MAAH / 01 AI Development Manager · SKF

Applied AI.
In production.

I lead AI teams delivering SKF's first customer-facing GenAI assistant and product optimization in engineering software. With Sferical AI, I lead sovereign open-model evaluation and deployment planning for sensitive workloads.

AI strategyApplied researchProduct deliverySovereign AI

Career record · CV reviewed 8 October 2026

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  1. AI Development Manager & Senior AI Specialist

    SKF · AI Innovation & Enablement, AI Center of Excellence. Leads four direct reports across the Netherlands and Sweden.

  2. Senior AI Specialist & Team Lead

    SKF · GenAI delivery, solution architecture, evaluation, and governance.

  3. AI Specialist

    SKF · Optimization, forecasting, and AI systems in engineering software.

  4. Research Intern

    SKF GmbH & Politecnico di Torino · Robotic gearbox condition monitoring.

Education · Politecnico di Torino

2018–2020 · M.Sc. Mechatronics Engineering

2015–2018 · B.Sc. Mechanical Engineering

01 / Selected systems

Work with a job to do.

From AI strategy and applied research to delivered products and ongoing evaluation. Each example makes its maturity clear: delivered, MVP, PoC, or planning.

01

AI CoE · Team + TCS delivery partnership

AI Strategy & Leadership

Four direct reports · TCS consultants · AI CoE prioritizationLead AI Innovation & Enablement within SKF's AI Center of Excellence, managing four direct reports across the Netherlands and Sweden. I coordinate delivery through a partnership that brings my direct reports together with consultants from Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), aligning shared capacity with business priorities.Read the case note
02

Industrial AI · MVPs + PoCs

AI Innovation & Research

MVP delivered · R&D Library remains a scoped PoCVirtual Testing reached maintenance/support with approximately 1,000 historical reports indexed; one user reported saving 2-3 hours on one retrieval task. Expert Knowledge remains a pilot; the permission-aware R&D Library is a PoC with 290 PDFs in the accessible test subset.Read the case note
03

Customer + engineering systems · Delivered

AI Product Delivery

Customer-facing GenAI assistant delivered · AI optimization deployed in engineering softwareDelivered SKF's first customer-facing multi-agent technical assistant and recommendation/optimization in engineering software. Applied work also includes RAG monitoring and evaluation, with reusable patterns for ingestion, retrieval, tool routing, evaluation, and latency/cost controls. Current Product Assistant support is coordinated with AI Products, which retains product ownership.Read the case note
04

Evaluation and deployment planning ongoing · Sferical AI

Sovereign AI

Sovereign open-model evaluation · local GPU and runtime optionsWith Sferical AI, I evaluated local GPU-cluster options in Sweden, including NVIDIA 300-series GPU racks and NVIDIA Run:ai, for sovereign and high-confidentiality workloads. This work remains evaluation and deployment planning; it is not a completed production rollout.Read the case note

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