Nico Voigt

GenAI Squad Lead | AI Strategy, Enablement & Governance

Nico Voigt

I help regulated organizations turn GenAI into measurable value - fast, secure, and adopted.

AI experience: 7+ yearsInternal GenAI chatbot users: 2,000-3,000+Training formats designed: 5

About

From hands-on ML to enterprise GenAI transformation.

I combine strategy, enablement, and delivery to move AI from pilot mode into daily business value.

GenAI Squad Lead at Amprion with 7+ years of AI experience - driving enterprise GenAI transformation end-to-end.

Strong mix of hands-on delivery (ML, data pipelines, LLM/RAG/agents) and strategic orchestration (roadmaps, OKRs, operating model).

Adoption-first: designed training programs at scale, built internal communities, and translate complex tech into usable products.

AI experience

7+ years

Internal GenAI chatbot users

2,000-3,000+

Training formats designed

5

Employees enabled

500+

Team leadership

2 internal / 5 external

Career

Building AI products in regulated environments.

From ML research to enterprise GenAI programs: strategy, governance, and hands-on delivery.

Apr 2024 - Present

Squad Lead GenAI

Amprion GmbH

Hamburg, Germany

  • Lead enterprise-wide GenAI transformation: strategy, portfolio, MVP/pilots, rollout, and scalable operations.
  • Enable adoption through 5 training formats (500+ participants) and an internal AI community.
  • Consult internal teams on compliant, production-ready agentic AI solutions (RAG/agents/platform patterns).
  • Drive governance and stakeholder alignment in a regulated critical-infrastructure context (including works council agreements).
  • Continuously optimize delivery processes to reduce time-to-value while keeping guardrails in place.
GenAI StrategyAgentic AIRAGOperating ModelEnablementStakeholder ManagementGovernance
Talk: AI Agents at Amprion (AI and Data Summit Berlin, 2025)

Apr 2022 - Mar 2024

Data Scientist

Amprion GmbH

Dortmund and Hamburg, Germany

  • Built and deployed AI models and data pipelines.
  • Implemented and rolled out an internal GenAI chatbot (later scaled to thousands of users).
  • Transitioned from hands-on development to product ownership and cross-functional delivery.
PythonMLData PipelinesLLMsProduct OwnershipAgile Delivery

Dec 2021 - May 2024

Founder / Exploration

Camino (Startup Exploration)

Germany

  • Validated a startup idea via market research (20+ interviews, 150-respondent survey).
  • Built pitch deck, financial model, and investment memo; held 10+ meetings with accelerators and funding bodies.
  • Stopped after validation (decision-driven, evidence-based).
Market ResearchBusiness ModelingStrategyStorytelling

Jul 2020 - Mar 2022

Student Research Assistant and Master's Thesis

Fraunhofer ISE

Freiburg, Germany

  • Applied reinforcement learning to optimize industrial energy management.
  • Developed energy system control for Smart District Durlach.
Reinforcement LearningEnergy SystemsPythonApplied Research

Apr 2018 - Mar 2020

Research Associate (Energy Economics)

Hochschule Osnabruck (University of Applied Sciences)

Osnabruck, Germany

  • Researched ML methods for energy system optimization.
  • Led a seminar: Introduction to Energy Economics Modeling with Python.
TeachingPythonEnergy EconomicsMachine Learning

Jul 2013 - Sep 2016

Industry Placements

ABB Automation Products GmbH (Dual Study Rotations)

Various locations

  • Rotations across Supply Chain, Industrial Engineering, and R&D; focus on analysis, process optimization, and QA.
  • Bachelor thesis: supply chain risk management system (risk-aware decision support).
Process OptimizationSupply ChainRisk ManagementOperations

Projects

Selected builds from product and automation work.

Three projects that reflect how I build: practical scope, clear architecture, and fast iteration.

Fitness PWA (Build-in-Public)

A lightweight Progressive Web App to track workouts, templates, and progress - built largely with AI coding agents.

pwareacttypescriptbuild-in-publicai-coding-agents

Automated Receipt to Personal Finance Ledger

End-to-end processing of receipts, from photo capture to structured entries, using OCR and LLMs.

automationocrllmlangchainpersonal-finance

AmprionGPT (Enterprise GenAI Chatbot)

Internal GenAI chatbot scaled to thousands of employees, including retrieval-augmented variants and governed operations.

enterpriseraggovernanceenablementregulated

Beyond Work

What keeps me curious outside software.

Personal interests shape the way I approach product building: disciplined, playful, and always learning.

Sports and Training

Bouldering/climbing, road cycling, and kickboxing. I also build small tools to analyze training data.

Salsa

Salsa dancing is my reset button: focus, rhythm, and community.

Reading

I read across AI, psychology of attention, negotiation, and systems thinking.

Travel

Curiosity for cultures and places fuels my learning mindset in tech as well.