About Me

Atef Attia
Senior Machine Learning Engineer / Tech Lead
Steinhauser Str. 37 • Munich, 81677 Germany
Professional Experience
Senior Machine Learning Engineer / Tech Lead
ProSiebenSat.1 Media SE • Munich, Germany
Nov 2024 - Present
- Built a data pipeline in Databricks to calculate segment shares, driving optimized ad campaign placements.
- Organized a Knowledge Sharing Session to promote knowledge transfer and enhance synergy across the data department.
Machine Learning Engineer / Tech Lead
ProSiebenSat.1 Media SE • Munich, Germany
Apr 2022 - Nov 2024
- Led the development of a chatbot powered by Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), helping sales teams quickly access internal information.
- Enhanced internal content categorization using IAB standards for precise contextual targeting.
- Trained forecasting models using Metaflow and MLflow for scalable ML pipelines.
- Developed a TV attribution algorithm to assess campaign effectiveness.
Associate Data Scientist
ProSiebenSat.1 Media SE • Munich, Germany
Feb 2021 - Apr 2022
- Refactored and migrated TV attribution system to AWS, reducing infrastructure costs by 60%.
- Implemented monitoring solutions for complex data pipelines, decreasing daily ops by 20%.
- Trained classification models for user behavior prediction to enhance targeting efficiency.

Master Thesis - Data Scientist
Porsche Digital GmbH • Ludwigsburg, Germany
Mar 2020 - Sep 2020
- Applied unsupervised learning techniques for anomaly detection on acoustic signals using Keras and Python.
- Designed and trained an Improved Deep Embedded Clustering (IDEC) model to extract features and cluster anomalous and non-anomalous acoustic signals.

Working Student - Data Analyst
Siemens AG • Karlsruhe, Germany
Nov 2018 - Apr 2020
- Created real-time Qlik Sense reports to improve monitoring of 8D reports for manufacturing nonconformances, providing management with better progress visibility.
Education

M.Sc. Computer Science
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology – KIT • Karlsruhe, Germany
Oct 2018 - Sep 2020 • Grade: 1.8
Focus: Machine Learning, Computer Vision and Deep Learning
- Trained an LSTM-based RNN for movement prediction and anomaly detection in shipping traffic.
- Applied data augmentation and transfer learning to train a CNN for face recognition with a small dataset.

B.Sc. Computer Science
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology – KIT • Karlsruhe, Germany
Oct 2014 - Sep 2018 • Grade: 2.4
Focus: Software Development
- Implemented a web-based course enrollment system using Play and Java.

Diploma in Mathematics and Physics
Tunis Preparatory Engineering Institute – IPEIT • Tunis, Tunisia
Sep 2011 - Jul 2013 • Grade:
Focus: Mathematics and Physics