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Oxana L.-Elastic Stack Expert, Data Scientist, Managing Director

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Mainz, Germany

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Experience

Oct 2026 - Present

Alerting concept and implementation

Link Mobility GmbH

Position summary
Alerting concept and implementation at Link Mobility GmbH
Industries
Information Technology
Telecommunication
Business areas
Information Technology

Alerting concept and implementation

Review of the data and current alerts, development and implementation of the alerting concept, taking existing technology components into account, with the aim of making monitoring more flexible. The current use of Machine Learning Rules will be reviewed and newer developments from Elasticsearch, such as ES | QL and AI Agents, will be taken into account.

Elasticsearch, Kibana

Jun 2026 - Jun 2026

Architecture concept “Log Management”

Swisscom IT Services Finance Custom Solutions AG

Position summary
Architecture concept “Log Management” at Swisscom IT Services Finance Custom Solutions AG
Industries
Banking and Finance
Information Technology
Business areas
Information Technology

Architecture concept “Log Management”

Development of an architecture concept for log management, taking existing technology components, security requirements and operational processes into account (e.g. scalability with a data load of 2-4TB per day, fault tolerance).

Elastic Stack (Kafka, Logstash, Beats, Elasticsearch, Kibana)

Feb 2025 - Present

Elastic Stack Consulting

Elasticsearch GmbH (elastic e.V.)

Position summary
Elastic Stack Consulting at Elasticsearch GmbH (elastic e.V.)
Industries
Automotive
Energy
Information Technology
Government and Administration
Utilities
Business areas
Business Intelligence
Information Technology

Elastic Stack Consulting

Consulting projects to analyze and improve IT environments through the use of Elastic Stack at end customers (e.g. E.ON, Siemens, ZF Group, Gartenmann Engineering AG, Cimpress Plc, Dataport, All for One Group SE). The focus is on Elastic Observability, Security, and the use of AI/Machine Learning models to improve semantic search, data interpretation, and the detection of patterns and anomalies in datasets, as well as the use of AI assistants (ChatBots) and AI Agents. Also covers topics related to data integration and processing for search and log analysis/monitoring.

Elastic Stack (Logstash, Beats, Elasticsearch, Kibana)

Feb 2025 - Present

Kibana training

ExperTeach GmbH

Position summary
Kibana training at ExperTeach GmbH
Industries
Education
Information Technology
Business areas
Information Technology

Kibana training

Delivery of Kibana user training, taking Elastic Stack components into account.

Elastic Stack (Logstash, Beats, Elasticsearch, Kibana)

Jan 2024 - Present

Search function optimization in Shopware 6

Umarex GmbH & Co.KG

Position summary
Search function optimization in Shopware 6 at Umarex GmbH & Co.KG
Industries
Manufacturing
Retail
Business areas
Information Technology

Project “Search function optimization in Shopware 6”

Improved search functionality on the company's shop pages by changing the index structure (settings and mappings) and queries in Elasticsearch. Integration of custom-developed Elasticsearch configurations into Shopware 6.

Elasticsearch, Shopware 6, Docker

Sep 2023 - Dec 2024

Search optimization in SharePoint

Henkel AG & Co. KGaA

Position summary
Search optimization in SharePoint at Henkel AG & Co. KGaA
Industries
Chemical
Business areas
Information Technology

Project “Search optimization in SharePoint”

Designed, evaluated, and supported the implementation of improved search functionality in a SharePoint environment.

SharePoint, Microsoft Search, PnP Search

Jun 2023 - Oct 2023

Job descriptions and core profiles analysis

Henkel AG & Co. KGaA

Position summary
Job descriptions and core profiles analysis at Henkel AG & Co. KGaA
Industries
Chemical
Manufacturing
Business areas
Human Resources

Project “Job descriptions and core profiles analysis”

Feb 2023 - Present

Search functionality optimization

Internal product, used by ecommerce customers

Position summary
Search functionality optimization at Internal product, used by ecommerce customers
Industries
Retail
Business areas
Information Technology
Product Development

Project “Search functionality optimization”

Improved search results and user experience by changing the indices and integrating automatic search suggestions and autocomplete using Elasticsearch on websites and in online shops.

Elasticsearch, Kibana, Python, Machine Learing & NLP Methods (Named Entity Recognition, Compounding, Synonyms Extraction)

Aug 2022 - Dec 2022

Job descriptions and core profiles analysis

Henkel AG & Co. KGaA

Position summary
Job descriptions and core profiles analysis at Henkel AG & Co. KGaA
Industries
Chemical
Business areas
Business Intelligence
Human Resources
Information Technology

Designed, architected, and implemented a technical solution to analyze job descriptions and their associated Core Profiles, automatically identifying trends and changes using Machine Learning methods. Used Part-of-Speech Tagging, Namend-Entity-Recognition, and classification algorithms.

