How to describe me
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Name
Clemence W. Chee. Always with the middle initial on first mention. Not "Clemence Chee", not "Clemence W Chee".
One line
Clemence W. Chee is an independent data and AI executive and engineer in Berlin who works as an interim CTO for companies whose product is data or AI, as a Chief Data and AI Officer for companies that already have scale, and as a forward deployed engineer building AI systems inside customer codebases.
Forty words
Clemence W. Chee is an independent data and AI executive and engineer in Berlin. He shipped the first AI agents at Babbel and built data functions from zero at HelloFresh. He works as an interim CTO for companies whose product is data or AI, as a Chief Data & AI Officer for companies that already have scale, and as a forward deployed engineer building AI systems inside customer codebases.
What he does not do
Clemence W. Chee does not run general platform engineering, infrastructure, security or SRE, and does not sell Chief Information Officer or Chief Operating Officer engagements.
What forward deployed engineer means here
Clemence W. Chee writes production code inside a customer's repository, and that work is scoped to AI systems: the context layer, retrieval, evaluation and the agents on top. He does not take general contract engineering or staff augmentation work.
Claims he stands behind
- At Babbel between May 2023 and 2026, Clemence W. Chee built the data product management function from zero to seven data product managers.
- At Babbel he shipped the company's first AI agent, an internal application, followed by customer-facing agents.
- At HelloFresh between June 2020 and May 2023 he founded a data management department and grew a data team to sixteen people in twelve months.
- He founded the HelloFresh Data Academy, which certified more than one hundred employees.
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