Hi, I'm Bastian!

From production ML systems serving millions of daily predictions to deep learning models for bioimage analysis, here are some of the projects I've worked on across consulting and academic research.

A weekly HTML/CSS course at age ten sparked what has since become a lasting passion. Over the years, I've built and maintained websites for personal projects, local organizations, and freelance clients.

I grew up in Oberwil near Basel, Switzerland, where an early curiosity for languages and science shaped much of my path. I started learning Mandarin Chinese at four, spent part of my childhood at a bilingual school in Singapore, and went on to pick up several more languages along the way. I began studying chemistry at the University of Freiburg at fourteen, eventually switching to biology once I found my real passion at the intersection of life sciences and computation.

I'm currently a data science consultant at Artifact in Zurich, where I develop and deploy machine learning models at scale. My work includes leading the end-to-end ML system behind Swiss Post's nationwide parcel arrival time predictions, serving roughly one million daily forecasts, as well as designing award-winning generative AI solutions with RAG pipelines and agentic workflows.

Before consulting, I completed my PhD in computational biology at the Friedrich Miescher Institute (FMI) in Basel, where I built deep learning models for bioimage analysis, most notably deepBlink, which has been downloaded over 40,000 times. I hold a BSc in Biology from the University of Freiburg and an MSc in Molecular Biology from the University of Basel, and have authored multiple peer-reviewed publications in journals like Cell and Nucleic Acids Research.

Outside of work, I serve as a lieutenant and fourier in my local fire brigade, leading the command support unit and building high-availability alerting software for emergency operations. I speak German and English natively, and am fluent in Spanish, French, and Italian. In my free time, I enjoy building web applications and being on, in, and around water.

Whether you have a project in mind, want to collaborate, or just want to say hi — I'd love to hear from you.