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Jhonathan C.JC

Jhonathan C.

AI Governance (AIGP) Privacy Specialist

€1,032/day
Berlin, DE
15+ years

Average response time: 1 hour

About Jhonathan

I am one of a very small number of professionals in the world who is simultaneously a qualified Lawyer with 18 years of active legal practice, a Software Engineer, and an IAPP-certified AI Governance Professional (AIGP).

Most consultants in this space come from law or compliance. Very few
understand how data actually moves through AI systems at a technical level.
I do both — and I have the track record to prove it.

Currently Senior AI Governance Lead at Krisenchat, Germany's largest digital
mental health platform for minors, where I am the sole architect of EU AI Act
compliance for AI systems classified as high-risk under Annex III. Compliance
documentation approved by the Berliner Beauftragte für Datenschutz und
Informationsfreiheit and the Bundesministerium für Familie.

Previously built the first AI and Data Governance Framework at Zuse Institute
Berlin under Dr. Vikram Sunkara's Explainable AI for Biology group,
contributing a full ML pipeline (data processing to XAI to MLOps) to research
published in Scientific Reports (Nature portfolio).

What I deliver:

EU AI Act high-risk and limited-risk readiness assessments and implementation
GDPR and LGPD privacy engineering and programme architecture
ISO/IEC 42001 AIMS design and gap closure
DPIA, data mapping, and risk assessment for AI systems
Privacy engineering for ML pipelines including differential privacy and
synthetic data
Exec workshops, board briefings, and AI literacy training

Based in Berlin. Available for remote and on-site engagements across DACH
and EMEA.

Day rate: €1,100 (negotiable for longer engagements).
Availability: up to 4 days per week.
  • Portuguese

    Native or bilingual

  • English

    Fluent

  • German

    Conversational

Can work on-site
Berlin (up to 50km)

Experience

  • krisenchat
    Senior AI Governance - Compliance Manager
    DIGITAL AND IT
    June 2024 - Today (2 years)
    Berlin, Germany

    Design and manage data‑ and AI‑flow processes in close collaboration with product, engineering and legal stakeholders, ensuring that every step of the data‑and‑model lifecycle aligns with EU regulations, internal policies and overall product strategy.

    Provide detailed legal analyses and opinions for new product features, translating GDPR, LGPD and BSI/ISO technical norms into clear, testable engineering requirements.

    Establish, implement and continually improve an AI Management System (AIMS) under ISO/IEC 42001:2023—covering scope, leadership commitment, risk assessment, lifecycle controls, transparency and post‑market monitoring—to certify trustworthy AI practices and prove alignment with the EU AI Act.

    Execute top‑down privacy‑compliance strategies that map NIST Privacy Framework controls to corporate objectives, embedding privacy‑by‑design and explainable AI (XAI) checkpoints into every development sprint.

    Identify and mitigate risks in data acquisition, analytics, anonymisation and AI‑model bias, applying safeguards such as encryption, differential privacy and robustness testing, and documenting evidence for audits.

    Lead EU AI Act conformity preparation for high‑ and limited‑risk systems—performing risk tiering, compiling Annex IV technical documentation, planning CE‑mark steps and coordinating external assessments.

    Collaborate with product and engineering teams to convert governance requirements into user‑story acceptance criteria, definition‑of‑done checklists and automated compliance gates in CI/CD pipelines.
    ISO/IEC 42001  ISO 27001/27701 AI Act Compliance GDPR Compliance Audits AI Risk Management
  • Zuse Institute of Math and Data - Freie Universität Berlin
    AI Act Architect and Governance/ AI Scientist
    February 2024 - Today (2 years and 4 months)
    Berlin, Germany
    Develop the institute's first Data and AI Governance Framework, compliant with GDPR and the AI Act, establishing a standard for data protection (privacy by design) in advanced AI projects.

    Research legal standards and integrate insights across disciplines to form governance policies, enhancing the security and ethical management of extensive datasets.

    Design and implement risk assessment methodologies and data governance protocols that meet GDPR requirements, directly contributing to increased data integrity, data mapping and information security in ongoing AI research.

    Co-authoring an influential Machine Learning/AI Act research paper, in collaboration with the team leader.

    Developed Machine Learning pipelines and a Neural Network model aligned with the AI Framework, contributing to the enhancement of a project published in the journal Nature ('An interpretable data-driven prediction model to anticipate scoliosis in spinal muscular atrophy in the era of (gene-) therapies').
  • Bettencourt Financial Group - BFG
    Privacy Architect / AI Governance
    June 2022 - June 2024 (2 years)
    Phoenix, United States
    Developed GDPR-compliant frameworks for AI/ML projects, enhancing the ethical handling of sensitive datasets.

    Led a team that performed comprehensive AI/ML risk assessments to identify and mitigate compliance risks, ensuring 100% adherence to data protection laws and the AI ACT.

    Implemented privacy-by-design principles collaboratively across multiple development cycles, integrating GDPR compliance into new and existing web technologies and data analytics platforms.

    Implemented IT and data security protocols related to the safeguarding of sensitive and personal data in line with GDPR.

    Data Protection Impact Assessments (DPIA) to identify and mitigate risks related to personal data processing activities.

    Promoted GDPR training to enhance regulation awareness and ethical practices, which contributed to a great reduction in privacy-related incidents among tech teams.

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Education

  • B.S. in Software Engineering
    University of Applies Sciences
    2025
    B.S. in Software Engineering
  • Administrative Law (Specialization
    Signorelli
    2020
    Administrative Law (Specialization

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