Viola Kempa Say hello

I design it, then I build it.

About

Both sides are real material from my projects. They only mix in the middle, where I work.

Hi, I’m Viola.
A designer who also engineers.

I love building products, from the first sketch to the code that ships them.

I started in interaction design and slowly moved closer to the code and the data.

Portrait of Viola Kempa.
Based in
Bavaria
Works at
IBM Deutschland, Munich
Speaks
German, English
Studying
MSc Data Science and ML
Fig. 1 · The builder Not to scale

Experience.

Four places, newest first, with study running alongside.

  1. Since Oct 2025 · now Munich

    IBM Deutschland Strategy designer / AI engineer · Master@IBM

    Turning business problems into AI product concepts, then moving from strategy into hands-on AI engineering and ML prototypes.

  2. Feb to Jul 2025 Weissach

    Porsche AG User interaction · Display and operation

    Interaction concepts for the in-car HMI, prototyped and usability-tested inside an existing design system.

  3. Oct 2023 to Jan 2025 Berlin

    HeyJobs Product manager · Working student

    Owned search and recommendation. Ran A/B tests and worked on ranking and data structure, across product, data science and engineering.

Study, alongside

Since Sep 2025 · to 2027 MSc Data Science and Machine Learning Tomorrow University

Thesis Aug 2025 BA Interaction Design CODE University, Berlin · final grade 1.5

What I bring.

Design
Interaction design, prototyping, usability testing, design systems, HMI
Frontend
React, Next.js, TypeScript, Tailwind, Framer Motion, Sanity, Vercel, HTML and CSS
Machine learning
Python, classical ML, NLP and transformers, evaluation and fairness, A/B testing
Product
Discovery, specs, search and ranking, cross-functional work

Looking for

Design engineer and AI product engineer/manager roles, in DACH or remote.

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