Kevin Meisel

Kevin Meisel

Technology & Business

Stuttgart, Germany

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I study Information Systems in Stuttgart, spent a year in San Diego, and interned at Mercedes-Benz and PwC. I like building things that solve real problems, connecting business needs with the right technology, and learning something new along the way. When I'm not doing that, I'm probably hiking, lifting, or testing some new AI tool.

Education

B.Sc. Information Systems Double Degree University of Stuttgart & University of Hohenheim

Focus Areas

  • Applied AI
  • Data & Analytics
  • Product Management
  • Design Thinking
  • Cloud Computing

Interests

  • Photography
  • Strategy Games
  • Hiking
  • Sailing
  • Gym
Kitty

Experience

Co-Founder B2G Startup

stapel.ai

Jan 2026 · Stuttgart, Germany

  • Building AI software to optimize public tenders

Intern Lean-Production Consulting

Mercedes-Benz AG

Jun 2025 - Oct 2025 · Stuttgart, Germany

  • Team: Global Initiatives & Digital Excellence

Working Student Assurance

PwC Germany

Nov 2022 - Apr 2023 · Stuttgart, Germany

  • Service Line: Industrial Services

Education

B.Sc. Information Systems

University of Stuttgart

Oct 2022 - Present · Stuttgart, Germany

  • Top 5% of cohort
  • Jointly Awarded Double Degree with University of Hohenheim
  • Specialization: International and Strategic Management

B.Sc. Information Systems

University of Hohenheim

Oct 2022 - Present · Stuttgart, Germany

  • Focus on Business Administration and Economics

Study Abroad Year

San Diego State University (SDSU)

Aug 2024 - May 2025 · San Diego, USA

  • 4.0 GPA
  • Classes in Innovation, Cyber Security and AI

German Abitur

Gymnasium Plochingen

Aug 2020 - Jul 2022 · Germany

  • Final Grade: 1.7 (German Grading Scale)

Certifications & Scholarships

Baden-Württemberg Scholarship

Baden-Württemberg Foundation

Sep 2024

McKinsey Forward Program

McKinsey & Company

Aug 2024

AWS Academy Cloud Security Foundations

Amazon Web Services

Nov 2024

Projects

San Diego State University

Fine-tuned an LLM for cost-efficient meeting summarization, including an end-to-end evaluation pipeline and structured hyperparameter optimization. Achieved a 4x improvement in summary quality compared to the base model while maintaining identical inference costs.

LLM Fine-tuningPythonHugging FaceNLP

Personal Project

Built and evaluated a reusable AI skill that transforms raw customer interview notes into a prioritized experiment backlog with testable hypotheses. Benchmarked across multiple LLMs, achieving 100% accuracy with Sonnet while reducing token usage by 38%.

Prompt EngineeringLLM EvaluationProduct Discovery

Intercultural Mentorship Program

2024

University of Stuttgart

Personal 1:1 mentoring for an international student, helping with academic integration, cultural adjustment, and navigating university life in Germany.

MentoringCross-cultural Communication

Skills

Digital Tools & Technologies

Java
Python
SQL
Git
Docker
Excel
PowerPoint
Power BI
Databricks
Figma
Markdown
Hugging Face
Claude Code
Jira
MCP
AWS
Cloudflare

Areas of Expertise

Applied AIData Engineering & AnalyticsDesign ThinkingProduct ManagementRequirements EngineeringCloud ComputingStrategy DevelopmentManufacturing

Languages

German C2 Native
English C1 Advanced

Soft Skills

InitiativeIndividualizationStakeholder Communication