# Configuration

> Edit this file with your personal details. Every skill reads this file.

---

## Personal Info

- **Name:** Dennis Thiessen
- **Degree suffix:** M.Eng.
- **Email:** dennis@thiessen.io
- **Phone:** +41 795 955 585
- **Location:** Bern, Switzerland
- **LinkedIn:** linkedin.com/in/dennis-thiessen
- **Google Scholar:** [leave blank — not applicable]
- **ORCID:** [leave blank — not applicable]
- **Website:** [URL or leave blank]

---

## Document Preferences

- **Resume pages:** 2
- **CV pages:** 5
- **Resume bullet variant:** 2L (all variable bullets are 2-line)
- **CV bullet variant:** 2L/3L mix
- **Skills config (resume):** 4-3-2-2-2 (13 lines, 5 groups)
- **Skills config (CV):** 4-4-3-3-3 (17 lines, 5 groups)
- **Immigration line:** [Update if needed — CV shows Swiss-based; confirm work authorization for target region]

---

## Provenance Flags

Track the publication status of your work. Skills check this table before every output.

| Item | Status | Correct Framing |
|------|--------|----------------|
| All work experience | professional/employed | Owned/built/led — full-ownership verbs where you were primary developer |
| RiskAhead app | personal project (discontinued) | "Personal project, 2015–2017" — not peer-reviewed, not published |
| Master's thesis (Tongji University) | academic — completed | "Master's Thesis, Tongji University, Shanghai" |
| VICE article mention | media coverage of RiskAhead | "Featured in VICE (Germany)" — not a publication |

---

## KB Corrections Log

Verified errors to never re-introduce. Add entries as you catch mistakes.

| Correction | Details |
|-----------|---------|
| Degree name | B.Eng. official name: "Information and Telecommunication Technologies". M.Eng. official name: "Computer Aided Engineering" with focus in Software Design and Software Engineering. Use "Software Design & Engineering" as the focus description on resumes — more recognizable than the official programme name. |
| Education dates | B.Eng. **Oct 2009 – Oct 2012** (start 10/2009, finished 01.10.2012). M.Eng. **Apr 2012 – Oct 2013** (01.04.2012 – 01.10.2013). Programmes overlap by design — do NOT "fix" the overlap. Both at Universität der Bundeswehr München. |
| Swisscom title | Senior: Oct 2023 – Apr 2025. Staff (Engineer IV): Apr 2025 – Present. Use "Staff Data, Analytics & AI Engineer" for current role; note promotion if space allows. |
| Swisscom data domains | Fulfillment and Product Analysis — use both when describing scope of pipeline work. |
| French + Italian in Zeugnis | Swisscom Zeugnis lists French and Italian — this is HR boilerplate, NOT accurate. Do NOT include on any resume or CV. Actual languages: German (native), English (fluent), Norwegian + Russian (basic, non-professional). |
| Swisscom Security Champion | NOT an award. It is a mandatory team role (security point of contact). Dennis holds the badge for 2025/2026 only — NOT "3 consecutive years." Do not frame as an award or honor. Only include when JD requires security experience. |
| LangChain | **NEVER USED — do not list.** Crept into Apple and Infineon resume outputs as a fabrication when "custom GPTs" was reframed to fit JD vocabulary. Verified GenAI toolchain: **Kiro** (AI IDE / spec-driven dev), **VS Code + Copilot**, **LiteLLM** (LLM API gateway — created/used APIs), **custom GPTs** with fed domain knowledge. Never substitute LangChain/LangGraph/LlamaIndex for these. |

---

## Role Types

Define the role types you're targeting. Each gets a bundle during setup.

| Role Name | Target Employers | Tier | Bundle File |
|-----------|-----------------|------|-------------|
| Staff / Senior Data Engineer | Tech companies, scale-ups, platform teams | 1 | bundle_data_engineer.md |
| Analytics Engineer | Data-driven companies, BI/analytics teams | 2 | bundle_analytics_engineer.md |
| ML / AI Engineer | AI product companies, R&D teams | 2 | bundle_ml_ai_engineer.md |
| Data Platform / Infra | Cloud-first companies, AWS-heavy orgs | 3 | bundle_data_platform.md |
| Semiconductor Data / AI Engineer | Semiconductor manufacturers, equipment makers (Infineon, ASML, GlobalFoundries, NXP, STMicro, Bosch) | 2 | bundle_semiconductor.md |

**Tier guide:** 1 = strongest evidence, full portfolio | 2 = strong with targeted emphasis | 3 = viable with careful framing

---

## Role-Type Decision Tree

Customize this to map JD keywords to your role types.

| If JD mentions... | Primary profile | Secondary (hybrid) |
|-------------------|----------------|-------------------|
| ETL, pipelines, Airflow, dbt, data warehouse | Staff/Senior Data Engineer | Analytics Engineer |
| ML inference, model deployment, MLOps | ML/AI Engineer | Staff Data Engineer |
| Dashboards, BI, stakeholder reporting | Analytics Engineer | Staff Data Engineer |
| AWS, Glue, Athena, Redshift, infrastructure | Data Platform / Infra | Staff Data Engineer |
| Blockchain, on-chain, Web3 | [add role type if targeting Web3] | — |

---

## FIXED Sections

List template sections that should NEVER be modified during generation.
These are copied verbatim from your template every time.

- Education
- Certifications (when listed as standalone section)
- Header block (name, contact, links)
- _[Add any other fixed sections]_

---

## Output Rules

- **Email in all outputs:** dennis@thiessen.io
- **Resume package:** 2 pages + 1-page cover letter
- **CV package:** 5 pages + 1-2 page cover letter
- **Output .tex files ONLY** — user compiles locally