Apache Spark Experts in Frankfurt

• Supporting the International Web Presence of the BA (IntWeb) project in the area of quality management, with the aim of taking responsibility for the quality of processes and project results while considering BA standards. The main objectives of the project are to give professionals abroad a quick overview of their opportunities for moving to Germany and to enable them to take the necessary steps consistently and with digital support by providing access to services.

• Defining the general guidelines in the QA handbook

• Summarising test results in QA reports for PLA

• Analysing project results for improvement opportunities

• Quality management of requirements analysis (particularly processes, methods, and tools)

• Ensuring compliance with SERA requirements

• Creating a cross-project test concept

• Agreeing on sprint completion reports

• Formal review of work results in accordance with requirements and/or the project plan

• Contact person for internal audit, external audits by auditors, or BRH (Federal Court of Audit)

• Technologies: JIRA, Confluence, MS Office, GitLab, Kubernetes

• Led discovery phase and POC for Shopware to Shopify Plus migration across EMEA markets, evaluating platform suitability, technical architecture, and multi-brand/multi-country capabilities against business requirements.
• Designed reference architecture for Shopify Plus implementation incorporating headless front-end patterns (Vue.js, Nuxt.js), CMS integration (Magnolia), and Azure middleware (APIM, Functions, Logic Apps, Service Bus) for 11 EMEA markets.
• Defined migration strategy analyzing data mapping, cutover approach, and zero-downtime deployment patterns using Varnish caching, GitOps pipelines, and CI/CD orchestration across six vendor teams.
• Architected multi-tenant Shopify Plus governance model with centralized admin, localized storefront customization, and compliance controls (GDPR, data residency).
• Prototyped AI-driven search optimization (LLM.txt, JSON-LD) for product discoverability in Google AI results, demonstrating post-launch performance opportunities.
• Defined EMEA expansion roadmap for 15+ markets through C-level strategic workshops, identifying phased rollout, market-specific configurations, and resource requirements.
• Tech Stack: React, Nuxt.js, Vue.js, Magnolia CMS, Shopware, Shopify Plus, Azure (APIM, Functions, Logic Apps, Service Bus, Front Door), Varnish, SAP, MS Dynamics, Docker, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions, PostgreSQL, Kafka

Independently built a data platform with cross-system process monitoring.

• Designed the Bronze/Silver/Gold architecture and Python-based pipelines for diverse operational sources.
• Cleaned, harmonized, and validated data; processed and stored it in Parquet format.
• Tracked data history and built business-focused fact and dimension models for traceable reporting.
• Automated data delivery with Python and Power Automate (desktop and cloud); used SharePoint for archiving and data access.
• Developed the Power BI solution from data preparation through to visualizing process statuses, work progress, and deviations.

Technologies: Python, SQL, Parquet, Power BI, Power Query, Power Automate, SharePoint, Copilot

Statistical Forecasting Algorithm

• Improvement of an statistical probabilistic forecasting algorithm for sales + evaluation
• Migration from R/On-premise to Python/Snowflake
• Productionalization on Snowflake in cooperation with data engineers & DevOps

Monitoring Dashboard

• Data engineering for preparation & provisioning of necessary data/resources on Snowflake
• Development & deployment of a Streamlit dashboard in Snowflake

ML-based Probabilistic Forecasting on Vertex AI

• Development of a ML-based probabilistic forecasting algorithm from scratch
• Implementation of MLOps pipeline in Kubeflow on Google Cloud Vertex AI

Tech Stack: Python, Snowflake/Snowpark, R, Streamlit, Gitlab/Gitlab CICD, Terraform, Google Cloud, Vertex AI (aiplatform SDK, gcloud CLI, feature store, model registry, etc), kubeflow

• Led design, development, and deployment of data solutions supporting a major pharma acquisition for Takeda Pharmaceutical Company, delivering transparency reporting systems across Azure,Databricks (Python and Shell Scripting) platforms.
• Owned,Designed and developed scalable ELT pipelines to process Customer and Product data using Azure, complex SQL, Databricks, and shell scripting, enabling efficient data integration and processing across multiple sources including job orchestration and workflow automation.
• Implemented performance optimization techniques (query tuning, parallelism, workload optimization), improving system efficiency and processing time.
• Applied strong analytical and problem-solving skills to assess technical solutions and support business requirements for compliance and transparency reporting.
• Designed scalable data foundations suitable for downstream analytics and AI workloads.
• Led data quality initiatives by assessing multiple source data, defining quality metrics, and establishing processes for monitoring and continuous improvement.