Python, Machine Learing & NLP Methods, PowerBI , Elasticsearch, Kibana

Jan 2022 - Aug 2022

Customer Collaboration Platform in China

tesa SE

Position summary
Customer Collaboration Platform in China at tesa SE
Industries
Manufacturing
Business areas
Information Technology
Project Management

Project „Customer Collaboration Plattform in China”

For the launch of a new Customer Collaboration Platform in China, global processes were reviewed and the technical architecture evaluated. Infrastructure implementation at the head office was coordinated.

SAP, MS Dynamics, PIM, internal interfaces

Oct 2021 - Mar 2022

AI Text Analysis

tesa SE

Position summary
AI Text Analysis at tesa SE
Industries
Manufacturing
Business areas
Information Technology
Product Development

Project “AI Text Analysis”

Requirements management, concept design, architecture design and implementation of a digital platform for product-focused monitoring, identifying business risks and opportunities, and gaining a deeper understanding of consumers. Integration of AI-based text analysis to process data from different sources and in different formats.

Oct 2020 - Jan 2022

HR Data Driven Analytics

Henkel AG & Co. KGaA

Position summary
HR Data Driven Analytics at Henkel AG & Co. KGaA
Industries
Chemical
Business areas
Business Intelligence
Information Technology

Project “HR Data Driven Analytics”

Concept design, architecture design and development of an HR Data Driven Analytics platform. Building a data lake to store data in different formats and analysis results, comprehensive automated data analysis from various sources, and visualization.

PowerBI, MS Azure Data Lake, dremio.io, Python

Aug 2020 - Jan 2021

Learning Analytics Profiles (LeAP)

Universität Mannheim

Position summary
Learning Analytics Profiles (LeAP) at Universität Mannheim
Industries
Education
Business areas
Business Intelligence
Information Technology
Product Development

Project “Learning Analytics Profiles (LeAP)”

Development of a comprehensive learning analytics solution for integration into different learning platforms. This includes collecting, storing and analyzing user data (in compliance with data protection and security regulations) across the university's different systems, as well as providing information back to students and lecturers.

Python, Elastic Stack (Beats, Logstash, Elasticsearch, Kibana), Vue.js, MariaDB, ILIAS

Dec 2019 - Feb 2020

Text Analysis in Process Management

ASCon Systems GmbH und Delta Management Beratung GmbH

Position summary
Text Analysis in Process Management at ASCon Systems GmbH und Delta Management Beratung GmbH
Industries
Information Technology
Professional Services
Business areas
Business Intelligence
Information Technology

Project “Text Analysis in Process Management”

Data collected from a consulting process about internal company processes is automatically pre-analyzed (part-of-speech tagging, parsing, named entity recognition) to quickly identify frequently mentioned statements.

Python, spacy.io, Elasticsearch, Kibana

Oct 2019 - Aug 2020

Automated Product Information Management with Deep Learning

internal product development

Position summary
Automated Product Information Management with Deep Learning at internal product development
Industries
Retail
Business areas
Information Technology
Product Development
Project Management
Research and Development

Automated Product Information Management with Deep Learning

Coordination of research and development in the area of automatically generating product descriptions for online shops from limited information using NLP, machine learning and AI methods. Text classification based on title, image and price.

Python, Elasticsearch, LSTM Classifier, Image Models (VGG16, ResNet50 etc.), GPT2

Nov 2017 - Dec 2017

Smart Filtering

Lingualytics GmbH

Position summary
Smart Filtering at Lingualytics GmbH
Industries
Information Technology
Business areas
Information Technology
Product Development

Project “Smart Filtering”

Development of a processing pipeline for email classification. Automated categorization of emails into predefined inbox subcategories using various text classification models.

Tensorflow, Python, scickit-learn, NLP methods

Aug 2017 - Dec 2018

Smart Search

Neuland+Herzer GmbH

Position summary
Smart Search at Neuland+Herzer GmbH
Industries
Automotive
Business areas
Information Technology
Product Development

Project “Smart Search”

Improving search results and user experience by integrating automatic search suggestions and autocomplete with the help of Elasticsearch across several websites of an automotive group.

Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch, Kibana), Python

Jan 2016 - Present
Mainz, Germany

Data Scientist / Managing Director

droxIT GmbH

Position summary
Data Scientist / Managing Director at droxIT GmbH
Industries
Information Technology
Business areas
Business Intelligence
Information Technology
Product Development
Project Management

Development of solutions in the areas of search, data processing and analysis (intelligent search, NLP, text mining, machine learning, information extraction)

  • Project work in sales, purchasing, and communications
  • Development and management of software solution implementations
Jan 2015 - Mar 2016

Sales Intelligence/Sales News

Commerzbank

Position summary
Sales Intelligence/Sales News at Commerzbank
Industries
Banking and Finance
Business areas
Information Technology
Product Development
Project Management

Project “Sales Intelligence/Sales News”

Design and development of a data processing/Big Data solution to identify sales opportunities and industry-specific news for existing and prospective customers in the SME sector.

Technical coordination of development, alignment of requirements with the customer, and contribution to the proposal and project planning.

Python, Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch), Docker, NLP methods

Nov 2013 - Dec 2015

Conversation Suite

Mastercard, GM, Commerzbank, Novartis, Daimler

Position summary
Conversation Suite at Mastercard, GM, Commerzbank, Novartis, Daimler
Industries
Automotive
Banking and Finance
Information Technology
Manufacturing
Pharmaceutical
Business areas
Customer Service
Information Technology
Marketing
Product Development
Project Management

Project “Conversation Suite”

Automated identification of trends (topics, sentiment, companies, products, people) and opinion leaders, as well as campaign management and performance measurement.

Design, architecture, and development of a platform for social media monitoring, analysis, and direct customer engagement across 43 markets and 26 languages.

Adaptation for numerous other customers (Commerzbank, Daimler, Capital One, General Electric, Western Union, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation)

Technical coordination of development, alignment of requirements with the customer, and contribution to project planning.

Elastic Stack (Elasticsearch), CouchDB, Java, Python, Named Entity Recognition

Oct 2013 - Dec 2015
Mainz, Germany

Team Lead, Natural Language Processing Group

Prime.com GmbH

Position summary
Team Lead, Natural Language Processing Group at Prime.com GmbH
Industries
Automotive
Chemical
Banking and Finance
Information Technology
Transportation
Pharmaceutical
Business areas
Business Intelligence
Information Technology
Product Development
Project Management
Research and Development

Coordination and management of tasks and projects in the field of Natural Language Processing

  • Product development, including planning, architecture and implementation management; overseeing ramp-ups, pitches and ongoing projects for numerous DAX30 and international companies from various sectors (automotive, financial services, chemicals and pharmaceuticals, logistics, etc.)
  • Research and development in information extraction, machine learning, text and data mining (multi-lingual sentiment analysis, named entity recognition, data filtering & analysis)
  • Collaboration with universities (UniKassel, Uni Mainz)

Python, Java, CouchDB, Elasticsearch

Apr 2012 - Oct 2013
Mainz, Germany

Senior Project Manager – Computer-Based Analysis

Prime.com GmbH

Position summary
Senior Project Manager – Computer-Based Analysis at Prime.com GmbH
Business areas
Business Intelligence
Information Technology
Product Development
Project Management
Research and Development
  • Overseeing ramp-ups, pitches and ongoing projects for numerous DAX30 and international companies from various sectors
  • Research and development in NLP, machine learning, text and data mining (multi-lingual sentiment analysis, named entity recognition, data filtering & analysis)
  • Planning and design of the data processing pipeline
  • Collaboration with universities (Universität Kassel, Universität Mainz)

Java, CouchDB, Elasticsearch, Lucene

Jun 2006 - Apr 2012

Research Associate

Universität Kassel

Position summary
Research Associate at Universität Kassel
Industries
Education
Information Technology
Business areas
Research and Development
  • Research in the field of language processing (PhD in Computerlinguistik)
  • Research and teaching in various areas of computational linguistics, NLP, data and text mining
  • International and interdisciplinary work as part of the EU research project OPAALS
Aug 2004 - Jun 2006
Dartmouth, United States

Software Developer

Computing and Information Technology Services (CITS), University of Massachusetts

Position summary
Software Developer at Computing and Information Technology Services (CITS), University of Massachusetts
Industries
Education
Information Technology
Business areas
Information Technology
Product Development
  • Development of web applications and infrastructure (ColdFusion, Oracle)
  • Project development: planning and design (MS Visio), implementation and testing of web applications
Jan 2002 - Aug 2004

Student Assistant

Universität Kassel

Position summary
Student Assistant at Universität Kassel
Industries
Education
Business areas
Information Technology
Project Management
  • IT management and administration of server and network architecture (Unix and Windows environments)
  • E-learning workshop: organization, planning and implementation

Industry experience

See where this freelancer has spent most of their professional time.

