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title: "Experience"
description: "Where Simon Ole Wagenfuehrer has worked and what the work actually involved."
url: "https://wagenfuehrer.com/experience"
author: "Simon Ole Wagenfuehrer"
last_updated: 2026-11-03
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# Experience

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Overview of some of the roles I have had, contact me for references. Always interested in new opportunities, so feel free to reach out!

## Applied AI Engineer, Arcade AI

May 2026 – now, Paris, France + Remote

- Agent harness, evals and optimisation for an AI-native gaming cloud platform, plus design and backend systems such as the multiplayer editor.

## Contract Level Designer, Technical Designer & Project Lead, Valve Corporation

Dec 2020 – now, Remote

- Directed a 10-person team delivering Counter-Strike maps that reached 25M+ monthly users; feedback-driven updates lifted retention and ratings.

## Founders Inc. Canopy, Founder of Azothex

Mar – Jun 2026, San Francisco, USA + Remote

- Built a platform where companies can hire AI agents: AI-native MCP, OpenClaw plugin and API.

## Masters Dissertation Project, EY-Parthenon

Jun – Sep 2025, London, UK

- Automated 60% of analyst workflows with an AI agent, cutting turnaround time so consultants could focus on higher-value strategic work.
- Python, SQL and LangGraph to build scalable systems for data-driven decision-making.

## Teaching Assistant, Quantitative Methods I & II, Maastricht University SBE

2022 – 2023, Maastricht, Netherlands

- Delivered tutorials to 100+ students, improving course performance and feedback scores.

## Industrial Clerk Trainee, Rotational Program, CLAAS Selbstfahrende Erntemaschinen

2019 – 2021, Harsewinkel, Germany

- Rotated through supply chain, credit management, HR, operations planning, purchasing and pricing.
- Spearheaded the ISO 9001 certification project, improving process compliance and audit readiness.

## Skills

- **AI**: Claude Code & Codex power user, OpenClaw (self-hosted), and I use AI for pretty much everything now
- **Analysis**: Python, R, AMPL, SPSS
- **Business**: SAP, Excel, PowerPoint

## Languages

- German: Native
- English: Fluent, IELTS 8.5
- Mandarin Chinese: A1, learning

## Links

- [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/simon-ole-wagenfuehrer/)
- [How to reach me](https://wagenfuehrer.com/elsewhere)