# David Zauner — Curriculum Vitae

**IT Delivery & AI Engineering** · Vienna, Austria
[david@znr.at](mailto:david@znr.at) · [david.znr.at](https://david.znr.at) · [github.com/dazaun](https://github.com/dazaun) · [LinkedIn](https://at.linkedin.com/in/david-zauner-58a8a7130)
Austrian & French · Born 31 October 1998

*Last updated: July 2026. HTML version: [English](https://david.znr.at/cv_david_zauner.html) · [German](https://david.znr.at/cv_david_zauner_de.html)*

## Summary

Software engineer with a passion for automation and AI-powered systems, building
production compliance platforms at a major international bank. Combines full-stack
Python and TypeScript development, Kubernetes/DevSecOps, and Large Language Model
(LLM) integration to deliver production systems in a highly regulated financial
services environment, subject to strict security, audit and compliance
requirements. BA Digital Business graduate of FH Wien der WKW (June 2026).

## Work experience

### IT Delivery Junior (Software & DevOps Engineer) — Agile Delivery Compliance
**Raiffeisen Bank International AG** · Vienna, Austria · October 2025 – present

- Developed an LLM-powered entity research service using the Gemini API for automated adverse-media and risk profiling; integrated into production compliance workflows.
- Designed and built an automated enterprise-wide risk assessment tool that processes compliance data and generates structured Word and Excel reports, reducing manual reporting effort.
- Built a Kubernetes-native Root Cause Analysis service that ingests Grafana alerts and autonomously investigates incidents using LLM agents; extended it with a purpose-built Kanban board tool for AI-native development workflows.
- Led the deployment of a sanctions list management service across development, staging and production environments.
- Coached 4+ internal hackathons (2-day and 2-week formats) on AI-assisted development; co-developed a full compliance platform frontend (TypeScript/Angular) alongside the coached team.
- Coached a UI test automation hackathon: set up the end-to-end (E2E) testing infrastructure — Playwright test suites running in GitHub Actions against a sanctions screening platform's UI, with a custom dashboard visualising test results — now adopted and in active use by the team.
- Presented AI engineering work to internal audiences of ~500 across multiple online forums and company-wide events.
- Delivered hands-on AI tooling workshops covering IDE-integrated AI assistants, Jira integration via the Model Context Protocol (MCP), and agent/skill definitions.
- Active contributor to the company-wide initiative to redesign the SDLC (Software Development Lifecycle) around AI-native practices, including architectural design input for a new internal AI coding platform.

### Working Student — Agile Delivery Compliance
**Raiffeisen Bank International AG** · Vienna, Austria · July 2024 – September 2025 · 20h/week

- Conceived and fully implemented a production AI platform (REST API, MCP server, Streamlit UI) for KYC (Know Your Customer) compliance workflows — actively used by compliance officers.
- Built Python microservices: automated email extraction and analysis, adverse-media/web search, Databricks customer queries, and a Microsoft Graph API webhook for AI-driven email routing.
- Set up and maintained CI/CD (Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery) pipelines (GitHub Actions, Kargo) and Kubernetes/OpenShift deployments with Helm charts and Kustomize manifests.
- Introduced Secure-SDLC/DevSecOps practices (SAST/DAST — static and dynamic application security testing); containerised all services with Docker/Docker Compose.
- Provisioned and operated a PostgreSQL database on AWS RDS; monitored applications in Kubernetes and Databricks environments.
- Delivered technical solution presentations at internal workshops and cross-team forums.
- Supported operations for a sanctions screening platform: user provisioning, identity management approvals, Jira ticket handling.

### IT Infrastructure Engineer
**Self-employed** · Vienna, Austria · June – August 2023

- Provided infrastructure engineering for a 42 Vienna peer project — deployed and configured a Kubernetes cluster and Docker-based services for a vehicle fleet and contract management platform for a car rental company.

### Volunteer
**CEHRI — Centre for the Enforcement of Human Rights International** · Vienna, Austria · October 2020 – present

- Supporting event organisation and providing on-site IT support including hardware setup and computer configuration.

### Volunteer
**Kuratorium Wiener Pensionisten-Wohnhäuser** · Vienna, Austria · June – December 2020

- Organised on-site cultural events for elderly residents, including opera evenings; provided hospitality support.

### Extraordinary Civil Service (Zivildienst)
**Kuratorium Wiener Pensionisten-Wohnhäuser** · Vienna, Austria · April – June 2020

### Civil Service (Zivildienst)
**Diakonie Österreich** · Vienna, Austria · July 2018 – March 2019

- Supported a refugee advisory centre providing legal and social counselling; assisted advisors and offered translation support for French-speaking clients.

## Education

### MSc Digital Technology & Innovation
**FH Wien der WKW** · Vienna, Austria · September 2026 – 2028 (expected)
Part-time master's programme (120 ECTS) bridging digital technology, innovation management, and applied research & development.

### BA Digital Business
**FH Wien der WKW** · Vienna, Austria · September 2023 – June 2026
Thesis: *Automatisierung von Compliance-Prozessen in Banken* (Automation of Compliance Processes in Banking) — systematic literature review on AML, sanctions and fraud automation methods.

### Software Engineering (peer-to-peer curriculum)
**42 Vienna** · Vienna, Austria · September 2022 – 2024
Selected through the 26-day C Piscine boot camp. Strong foundations in low-level C and memory management, UNIX systems programming, multithreaded concurrency (pthreads/mutex), shell internals and parsing, Linux system administration, and computer graphics (raycasting).

### Matura / Baccalauréat
**Lycée Français de Vienne** · Vienna, Austria · Graduated June 2018

## Technical skills

- **Programming languages:** Python, TypeScript, Bash/Shell, C
- **Cloud & data:** AWS (RDS, S3), Azure, Databricks
- **Infrastructure:** Kubernetes/OpenShift (OKD), Docker, Helm, Kustomize, Terraform, Linux
- **AI / APIs:** OpenAI, Claude (Anthropic), Gemini/Vertex, MCP, OAuth 2.0 / M2M
- **CI/CD:** GitHub Actions, Kargo, ArgoCD, GitLab CI
- **Security:** SAST, DAST, Secure-SDLC, DevSecOps
- **Frontend & testing:** Angular, TypeScript, Streamlit, Playwright (E2E)
- **Tools:** Git/GitHub, Jira, Confluence, VS Code
- **Databases:** PostgreSQL, Databricks SQL

## Languages

| Language | Level |
| --- | --- |
| German | Native |
| French | Native |
| English | C1 — Professional |
| Spanish | A2 — Basic |