Press
kit.
For journalists and event organisers. Everything here may be quoted and used with attribution. Requests get a personal answer, usually within a day.
Photos and
monogram.
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What I can speak about,
from practice.
For interviews, expert quotes, panels and talks. In German or English.
AI in small and mid-sized companies, without the hype
Where language models remove real work in a business, and where they only add cost and risk.
Digital sovereignty
Running software and data on servers in Germany instead of US clouds: what it takes, what it costs, what it changes under GDPR.
Cloud security
Hardening cloud setups, from experience as AWS Cloud Security Officer in the energy sector.
Starting young
From a first game at thirteen and Jugend forscht to building software for companies.
Facts
and bio.
- Name
- Fabian Faraz Farid
- Born
- July 9, 2001
- Based in
- Mönchengladbach, Germany
- Role
- AI Solutions Engineer
- Education
- Computer science, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
- Previously
- adesso SE, Soptim AG (AWS Cloud Security Officer)
- Languages
- German, English, Dari
Please use the full name, Fabian Faraz Farid. There is another person called Fabian Farid.
One sentence
Fabian Faraz Farid (born 2001) is an AI solutions engineer from Mönchengladbach who shipped his first commercial game at thirteen.
Short bio
Fabian Faraz Farid, born in 2001, is a software engineer from Mönchengladbach. He shipped his first commercial game at thirteen and in 2019 won first prize in Mathematics/Computer Science at the regional round of Jugend forscht Niederrhein. He studied computer science at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, worked in consulting at adesso SE and spent two years at Soptim AG building software for the German power grid, where he was also AWS Cloud Security Officer. Today he works as an AI solutions engineer.
Written about
elsewhere.
- Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf · 2023
XAI unter Adversarial Attack: Evaluation von Erklärungen für manipulierte Eingaben
Thesis on explainable AI under adversarial attack, listed by the Software Engineering and Programming Languages group.
- Unternehmerschaft Niederrhein · 2019
Zweite Preise und Sonderpreise für niederrheinische Jungforscher/innen beim Landeswettbewerb von Jugend forscht
Jugend forscht NRW state round 2019: special prize, a research internship at the Leibniz Institute for High Performance Microelectronics (IHP).
- Unternehmerschaft Niederrhein · 2019
Erfolgreiche Schülerinnen und Schüler aus Mönchengladbach bei Jugend forscht
Press release on the 2019 regional round, with the official winners list.
- Rheinische Post · 2019
Gladbacher Sieger bei Jugend forscht
First prize in Mathematics/Computer Science at Jugend forscht Niederrhein 2019 for “Two Men Dungeon”, a game to help students with autism (with Jonas Michael Broeckmann), plus the User Centered Design special prize.
A short note
is enough.
Interviews, background talks, expert quotes and talks, in German or English. Or by email: kontakt@farazfarid.com