Morris Zimmermann

I’m Morris Zimmermann, 20, based in Hamburg, working as a Junior AI Engineer at Circus Group.

I started in AI at 17 as a working student at FULLY AI. Within a year I was building cloud-based QA infrastructure on GCP and AWS, running red-team exercises on production LLM deployments, and developing the Supervisor AI Framework, a security layer against prompt injection, jailbreaks, and system-message exfiltration. When FULLY AI was acquired by Circus Group, I moved with the team.

My work is technical first. I don’t sell slides. I build things. That means writing code, designing systems, and getting into the details of how models actually behave (and misbehave). I’m equally comfortable in a Python script, a Svelte component, a Kubernetes cluster, or with a soldering iron in hand.

Outside work I run Atlas, a modular smart home platform built on MQTT and K3s. More infrastructure than product, which is probably what I enjoy most about it.

Experience

  1. Junior AI Engineer

    Circus Group Jun 2025 – present

    Building AI systems for robotics and food-service applications after FULLY AI’s acquisition by Circus Group. Technical lead for Circus XR Experience, an AR platform for external pitches. Supporting AI development at CIRCUS SE.

  2. AI Specialist

    FULLY AI (acquired by Circus Group) Jul 2024 – Jun 2025

    Developed the Supervisor AI Framework to protect against prompt injection, jailbreaks, and system-message exfiltration. Built a modular prompt engine for non-technical users. Led risk and compliance analyses for customer LLM deployments. Conducted AI penetration tests on internal deployments and prompts.

  3. Working Student, AI Security & Risk Mitigation

    FULLY AI May 2023 – Jun 2024

    Built a cloud-based QA center (Python, GCP, AWS) for continuous monitoring of LLM quality, security, and performance. Visualised one/multi-shot test results in Grafana dashboards for real-time quality assurance.

Skills

AI & LLMs
  • Prompt Engineering
  • AI Security / Red-teaming
  • Custom Solutions
  • Infrastructure
Programming
  • Python
  • Flask
  • TensorFlow
  • TypeScript
  • Svelte / SvelteKit
  • C#
  • SQL
Hardware & Embedded
  • Raspberry Pi (Pico, W2, 4)
  • ATmega
  • STM32
  • PCB Design
  • µPython
  • Custom Linux Images
  • MQTT
XR
  • Unity 3D
  • Meta Horizons / Quest
  • CAD Model Optimisation
  • VR & XR Solutions
DevOps & Infra
  • K3s / Kubernetes
  • Docker
  • GCP
  • AWS
  • CircleCI
  • GitHub Actions
AI Dev Tooling
  • Cursor
  • GitHub Copilot
  • OpenAI Codex

How I work

I work best on problems with real constraints. Vague briefs and open-ended sandbox projects don’t interest me as much as situations where something actually has to work: reliably, securely, on time. I’m direct, I prefer async communication, and I’d rather deliver something clean and small than something sprawling and half-finished.

Currently exploring

  • Agentic AI systems and multi-step tool use
  • AR/spatial computing (Unity, Meta Quest, Meta Horizons)
  • Low-power embedded Linux (custom images, read-only rootfs)
  • K3s and distributed systems at home-lab scale

Languages

German
Native
English
Fluent (C2)