Curriculum Vitae
Justus August is an AI engineer and designer, co-founder of AI Værk, working on European AI sovereignty in the Baltic Sea Region.
Contact
Based in Stockholm. Write to contact@justusaugust.com, or find me on LinkedIn.
Education
KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm
- Information and Communication Technology
University of Potsdam
- Physics
Hermann-von-Helmholtz-Gymnasium
- Abitur completed with final grade 1.0
- Focus on mathematics and physics
Experience
- 02/2026 – present
Co-founder & AI Engineer
AI Værk
- Co-founded AI Værk with Elias Arndt, a 360° partner for AI in mid-sized companies.
- Build production AI systems: internal assistants on company knowledge, customer chatbots, realtime voice agents and agent workflows with evaluation.
- Assess which tasks suit AI and lead workshops with leadership and teams on concrete cases.
- 06/2023 – present
AI Working Group Lead
CBSS · BSSSC · BSRYF
- Lead the working group on European AI sovereignty across the Baltic Sea Region; drafted the AI recommendations submitted to the CBSS foreign ministers.
- Lead author of a 60-page paper on European AI infrastructure; speaker at the EUSBSR Annual Forum 2026 and opening speaker in two debates at the World Expression Forum 2026.
- 01/2024 – 12/2025
AI Educator
Freelance
- Ran practical sessions for non-technical teams in business, the public sector, and education.
- Used live demos and template-driven exercises to make AI adoption concrete and safe.
- 04/2024 – 10/2025
Gen AI Expert
Medieninstitut Potsdam
- Designed and ran workshops on generative AI for pupils, students, creators, and educators with live demos and reusable templates.
- Built AI workflows that accelerated research, scripting, and post-production for media teams.
Languages
- GermanNative
- EnglishC2
- NorwegianC1
- SwedishC1
- FrenchB1+
Focus Areas
- Policy drafting & negotiation
- Public speaking & debate
European AI sovereignty
- Machine learning systems
- AI engineering & agents
- Interface & product design
Core Skills
Policy & persuasion
- Recommendations & position papers
- Panels, speeches & formal debate
- Workshop & simulation design
- Cross-country coalition work
Machine learning
- PyTorch
- scikit-learn
- Feature engineering
- Temporal evaluation & calibration
- Sequence models (TCN, Transformer)
AI engineering
- Agents & tool use
- RAG & embeddings
- MCP
- Evals & guardrails
- Realtime voice AI
Software
- Python
- TypeScript
- React / Next.js
- Swift / SwiftUI
- SQL
- Docker
Design
- Interface design
- Typography & motion
- Native macOS & iOS apps
- Procedural & generative graphics
Awards
- Physik-Olympiade Brandenburg1st placeBrandenburg Physics Olympiad, three years running
- Tag der Mathematik1st placeMathematics Day
- GDCh-AbiturpreisChemistryAbitur Prize
- MINT-EC-Zertifikatwith distinctionMINT-EC Certificate
Toolkit
Agents
- Claude Code
- Codex
Models and data
- PyTorch
- Polars
- DuckDB
- PostgreSQL
Shipping
- Vercel
- Xcode
Design and film
- Figma
- DaVinci Resolve
Enrichment
- „Blick in die Materie“
- A Look into Matter – interference project days, HZB
- Astroteilchenphysik-Masterclass
- Astroparticle Physics Masterclass
- MINT-Tage
- STEM Days – University of Potsdam
Hobbies
- Photography
- Cycling
- Running
- Music production
- Philosophy
- Tennis