API • Database: SQLite • Domain: Financial client behavior analysis

Research internship in Machine Learning Security applied to medical diagnosis. Research subject: the impact of attribute proportion on neural network robustness — covering generalization and adversarial attack scenarios. • Data Engineering: Extracted, transformed, and loaded radiography data from large public datasets (CheXpert, NIH Chest X-ray). • Research & Modeling: Built deep learning models and ran statistical analysis on model outputs across dataset modifications to evaluate robustness and vulnerability to adversarial attacks. • Publication: Synthesized findings into a research paper. Stack: • Deep Learning: TensorFlow, PyTorch • Compute: CUDA / Nvidia GPU • Datasets: CheXpert, NIH Chest X-ray • Domain: Medical imaging, ML security, adversarial robustness

Team lead and software developer for the migration of Jade, a medical software application, to a new programming language. • Project Leadership: Aligned the project with client objectives and safeguarded its overall health throughout the migration. • Team Management: Managed task allocation, meetings, and day-to-day communication with the client. • Software Development: Rebuilt the software in a new programming language, based on the legacy version.