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About Florian Zimmermeister (flozi00)

Personal Information

Location: North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Passionate about: Speech recognition, accessibility, data transcription, AI, and IT infrastructure

Professional Focus: Server, AI, Systems, and IT Infrastructure

Professional Background

Florian Zimmermeister, known as flozi00, is an experienced IT professional specializing in artificial intelligence, speech recognition, and enterprise infrastructure. With a strong background in server technologies, datacenter solutions, and AI development, Florian has made significant contributions to the open-source community and enterprise AI services.

Currently working with primeLine Solutions, Florian leads AI service initiatives and focuses on developing cutting-edge solutions for speech recognition and machine learning applications.

Open Source Contributions

Speech Recognition & AI Models

Since 2021, Florian has been working on State-of-the-Art (SOTA) Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) for the German language:

Notable Achievements

  • First model with model card uploaded to Hugging Face Hub in 2020: aware-ai/bart-squadv2
  • 130k+ downloads for the primeline/whisper-large-v3-german model by end of 2024
  • Mentioned in research: Cited by Hajo Nils Krabbenhoft
  • Top 20 most active listeners and Top 50 most active speakers for German Commonvoice dataset (as of 21.03.2023)
  • Global Top 50 data collectors in Open Assistant project (as of 11.06.2023)
  • Global Top 5 data collectors in Argilla DIBT project (as of 22.02.2024)
  • Core contributor to Lorax inference server (Nov 2023 - Jun 2024): predibase/lorax
  • One of the first finetunes of german LLMs published on Huggingface Hub

Certificates

NVIDIA Technical Certifications

Florian holds multiple NVIDIA technical certifications demonstrating expertise in AI, compute, cloud, and visualization technologies.

2025 Certifications

2024 Certifications

2023 Certifications

Additional Qualifications

  • Reference letter for voluntary work in IT security and analysis

Projects & Timeline

2025 - Present:

Back to primeLine Solutions to further develop AI services and enterprise solutions. Working on scaleable AI infrastructures and on-device AI model compression. Developing an all in one solution for general agentic AI systems. Starting from search index for the whole web to code execution and tool use.

2025:

Joined Ellamind as an AI Engineer, to contribute to the openeurollm project, focusing on developing open-source large language models tailored for European languages and compliance standards. Focused on data and evaluations.

2023 - 2025: primeLine AI Services

Joined primeLine Solutions and established the primeLine AI services division, focusing on:

  • Enterprise speech recognition solutions
  • German language AI model development
  • Custom AI/ML infrastructure for business applications
  • High-performance computing solutions

2021 - 2023: Speech Recognition Development

Intensive work on German language ASR models:

  • Development of multiple Whisper and Wav2Vec2 variants
  • Optimization for German language specifics
  • Community engagement and data collection
  • Research collaboration and publication citations

2020 - 2021: Covid-19 Response & Innovation

  • Developed a contactless check-in system during the Covid-19 pandemic with Open Telekom Cloud
  • LinkedIn Post: Contactless Visitor Check-In
  • Joined OTC project with the A\Ware Voice Assistant (AVA) - a local and data-protective voice assistant for healthcare institutions

2019 - 2020: A\Ware Voice Assistant

  • Founded A\Ware
  • Developed open-source Voice Assistant and A\Ware Skill Server
  • Focus on privacy-preserving voice technologies

2018: Mobile AI Development

  • Developed real-time text recognition Android app for ingredient detection (zoeli scan)
  • Early work in on-device AI and computer vision

2017 - 2019: Security Research

  • Voluntary penetration testing projects during school time
  • IT security analysis and vulnerability assessment
  • Building foundational security expertise

Technical Expertise

Core Competencies

  • AI & Machine Learning: Deep learning, speech recognition, NLP, model optimization
  • Infrastructure: Server architecture, datacenter design, HPC systems
  • Cloud Technologies: NVIDIA Cloud, Open Telekom Cloud, distributed systems
  • Development: Python, PyTorch, Transformers, inference optimization
  • Systems: Linux, GPU computing, containerization

Specializations

  • German language speech recognition
  • Model compression and optimization
  • Enterprise AI deployment
  • Voice assistant development
  • IT security and penetration testing

Community Engagement

  • Hugging Face Profile: flozi00
  • GitHub Profile: flozi00
  • Active contributor to open-source AI projects
  • German Commonvoice community member
  • Open Assistant project contributor
  • Argilla DIBT project contributor

Contact & Links

This TechHub serves as a knowledge base documenting technical insights, guides, and solutions developed throughout my professional journey.