Helmut Von Ankershoffen
Engineering Manager at Snowflake
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolHelmut Von Ankershoffen is a seasoned product and engineering leader with 20+ years building scalable, AI-driven platforms across startups and hyperscale organizations, currently SVP Product & Engineering at Aignostics. He blends big‑company rigor from Amazon—where he scaled a global ML personalization platform and saved millions in AWS costs—with a founder’s agility honed through multiple bootstrapped ventures and CTO roles in Berlin. Equally at home shaping technical strategy and mentoring teams, he drives cross‑functional delivery through data‑driven decisions, empathy, and transparent collaboration. His academic roots in computer science and mathematics underpin a long-running interest in AI for impact—dating back to a diploma thesis on AI for leukemia treatment—and he holds a patent on relevance ranking in search. Based in Berlin, Helmut is a curious lifelong learner who continuously explores trends in leadership, economics, and emerging tech.
11 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma, Computer Science, Diploma, Computer Science at Technische Universität BerlinHigh-School Diploma, High-School Diploma at Werner Heisenberg Gymnasium
German, English, Latin, Spanish, French
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Github Skills (200)
api-platform10
qupath10
nvidia-jetson10
angularjs10
php10
virtualbox10
angularjs-material10
nicegui10
nox10
resolver10
jupyter10
hypriot10
tensorflow-serving10
nvidia-jetson-nano10
packaging10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
aignostics/python-sdk
Mar 2025 - May 2026
🔬 Python SDK providing access to the Aignostics Platform. Includes Aignostics Launchpad (Desktop Application), Aignostics CLI (Command-Line Interface), example notebooks, and Aignostics Client Library.
Contributions:8 reviews, 88 PRs, 849 pushes in 1 year 1 month
clicommand-line-interfacedesktop-applicationpythonatlas
helmut-hoffer-von-ankershoffen/jetson
Jul 2019 - Dec 2019
Helmut Hoffer von Ankershoffen experimenting with arm64 based NVIDIA Jetson (Nano and AGX Xavier) edge devices running Kubernetes (K8s) for machine learning (ML) including Jupyter Notebooks, TensorFlow Training and TensorFlow Serving using CUDA for smart IoT.
Contributions:21 releases, 16 commits, 220 pushes in 4 months
armcudajupyter-notebookk8skubernetes
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