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\name{Dennis}{Thiessen}
\address{Bern, Switzerland}
\phone[mobile]{+41~795~955~585}
\email{dennis@thiessen.io}

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\recipient{To}{Kraken AI Infrastructure Team\\Payward Inc.\\Remote (Switzerland)}
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\opening{Dear Kraken AI Infrastructure Team,}
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I have been a Kraken customer since 2017, and in my free time I write Solidity smart contracts. So when I read the Senior Software Engineer, AI Infrastructure posting, the work itself is what I would want to do regardless of who was hiring: an agent-first execution layer at a crypto exchange where Rust took over the backend after Oxidizing Kraken, and where Kraken CLI just shipped as MCP-native infrastructure for Claude, Cursor, and Codex.

My most defining ML deployment was at Bosch Semiconductor in Dresden, where I designed and shipped the inference infrastructure (Docker, Kubernetes, Ansible) into a 24/7 wafer fab. Image classification ran continuously against production data, with no maintenance windows and hardware-in-the-loop constraints. That operational shape, where uptime is non-negotiable and every observability gap is a yield problem, is what I would carry into model-serving and agent infrastructure at Kraken.

At Swisscom, Switzerland's largest telco, I currently own Kubernetes-deployed Python data services on AWS (S3, Glue, Athena/Iceberg, Redshift, Airflow with CloudFormation IaC), Kafka-based streaming, and the on-call SLA that comes with Component Owner accountability. At Bosch I introduced the observability stack --- ELK with Kafka, Grafana, Prometheus, Loki --- the same pattern Oxidizing Kraken describes for keeping high-throughput async systems honest. I have also built custom GPTs and LiteLLM-routed LLM API integrations on a spec-driven Kiro toolchain to automate engineering workflows.

On Rust: my systems-level production background is C++ (Vizrt distributed video transcoding for CNN, BBC, Al Jazeera) and Python at scale. I am building Rust depth currently and not claiming production years I do not have.

I am based in Bern and remote-eligible for Switzerland. Long-time Krakenite as a customer; I would be glad to be one as an engineer.

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{Sincerely,\\
Dennis Thiessen, M.Eng.\\
Staff Data, Analytics \& AI Engineer\\
Swisscom (Schweiz) AG}

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