Software Engineer · Co-Founder & CTO

Lilia Gerber

I build software from product decisions to deployment. As Cebras’s sole founding engineer, I connect product design, architecture and full-stack development.

Currently building Cebras · Computer Science at TUM

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Selected engineering work

Selected work

A product I build as CTO, a machine-learning prototype, and education infrastructure in the field.

01 / Featured Product engineering

Cebras

Co-Founder & CTO

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An assessment and guidance platform. I own the technical build from product definition and UX through architecture, implementation and deployment as Cebras’s sole founding engineer.

Architecture Full-stack Assessments
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02 Applied machine learning · Prototype

Rebottle

Data pipeline and model tuning · Team hackathon project

At a 48-hour hackathon, our team built a bottle-recognition prototype. I prepared the image-processing pipeline and worked on fine-tuning its classifier.

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03 Education infrastructure · Field work

TeachMeTablet

Network and Wi-Fi infrastructure · Education initiative

Classroom setup in Tanzania for the TeachMeTablet project.

For TeachMeTablet, I helped set up local networks and Wi-Fi for tablet-supported classrooms in Tanzania. Connectivity, hardware availability and classroom needs shaped the implementation.

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From technical contributions to product ownership

I studied Computer Science at HTL Spengergasse in Vienna and started working professionally in software while still at school, gaining experience in consulting, computer vision and data engineering.

My early work focused on individual components and technical prototypes. Co-founding Cebras gave me responsibility for a complete product, from architecture and implementation to keeping it running as requirements change.

I enjoy work that connects engineering with people who understand a problem from another discipline—whether that's assessment design or education. Alongside Cebras, I study Computer Science at TUM.

Experience & education

Professional experience in applied AI, data engineering and software development, followed by product ownership at Cebras.

Professional experience

  • Cebras

    Co-Founder & CTO

    Sole founding engineer responsible for product UX, architecture, full-stack implementation, deployment and technical iteration.

    2025–present
  • Tietoevry

    Junior Solution Consultant

    Developed computer-vision prototypes, from preparing data to implementing and evaluating models.

    2022–2024
  • EOX IT Services

    Junior IT Engineer

    Contributed to Python data-preparation workflows for Sentinel-2 satellite imagery as part of the EOX team.

    2023–2024
  • Kontron

    Junior Software Consultant

    Worked on the UX and Angular frontend of an internal tool for searching and filtering tenders.

    2021–2022

Selected recognition

Austrian Youth AI Ambassador; part of the winning team in the ShapeTheFuture mobility challenge (AIrbagged).

Education

  • Since 2025 Technical University of Munich (TUM) Computer Science · Current studies
  • 2019–2024 HTL Spengergasse, Vienna Five-year technical secondary school · Computer Science (bilingual program)

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