Ludwig von Schoenfeldt

Computer Engineering @ UC San Diego · Apple SWE Intern · Edge AI Researcher

Designing resilient intelligent systems for conservation, healthcare, and consumer apps.

I lead cross-functional teams to deliver edge analytics platforms, ML-powered products, and full-stack experiences at scale. From wildlife bioacoustics with UC San Diego's Kastner Research Group to healthcare research with the Rady School of Management, my work bridges research and production.

Apple SWE Intern Cupertino · Summer 2025
NeurIPS 2024 Climate Change AI Workshop presenter
Portrait of Ludwig von Schoenfeldt

Experience

Leading multidisciplinary teams across research, product, and applied ML with a focus on measurable impact.

Software Engineering Intern

Apple · Cupertino · Jun 2025 – Sep 2025

Delivered Root Cause Analyzer, a full-stack macOS AI application surfacing ticketing insights.

  • Achieved 80% top-10 accuracy on 10K+ change tickets, cutting manual triage from about four hours to under 30 minutes.
  • Developed the end-to-end SwiftUI, Combine, Foundation, and SwiftData experience from initial research through internal deployment.
  • Boosted prediction precision by 15% via Stash API pull-request analysis across the top 10–50 root-cause candidates.
  • Shipped Code Fix Analysis recommendations that suggest remediation strategies for approved root causes.
  • Implemented hybrid local/API caching to keep historical investigations instantly accessible for cross-functional teams.
  • Built React, PostgreSQL, and Flask dashboards charting bug classes and change volumes for the Communications App organization.
  • Automated build telemetry ingestion with Kubernetes jobs that tap internal build tracking APIs.

Undergraduate Student Researcher

Engineers for Exploration & Kastner Research Group · San Diego · Oct 2023 – Present

Leading bioacoustic intelligence efforts with the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance and UC San Diego partners.

  • Manage and mentor a 15-student team spanning machine learning, software engineering, and data science tracks.
  • Deploy CNN and Transformer pipelines that classify Amazon rainforest bird calls alongside SDZWA collaborators.
  • Engineer PyTorch, Rust, and ONNX runtimes that deliver over 10× inference and training speedups for large acoustic models.
  • Ship Electron.js desktop tooling that unifies labeling workflows, inference jobs, and MySQL-backed data storage.
  • Develop embedded analytics on STM32 microcontrollers for low-power wildlife monitoring at KRG.
  • Coordinate a 10-person tinyML pod leveraging Kubernetes and AWS Batch to process thousands of audio hours with >95% accuracy — see Website, Report, Paper, and Article.

Research Assistant

Rady School of Management · UC San Diego · Aug 2023 – Jun 2024

Advanced a nationwide sleep study measuring incentive programs versus rest outcomes for 30K+ college participants.

  • Led cross-platform app development in React and Flutter serving 100+ U.S. campuses.
  • Integrated Fitbit, GCC, and Firebase services so longitudinal sleep data flowed seamlessly into analytics pipelines.
  • Ran NLP research on PPP policy datasets using NumPy, Pandas, TensorFlow, PyTorch, and Scikit atop SDSC's Narrows cluster.

Software Engineering Intern

doubleSlash Net-Business · Munich · Jul 2020 – Dec 2020

Scaled internal IoT analytics for automotive partners with Azure-first .NET services.

  • Built serverless image-processing pipelines with .NET, Microsoft Azure, C#, and FFmpeg to auto-generate daily timelapse analytics.
  • Created Azure DevOps workflows that retrieve, process, and catalog imagery and metadata from REST APIs.
  • Leveraged Azure Blob Storage and Durable Functions to productionize internal tooling end-to-end.

Head of Software Development

TwoTronic GmbH · Meitingen · Feb 2020 – Dec 2020

Led multi-camera vehicle scanning systems spanning Mercedes-Benz, Porsche, and Amazon logistics operations.

  • Directed a five-engineer team building damage-detection platforms that automatically classify vehicle imagery (Website).
  • Re-trained VGG-19 models with 50TB+ of telemetry on custom supercomputers, surpassing 90% accuracy for Mercedes-Benz and Amazon warehouses (Github).
  • Developed a Flutter-based Porsche internal App Store experience to locate scans under logistics leadership mentorship (Letter).
  • Architected low-latency REST APIs and streaming data pipelines ingesting 2TB+ of daily telemetry from 20+ European scanners.

Products & Flagship Projects

Commercial launches and research-driven tooling that blend usability with intelligent automation.

PaintCalcArt

Flutter App Store launch with 15K+ downloads and 500+ daily artists, estimating mural paint needs via custom computer vision models.

Flutter TensorFlow PyTorch Firebase BigQuery
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Growth Planner

Mindfulness-focused planner with 10K+ downloads and 300+ daily active users, engineered in Flutter with SOLID and TDD.

Flutter SOLID TDD
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Research & Recognition

Driving interdisciplinary collaborations and sharing outcomes across academic and developer communities.

NeurIPS 2024 · Climate Change AI Workshop

Presented HA Deep Learning Approach to the Automated Segmentation of Bird Vocalizations from Weakly Labeled Crowd-sourced Audio.

Hackathons & Rapid Prototyping

Built award-winning experiences across LA Hacks, MIT Reality Hack, hackaTUM, and Oerlikon Digital Hub with cross-functional teams.

  • TripGenie · Led Flutter + Google Cloud build at LA Hacks 2023, powering AI trip planning with OpenAI assistants.
  • gestureAR · Directed Unity/MRTK storytelling at MIT Reality Hack to teach culturally-aware gestures on HoloLens.
  • Civa · Co-created a Dialogflow + Firebase crisis assistant at hackaTUM to surface verified resources in real time.
  • “Screw This” · Won Oerlikon Digital Hub’s computer vision challenge with an OpenCV hardware rig for drill-bit QA.

Education

University of California, San Diego

B.S. Computer Engineering · Expected Jun 2026

Focusing on deep learning research, model compression, and intelligent systems through the Jacobs School of Engineering.

Activities & Societies: AMC · IEEE · Engineers for Exploration · Kastner Research Group. Relevant Coursework: Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Computer Vision, Linear Systems, Parallel Computing.

Technical Fluency

Tooling I rely on to deliver performant experiences across research and production.

Languages

Python C++ Objective-C Swift SQL Java Dart Assembly C# Kotlin CUDA/OpenCL Rust

Frameworks & Tools

OpenCV AJAX PyTorch TensorFlow Microsoft Azure CI/CD Docker Git SwiftUI NumPy Firebase Flutter

Focus Areas

Machine Learning Deep Learning Computer Vision Model Compression Edge AI tinyML Parallel Computing