👨‍💻 Engineering Experience

Project Lead Data Engineering @ DB Regio AG
(August 2023 - Present)

Head of Data Platform / Engineering Manager @ Otto Group data.works GmbH
(June 2021 - July 2023)

Senior Data Architect @ Otto Group data.works GmbH
(March 2019 - May 2021)

Data Architect @ Otto (GmbH & Co KG)
(June 2016 - February 2019)

(for more details, see below)

📌 On The Side

Maintainer > BigQuery Extension for Visual Studio Code

Maintainer > LaTeX Class for typesetting exercise sheets

Lecturer @ Hamburg University of Applied Sciences
(March 2013 - May 2016)

Lectures and Labs: Theoretical Computer Science
Lectures and Labs: Logic and Computability

🛠 Tools of Trade

Google Cloud Platform BigQuery, AppEngine, Cloud Dataflow, Datastore, Google Kubernetes Engine, IAP, Cloud Storage

Languages Bash, SQL, Clojure, Java, Scala, Python, terraform, Typescript

Tools Visual Studio Code, Emacs ♥, git, Linux

👨‍🎓 Education

Dr.rer.nat. in Computer Science @ Universität zu Lübeck (2011-2017)
Thesis: On the Space and Circuit Complexity of Parameterized Problems

University Didactic Certificate (Level 3 / Professional) @ Universität zu Lübeck (2015)

Diploma in Computer Science @ Universität zu Lübeck (2005-2011)
Thesis: Anwendungen monadischer Logik zweiter Stufe auf Probleme beschränkter Baumweite und deren Platzkomplexität

Philips Best Bachelor Award @ Universität zu Lübeck (2013)
Award for best intermediate diploma

💬 Languages

German: native
English: C1.2

📧 Contact

Email / LinkedIn

🔍 More detailed list of things/projects/products I did/worked on in my professional career

Project Lead Data Engineering

Creating data applications for an improved customer experience and enterprise performance management

Head of Data Platform / Engineering Manager

Leading an awesome team of 14 (Senior) Data Engineers, (Senior) Cloud Engineers, Business Intelligence Engineers working on Otto Groups Retail Data Platform

Senior Data Architect

Building, running, and maintaining ETL/ML pipelines predicting order amounts for workforce planning in warehouses
Building, running, and maintaining a data science platform used to predict package returns in warehouses
Product owner of group-wide data pool of customer data, transaction data, product data, web-tracking data
Product owner of group web tracking solution
Development of real-time data ingestion pipelines for web-tracking data
terraform, Google Cloud Platform (BigQuery & BigQueryML, Google Kubernetes Engine, Stackdriver, Cloud Storage, Cloud Pub/Sub), bash, Argo, Python & Jupyter Notebooks, Office 365, JIRA, Confluence, Miro

Data Architect

Building, running, and maintaining of pipelines for computation of profile features for retail media services
Building, running, and maintaining of a GDPR-compliant analytics system for customer segmentation and selection used for print marketing
Scala, terraform, Google Cloud Platform (BigQuery, App Engine, Datastore, Cloud Functions, IAP, Google Kubernetes Engine, Stackdriver, Cloud Storage), bash, Argo, Hive, Office 365, JIRA, Confluence, Miro