Chad Saglam

Data & ML engineer in Zürich, Switzerland. Software Engineer at Init7 (Swiss fiber ISP): ETL pipelines over 3.4M+ records, churn prediction and customer segmentation models in production. Founder of ChaDev, building Buchhaltung, a bookkeeping app for Swiss SMEs with local, privacy-first AI where the model suggests and a human confirms. Training small GLM-style code models from scratch in Code Model Lab and testing them on real bookkeeping tasks. Interests: small language models · code models · local inference on Apple Silicon (MLX, Ollama, llama.cpp) · fine-tuning & LoRA · evaluation · RAG · tabular ML · data quality · AI for Swiss SMEs (DE/EN/TR)