👨💻 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
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
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
- 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