Apache Spark Experts in Munich

• Building, implementing and selling automated Data Science solutions such as Scorecard Factory and Forecast Factory
• Implementation of automated end-to-end cloud processes
• Development of LLM and NLP models
• Creation of interactive reports
• Support for national and international large corporations as well as medium-sized companies in implementing ML projects

Large Insurance Company – Consultant Wiesbaden: Consulting support for the introduction of an integrated planning and performance management framework (operational, financial, customer) to enhance customer-centric transparency, decision-making quality, and steering capabilities across all lines of business within an insurance organization:

• Analysis of existing processes, reports, KPIs, and KPI calculation methodologies
• Design and introduction of new, standardized customer KPIs (gross/net), as well as key steering metrics with consistent linkage across all lines of business
• Recalculation, validation, and plausibility checks of KPIs based on existing and newly integrated data sources
• Conceptual support for the development of an integrated reporting and performance management setup
• Execution of customer insights analyses to identify patterns and anomalies within customer data clusters

Large retail company – Consultant in Karlsruhe: Advisory services for the setup and step-by-step implementation of an internationally deployable RELEX solution in the supply chain management environment:

• Advising overall and sub-project management on methodology, project setup and steering (e.g. agile approach, Jira configuration, RELEX phases, Jira Structure PPM)
• Strategic-operational consulting for the introduction of RELEX including best practices
• Support in defining overarching goals and requirements (2-year target picture)
• Guidance in scoping a relevant supply chain network segment for the project
• Development of a roadmap for iterative, incremental RELEX setup and rollout
• Assessment of project dependencies (interfaces, configurations, etc.)
• Advice on prioritized implementation of business requirements and data interfaces
• Support in test planning (data validation, system testing, UAT)
• Consulting on internationalization, change management, training, and knowledge transfer
• Stakeholder advisory and alignment activities between the client, implementation partner, and RELEX

Insurance company – Management Consultant in Munich: Analysis, consulting and support for the optimization of a large-scale business and IT transformation. Focus on strategically important programs and modernization projects in the area of Managed Services Operations and processes:

• Review of project plans and deliverables; analysis of programs and projects (e.g. cloud approach, process standardization, system integration, roadmaps)
• Identification of technical, functional and personnel risks and challenges; development of content-related measures and alternative solutions
• Proposal of quality improvements for program and modernization efforts
• Sparring partner and professional, technical, structural and organizational consulting for project and program management

Large retail group – Management Consultant & Stream Lead in Cologne: Consulting, process, project and product management for the introduction and implementation of a large strategic program in the field of advanced analytics, assortment and space management:

• Setup, test and rollout of a new space planning, automation and optimization product based on the existing cluster-based merchandising approach
• Definition and setup of new processes and transformation and change management measures for the new store-specific merchandising approach
• Collaboration with Advanced Analytics and IT (internal and external) for software implementations, automations, extensions and interfaces
• MVP approach and piloting in phases with gradual rollout (pilot with 80 stores, region with 500 stores, national level with 4000 stores)

Large retail company – Agile Coach & Change Agent in Cologne: Agile coach, OKR master and facilitator for the introduction of the OKR approach in a large strategic digitization program for retail stores:

• Coaching of the core team with topic managers and team leads
• Introduction to the OKR topic and setup of the OKR cycle
• Establishment of the OKR approach in teams and on a cross-team level

Delivery and logistics company – Management Consultant in United Kingdom: Consulting and coaching in the restructuring of the Data Analytics department:

• Analysis of current challenges
• Definition of overarching goals
• Development of a proposal for a new team structure
• Identification of required competencies, skills and responsibilities
• Advisory and alignment on communication and change management strategy

• Build and operate an end-to-end MLOps platform on Azure ML and Kubernetes (Kubeflow) for the automated deployment, monitoring, and scaling of forecasting models (including Temporal Fusion Transformer, Informer, Autoformer).
• Implement CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps for the full ML lifecycle – from resource provisioning (Terraform), data transformation (Hugging Face Datasets, Pandas, PyTorch, CUDA cluster) through training and evaluation to model registry and endpoint deployment.
• Integrate MLflow for experiment tracking, model versioning, performance monitoring, and automated registration in the Azure Model Registry.
• Develop and containerize PyTorch training jobs (Azure Notebook, Jupyter Notebooks) for price and time series forecasting (PFC models) with automatic rollout via Azure ML Endpoints and REST/gRPC interfaces, Docker containerization, secured with OAuth 2.0.
• Set up monitoring and alerting mechanisms (Prometheus, MLflow Metrics), log centralization, and cost monitoring.
• Automate infrastructure provisioning and model deployment using Terraform, Helm, and Azure CLI; connect to existing market data systems and event pipelines.
• Migrate existing workloads and databases (IONOS → Azure, MongoDB) with integration into central MLOps workflows and internal networks.
• Extend the platform with LLM-based tools (LangChain, LangServe) to integrate GPT-based analysis modules into existing Spring Boot services for market anomaly detection and automated reports.
• Analyze and architect a software solution to process large volumes of data efficiently (>3000 messages/sec.) (market data store).
• Spring Boot / Java 21 container development with RabbitMQ for distributing stock market data via MongoDB (Kubernetes) with fast storage of data in Redis RMaps, deduplication, forwarding messages to Read Model queues, and building Read Models for UI display in MongoDB.
• Integration of RESTHeart to create a REST API for MongoDB.
• Build an Angular frontend to simplify data queries and master data maintenance.
• Agentic coding with remote and local LLMs (Claude Sonnet, Ollama Qwen) and MCP servers.
• Develop Python scripts for transforming and cleaning incoming stock market data (Pandas, scikit-learn).

