Bernhard Merkle

Bernhard Merkle is a Principal AI Architect and Microsoft MVP currently serving as Head of Forward Deployed Engineering at Blockbrain, an AI company based in Germany. He specializes in building production-grade agentic workflows and generative AI systems, with expertise in transitioning from RAG to Structured-Graph RAG architectures for industrial sensor environments. He also serves as a lecturer at Offenburg University of Applied Sciences, teaching topics related to model-driven software development, domain-specific languages, and AI/ML.