• Presentation introducing generic A.I. and Large Language Models
• Explanation of legal frameworks (EU AI Act, US CLOUD Act, DSGVO)
• Systematic review of AI tools along the SDLC and holistic systems
• Comparison of on-prem LLMs vs. cloud-based solutions, as well as change management and works council considerations
• Moderation of the discussion and definition of next steps for introducing AI development tools

• Datastage 11.7, dbt, Oracle 19, Python 3.12 / PySpark 3.5, Azure GitHub, Azure DevOps, Automic
• Development of migration jobs to transfer data from the collection DWH to the new Risk Mart, as well as development of ETL pipelines to migrate historical data from the old Mart to the new Risk Mart.
• Storage of the silver layer on Hadoop and the gold layer in Oracle.
• Translation of DataStage jobs into dbt to publish reporting data in Google Cloud to a PostgreSQL database.
• Creation and optimization of complex SQL queries for data extraction from a data vault, taking into account historical data in the point-in-time tables.
• Creation of Oracle table definitions (DDL) and adjustment of existing stored procedures.
• Versioning changes in GitHub and deployment via the CI/CD portal.
• Refactoring long-running DataStage jobs into Python using PySpark to reduce server load.
• Migration of SAS scripts to PL/SQL, including new development of distribution functions that have no direct equivalent in Oracle.
• Development of Automic jobs to run DataStage pipelines and Python scripts (PySpark jobs) that control the population of the SME and institutional risk tables in the Risk Mart and perform business calculations.
• Participation in the agile process, including creating user stories, estimations, and planning in Azure DevOps.
• Handling Azure DevOps tickets and close collaboration with testers and business teams for error analysis and resolution.

• Advising on the use of analytics and BI tools and services in the Microsoft Azure stack (e.g. MS Fabric, Synapse Workspaces and dedicated SQL pools, SQL Database, PostgreSQL, Snowflake, Databricks, Data Factory, SSIS, Analysis Services, Function Apps, Power BI, ML)
• Independently designing analytics solutions with Python, SQL, etc.
• Designing and implementing ETLs and data pipelines
• Creating and maintaining APIs
• Independently applying CI/CD, testing, and version control
• Data modeling
• Model development and optimization
• Anomaly detection with AI
• Predictive analytics

Used technologies:

• Snowflake
• Fabric
• Azure Synapse Analytics
• Azure DataFactory
• Azure Data Lake
• Azure DevOps
• Databricks
• Spark
• CI/CD
• SQL Database
• Python
• Power Platform

AI-powered platform for automated UX validation and designer support

• Designed and led technical implementation of an enterprise-wide AI solution for automated UX review that improved design quality and significantly reduced manual review processes in teams
• Developed an automated UX validation tool as a Figma plugin and web application that generates test cases based on internal guidelines and reliably checks current designs for consistency and standard compliance
• Implemented an interactive designer chat based on RAG that answers questions about the current design and the company's UX guidelines, and designed the deployment architecture using containerized services
• Python, Azure OpenAI, PostgreSQL, REST API, Docker, OpenShift, Helm, CI/CD, Figma MCP, LLM, RAG, Prompt Engineering, GenAI, XAI, AI Architecture, AI Strategy