UX/UI design for the waipu.tv web app, building custom UI libraries in Figma, as well as concepting and designing marketing landing pages and product pages.

Product Design · UI Design · Design System

• Development of high-performance ad distribution via auction
• Holistic (multi-campaign & multi-channel) advertisement placement optimization
• Algorithmic optimization for NP-Hard/NP-e
• Multiple Knapsack Problem with constraints
• Online estimation of parameters in stochastic environments

Tools: Python, R, Kotlin, MILP/SAT/CP Solvers, Pytorch, Pandas, Docker

• It is like a startup within REWE, where we have to build a new forecasting system on Google Cloud Platform from the scratch. Although, officially my role is called MLOps, my actual tasks also include development of data processing pipelines (data engineering) and data scientists tasks such as feature engineering and model trainings.
• GCP: Terraform (tofu), Vertex AI (Kubeflow), Cloud Run, IAM, Google Cloud Storage, BigQuery, Artifact Registry
• Data engineering: Snowflake as the main data warehouse, Terraform, DBT for data model implementations
• CI/CD: GitLab. We have built a CI/CD pipeline that automates deployments of new releases up to production environment

• Internationally certified Master Coach, International Association of Coaching Institutes (ICI)

• Future Pioneer. Future architect & bridge builder for leaders & teams - business coach for future-ready, values-based transformation in organizations.

• I enable leaders, teams, and organizations to increase their future readiness in a self-determined way, master complex change, and connect value creation with purpose, responsibility, and humanity.

• One-to-one coaching for leaders

• Team and leadership team coaching

• Conflict coaching and conflict facilitation

• Process-supporting systemic coaching in transformation programs

• Business coaching for transformation and change projects (innovation, culture change, New Work, intrapreneurship, agile work, leadership development), with a focus on leadership, team dynamics, conflict culture, and organizational systems.

• Certified coach for non-violent communication (NVC)

• Certified hypnosystemic coach

• Certified conflict coach

• Certified team coach

• Certified career coach

• Certified leadership coach

• More than 6,000 hours of mentoring and coaching in the last 12 years

• Design, development, and maintenance of end-to-end ETL pipelines for scalable and reliable data integration
• Support in data quality checks, testing, and migrations
• Development and maintenance of dbt models for structured, modular, and reusable data transformations
• Use of AI-driven development to improve ETL job creation and code quality.
• Development of CI/CD for automated deployment.

• Designed and implemented end-to-end data pipelines (batch & streaming) using Python, SQL, and Apache Spark, Databricks on AWS reducing ETL latency by 40%.
• Developed serverless event-driven ingestion pipelines using AWS Lambda and SQS, ensuring real-time data availability for downstream analytics.
• Leveraged Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services including BigQuery and Dataflow to manage cross-cloud data warehousing and analytics integration.
• Expertise in DMS (CDC, Full Load) and Airflow for scalable data pipeline automation and orchestration.
• Managed and customized data pipelines using Databricks, Airflow. Automation using Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform.
• Automated data quality checks using dbt to modularize transformations and ensure production-grade data lineage, improving reliability by 30%.
• Collaborated with compliance teams to ensure GDPR and SOC2 alignment. Mentored junior engineers and contributed to architecture refactoring for scalability.
• Created and maintained dashboards in Power BI to provide actionable insights.

• Responsible for Openshift/Kubernetes on-prem administration and developer support.
• Developed URP infrastructure automation with Python, Ansible, Kustomize and ArgoCD, Argo Workflow/Events stack.
• Wrote smoke and load tests for URP infrastructure utilizing Python, Kustomize and ApplicationSets.
• Helped to set up and deploy URP infrastructure in Google Cloud, GKE.
• Set up monitoring for URP and ArgoCD stack with Splunk Cloud.
• Performed system administration tasks across RedHat Linux, Kubernetes/Openshift, ArgoCD, GitLab, Bitbucket Enterprise, Kafka and MongoDB.

• Concept creation and implementing AI Agents in AWS Cloud
• Continuously alignment with stakeholders
• Collaborate with DevOps
• Technologies: Git, CI/CD (GitHub Actions), Python/ML, Streamlit, Deno/typescript, AWS SAM, AWS Bedrock, AWS Lambda, AWS Dynamo DB, AWS S3, AWS Event Bridge etc.

• Participated in the gradual modernization of components into cloud-native 12-factor applications.
• Worked closely with the business operations team to eliminate manual processes and resolve several performance bottlenecks.
• Designed and implemented a CI/CD pipeline to increase developer productivity, enforce quality and security checks, and automate product delivery.
• Migrated several components into the OpenShift Kubernetes cluster.
• Built a monitoring stack from scratch with Prometheus and Grafana to monitor services running in OpenShift.
• Developed dashboards in both Grafana and Splunk for operational transparency.
• Implemented an OIDC/OAuth2-based single sign-on (SSO) solution with Keycloak to secure multiple applications.
• Technologies: Java, Spring, Quarkus, Kafka, MySQL, Cassandra, Redis, Spring Data, Hibernate, Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, Keycloak, OIDC, OAuth2, Helm, Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, Spark.

• Co-founded an AI venture focused on building production-grade LLM applications and agentic systems
• Designed and implemented multi-agent AI workflows for financial and trading applications
• Developed LLM-powered copilot architectures for portfolio analysis, trade management, and personalized user coaching
• Built on-device and edge-deployed inference applications, optimizing models for low latency, privacy, and resource-constrained environments
• Led system architecture decisions across model selection, orchestration, state management, and deployment

• Business intelligence and KPI specification and playbook for 35 European companies.