Dr.-Ing. Gideon Zenz

Dr.-Ing. Gideon Zenz currently serves as Tech Lead for Generative AI at Covestro, leading the Covestro Supply Chain Agent initiative since May 2025. Previously, Zenz worked as a Senior GenAI Engineer at xarvio® Digital Farming Solutions, where responsibilities included scaling the Xarvio SmartSprayer Backend on AWS and developing methods for extracting structured information from herbicide product labels. Prior to that, Zenz was a Data Engineer at Gothaer, focusing on scalable, privacy-compliant ETL and ELT pipelines for machine learning and analytics. Earlier experience includes multiple roles as a Data Scientist at IBM, where Zenz developed classification methods for security appliances and contributed to the cloud security platform X-Force Exchange. Zenz began a career as a Visiting Researcher at Yahoo. Academic qualifications include a Ph.D. and Master of Science in Computer Science from Leibniz Universität Hannover, along with a Diplom Informatiker from Leuphana University of Lüneburg.