Tristan Ratz

Engineering Team Lead (AI, Search, Knowledge)

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Tristan Ratz

Engineering Team Lead (AI, Search, Knowledge)

At Serviceware, I manage the teams around AI, search and knowledge of the AI-native Serviceware Platform. We are working on the future of AI-native Enterprise Service Management (ESM) and, with Agent Hub, redefining the way people work in the service industry.

Before that I worked as a Generative AI consultant at Genow AI and studied Information Systems at TU Darmstadt, where I spent most of my time on natural language processing, from question answering to retrieval augmented generation.

What I keep coming back to: in a product, AI is a means to an end, never an end in itself. A model is only as good as the experience it enables. If people notice the AI more than the improvement, something went wrong.

Based in

Darmstadt near Frankfurt,
Hesse, Germany

Working at

Serviceware as
Engineering Team Lead (AI, Search, Knowledge)

Languages

German (native)
English (C1)

French (B1–B2)

Qualities

team player
high energy

analytical

curious

fast learner

Technologies

LLMs, RAG, Search, Python, PyTorch, TypeScript, React, AWS, GCP

Interests

Large Language Models
Retrieval Augmented Generation

Search & Knowledge

Human-centered AI

Selected work

Projects

2026

This Website: Redesign 2026

React · TypeScript · Vite · Embeddings · Model2Vec · Hybrid Search · BM25 · Physics Simulation · View Transitions

AI-generated image

2022

diverSATy

Satellite Data · Remote Sensing · Geospatial Analysis · Climate Adaptation · Green Roofs · Business Development

AI-generated image

2021

Interactive Image Segmentation

Python · Tensorflow · Label Studio · Computer Vision · Image Segmentation · Machine Learning · Bachelor Thesis

AI-generated image

2020

Podcast

Object Detection · NLP · Deep Learning · Banking

2020

Homepage

React · JavaScript · HTML · SCSS · AWS

2019

ChatApp

Swift · iOS · SwiftUI · Project Catalyst · Python · Twisted

2016

Website

PHP · HTML · CSS · MySQL · Python · Twisted

2014

Website

PHP · JavaScript · MySQL · HTML · Wordpress

12 / 13

2015

Content Management System

PHP · JavaScript · MySQL · HTML · CSS

A content management system, build using PHP, MySQL, HTML and JavaScript. Until today it is still in use.

During my time at school I wanted to build my own content management system. Not only because I disliked existing solutions and found them to difficult to use, but also to gain experience in some web technologies. I gained experience in PHP, HTML and CSS and build my first object oriented JavaScript-Image Picker using the javaScript function prototype pattern.

The CMS was graded with the best grade in the german system.