• Designed and implemented the agent-based AI architecture for a company-wide platform to securely deploy LLM-based agents
• Designed and implemented end-to-end RAG pipelines from multiple sources: document preprocessing, chunking strategies for different document types, embeddings, retrieval with re-ranking, and robust prompt orchestration
• Developed a modular context engineering framework with skill architecture, context isolation, and dynamic resource management; human-in-the-loop control for enterprise tool integrations
• Built the CI/CD pipeline, testing strategy, tracing on the software side as well as automated LLM and agent evaluations, red team testing and tracing, and handed over to a reproducible production environment (ISO27001 and SOC2 compliant)

• Built Power BI dashboards and enabled data-driven strategies across digital platforms

• Implementation of specified DevOps solutions to automate infrastructure (Terraform, Bicep, CloudFormation, Ansible) on-premises datacenter (Ovirt, Proxmox, Ceph Cluster, MinIO) and private cloud.
• Administration, configuration and implementation of CI/CD DevOps pipelines (GitLab, GitFlow) to support development process (Artifactory, Prometheus, Istio, service mesh, Helm Chart, OpenShift (Red Hat Enterprise) / Kubernetes cluster), Red Hat Satellite.
• Administration, setup, monitoring and patching of Linux infrastructure based on Red Hat Enterprise for Dev, Test and QA.
• Use of Scrum and Kanban methods.
• Administration, configuration and implementation of security standards for deploying on Dev, Test, QA and Prod stages of the new ePA applications.
• Development of new plugins and add-ons needed on current infrastructure.
• Database support.
• Data analytics support (Python, Spark, Pandas, Power BI, Splunk Enterprise).
• Implementation of best practices for DevSecOps and BizDevOps using GitOps (ArgoCD), Streamlit framework, Semaphore Ansible UI.
• Configuration and testing of iperf, uperf, sysbench using benchmark-operator for external source data and IoT/MDM devices, creating reports via ELK / OpenSearch.
• Building a new Databricks platform to collect and analyze big data from different sources and IoT devices into Hadoop framework (Python, Pandas, PySpark, Power BI, Apache Airflow).
• Building backend data aggregation and processing to automate configuration deployment between different OpenShift clusters and big data framework (Python, Pandas, PySpark, Apache Spark, PostgreSQL, Django 2, Ansible Automation, Jira JSM).
• Building a new ML pipeline platform using Kubeflow, TensorFlow, KServe.
• Data extraction, transformation and loading from different data sources including structured and unstructured data to analytic DWH / big data cluster using Python, Pandas, Polars, Power BI, Django backend and PostgreSQL.
• Setup of new DevOps Test and QA HashiCorp Vault cluster for PKI and IAM.
• Configuration and testing of automated patching based on CVSS score, SIEM-integrated CVEs.
• Use of Nexpose and InsightVM to scan vulnerability events in network, host, container and application.
• Design and implementation of secure and scalable AWS architectures including VPC, EC2, S3, RDS and Route53 and similar setups on Azure and GCP.
• Automated system provisioning and deployment using CloudFormation templates.
• Configuration of IAM roles, policies and permissions to ensure secure access control.
• Patch management, backup automation and disaster recovery setup on AWS infrastructure.
• Monitoring and optimization of system performance using AWS CloudWatch and AWS Trusted Advisor.
• Support of VMware services (vSphere, Aria, Horizon) and the virtual desktop environment.
• Development and maintenance of CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD and AWS CodePipeline with interface to Nutanix.
• Configuration of AWS CloudWatch to monitor application performance and system events.
• Planning and execution of migration of on-premises applications to AWS cloud platforms.
• Deployment of containerized applications using Docker and Kubernetes in AWS environments.
• Deployment of internal software packages between availability zones using AWS CodeDeploy.
• Building and deploying ML models using Scikit-learn, XGBoost and Spark MLlib including hyperparameter tuning, model evaluation and production deployment.

• Development of a central billing app for cloud costs at DB
• AWS
• Python
• AWS CDK
• RDS
• Spark (PySpark)
• Glue
• Lambda
• CI/CD (GitLab)
• React/Typescript
• data optimization
• Scrum