Data & AI · Bern

I've run a bakery, a coffee operation and a warehouse. Now I build the data and AI tools behind them.

Industrial engineer, then operations lead, now building AI tools. Currently doing an M.Sc. in Data Science at BFH.

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Leo in a blue cap at the take-away window of a café
a month no longer spent checking overtime · LeBread
4 h
AI cost per request vs v1*
−90%
faster: Spark DataFrame on Parquet vs RDD on CSV
5.3×
countries worked in: 🇲🇽 🇺🇸 🇩🇪 🇨🇭
4

* Cost per request: early numbers, being measured.

Work

Two projects. One is in daily use at a bakery café, the other is from my master's.

AI engineering · in production

LeBread Ops

A Telegram assistant that replaced a paper overtime sheet at a bakery café in Bern.

4 h/month saved

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Data engineering · BFH coursework

Garage data lake

A small data lake in Docker, queried with Spark straight from object storage.

5.3× faster

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Journey

Food and coffee run through all of it. A bakery with my dad in Guadalajara, coffee in Chicago, logistics in Germany. Now AI for a bakery café in Bern.

  1. 08/2019 – 06/2023Guadalajara, Mexico

    B.Sc. Industrial Engineering · Tecnológico de Monterrey (ITESM)

    GPA 3.7/4.0. University projects on lean processes, data analytics for decisions and production-line improvement with Uber, José Cuervo, FLEX and ODEM. These were learning projects, part of the degree.

  2. Co-founded 2020 · still open todayGuadalajara, Mexico

    Kolter Bakery · co-founder

    Started it with my dad. A bakery inspired by the German Konditorei, with less sugar. Fitness is part of the concept.

  3. 04/2023 – 12/2023Chicago, USA

    VIGO Coffee · Operations Manager (Acting COO)

    My first job after university, 9 months long. I set up a lean supply chain and a loyalty and promotion programme. VIGO is still running; I moved on.

    Raw-material cost 35% → 25% · waste 15% → 7% · recurring customers +70% (100 → 170)

  4. 05/2024 – 10/2024Stuttgart, Germany

    KPMG Consulting · Logistics & ERP Systems Intern Consultant

    Wrote Power BI queries across several databases for supply-chain KPI dashboards. Supported an SAP S/4HANA migration.

  5. 11/2024 – 10/2025Frankfurt, Germany

    BUNCA Coffee · Logistics Lead (Head of Logistics)

    Built a reorder system in Excel/VBA with dynamic reorder points, and Power BI dashboards for the warehouse. Planned shipments across Europe and led the warehouse team.

    Shortages −20% · lead times −50% in Germany, −25% across Europe

  6. 01/2026 – todayBern, Switzerland

    Recuro · Founder & AI Automation Developer

    AI automation for small gastronomy businesses. First client: LeBread, a bakery café in Bern. Kolter to LeBread: back in a bakery, this time writing the software.

    4 h/month saved at LeBread

  7. 09/2026 – todayBern, Switzerland

    BFH · M.Sc. Data Science (in progress)

    Machine learning and neural networks (TensorFlow/Keras, CNNs), data engineering (Apache Spark, Docker), databases (PostgreSQL).

    Spark on Parquet: 5.3× faster

Leo on a street in Zurich with a Swiss flag

Skills

Each one with where I've used it.

Data & ML

  • Pythonin production · LeBread · BFH coursework
  • SQL / PostgreSQL / SQLiteLeBread (SQLite) · BFH (PostgreSQL)
  • Apache Spark (DataFrame, Spark SQL)BFH coursework · Garage data lake
  • TensorFlow / KerasBFH coursework
  • JupyterBFH coursework
  • DockerBFH coursework · Garage data lake

AI & automation

  • LLM agents and tool use (Claude API)in production · LeBread
  • Telegram Bot APIin production · LeBread
  • Google APIs (OAuth)in production · LeBread
  • pytest / TDDLeBread · 1,700+ tests
  • AI-assisted development: Claude Code, MCP servers (Telegram, Higgsfield)daily · LeBread debugging · web projects
  • Web pages (HTML, CSS, JavaScript)personal projects

Analytics & business

  • Power BIKPMG · BUNCA
  • Excel / VBABUNCA
  • SAP S/4HANAKPMG
  • LeanVIGO · BUNCA · ITESM
Leo in a cardigan at a café table

Off the clock

  • Coffee. Two coffee companies on my CV, and it's still the best part of the morning.
  • Gastronomy and cooking. The plates below are mine.
  • Bowling, whenever there's a free lane.
  • Fitness. Same reason Kolter bakes with less sugar.
  • Beet and citrus salad, cooked by Leo
  • Zucchini roses on sourdough, cooked by Leo
  • Duck on risotto, cooked by Leo
  • Caramelised pear in green soup, cooked by Leo
Cooked and plated by me.

Contact

I'm looking for data and AI roles in Bern, Zurich, Basel or remote in Switzerland. Email reaches me fastest.

Portrait of Leo Neufeld
  • Bern, Switzerland
  • EU citizen · B permit
  • English and Spanish (native) · German C1 · Italian B2

CV in English (PDF) CV in German (PDF)