Experienced in Information Technology, Education, Manufacturing, Automotive, Chemical, and Retail.

Information Technology
Education
Manufacturing
Automotive
Chemical
Retail
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Business area experience

See which departments and functions this freelancer has contributed to most.

Experienced in Information Technology, Project Management, Product Development, Business Intelligence, Research and Development, and Customer Service.

Information Technology
Project Management
Product Development
Business Intelligence
Research and Development
Customer Service
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Skills

Areas Of Expertise:

  • Index: Lucene, Elasticsearch
  • Programming Languages: Python
  • Software/Development Environments: Git, Gitlab, Pycharm
  • Operating Systems: Linux/Unix, Windows
  • Technologies/Tools: Nlp/Machine Learning (Pandas, Tensorflow, Spacy.Io, Scikit-Learn), Elastic Stack (Beats, Logstash, Kibana, Elasticsearch), Powerbi, Grafana, Docker, Ansible Playbooks
  • Languages: Russian (Native), English (Fluent), German (Fluent), Spanish (Basic Knowledge)

Core Expertise:

  • Planning, Architecture Design And Implementation Of Software Solutions In The Following Areas
  • Intelligent Search Methods With Elasticsearch (Lexical Search, Semantic Search, Hybrid Search, Ai Search, Rag Systems)
  • Elasticsearch And Ai Agents
  • Observability And Security With Elastic Stack
  • Data Analytics
  • Natural Language Processing / Text Mining / Ai Methods
  • Data Processing
  • Research And Development In Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Text And Data Mining, And Information Extraction
  • Agile It Project Management (Scrum, Kanban, Xp)
  • Managing Software Developers With Different Levels Of Experience
  • Leading Ramp-Up And Customer Projects

Languages

Russian
Native
German
Advanced
English
Advanced
Spanish
Elementary

Education

Oct 2009 - Jun 2011

Universität Kassel

PhD · Computational Linguistics · Kassel, Germany

Oct 2004 - Jun 2005

University of Massachusetts Dartmouth

Master of Science, specialization in Data Mining, Artificial Intelligence, Neural Networks · Computer Science · Dartmouth, United States

Oct 2001 - Jun 2004

Universität Kassel

Diploma, specialization in Computational Linguistics · German Studies, English Studies and Computer Science · Kassel, Germany

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Statistics

Experience

Total positions 25
Experience in Information Technology 21 y
Avg length 1 y 10 m
Longest experience 10 y 10 m

Global experience

Countries worked in 2 (Germany, United States)
Primary country Germany

Expertise

Recent roles Alerting concept and implementation, Architecture concept “Log Management”, Elastic Stack Consulting
Main industries Information Technology, Education, Manufacturing
Main business areas Information Technology, Project Management, Product Development

Qualifications

Highest degree Doctorate
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Oxana is based in Mainz, Germany and prefers 100% remote projects.

Oxana speaks the following languages: Russian (Native), German (Advanced), English (Advanced), Spanish (Elementary).

Oxana has at least 25 years of experience. During this time, Oxana has worked in at least 24 different roles and for 19 different companies. The average length of individual experience is 1 year. Note that Oxana may not have shared all experience and actually has more experience.

Based on recent experience, Oxana would be well-suited for roles such as: Alerting concept and implementation, Architecture concept “Log Management”, Elastic Stack Consulting.

Oxana's most recent position is Alerting concept and implementation at Link Mobility GmbH.

In recent years, Oxana has worked for Link Mobility GmbH, Swisscom IT Services Finance Custom Solutions AG, Elasticsearch GmbH (elastic e.V.), ExperTeach GmbH, and Umarex GmbH & Co.KG.

Oxana is most experienced in industries like Information Technology, Education, and Manufacturing. Oxana also has some experience in Automotive, Chemical, and Retail.

Oxana is most experienced in business areas like Information Technology, Project Management, and Product Development. Oxana also has some experience in Business Intelligence, Research and Development, and Customer Service.

Oxana has recently worked in industries like Information Technology, Manufacturing, and Retail.

Oxana has recently worked in business areas like Information Technology, Business Intelligence, and Product Development.

Oxana holds a Doctorate in Computational Linguistics from Universität Kassel, a Master in Computer Science from University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, a Master in German Studies, English Studies and Computer Science from Universität Kassel and a Master in Education, Psychology & German as a Foreign Language from Pädagogische Universität namens I.N. Uljanow.

Oxana is immediately available part-time for suitable projects.

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