Data Pipeline Experts in Berlin

• Architected an enterprise Fabric-based data-product governance framework, authoring data contracts and schema-validation KPIs to enforce completeness, freshness and SLA standards across reporting data products.
• Operationalized pipeline observability by integrating Dagster orchestration data into automated data-health reporting, proactively validating data integrity and pipeline reliability before production reporting layers refresh.
• Established BI-as-Code and end-to-end governance through Git-based version control, CI/CD and Alpha→GA release management, strengthening lineage, schema-drift detection and production change traceability.

• Architected and deployed private cloud data platform on VMware vSphere, integrating Greenplum MPP, Apache Kafka, Kubernetes, and Apache Solr, and developed real-time ingestion pipelines with Kafka Connect and Schema Registry.
• Led Oracle Exadata to Greenplum migration, rearchitected data models, optimized storage, implemented RabbitMQ with Debezium for CDC, and deployed VectorDB for Generative AI.
• Designed and executed multi-cloud migration PoC across AWS, Azure, and GCP, defined KPIs for throughput, latency, and cost efficiency, executed bulk data transfers, validated analytics and streaming workloads, and delivered full-scale architecture recommendations.
• Assessed legacy on-premises infrastructure and designed modern cloud-native data platforms using Greenplum and containerized microservices, advising on scalability, disaster recovery, and high-availability.

• LLM-based features for automated CO₂e data extraction from unstructured documents (70% reduction)

• Agentic AI pipeline for automated Scope 3 emissions calculations with 150.000+ validated data records

• Intelligent API workflows for real-time carbon footprint calculations in ERP and ESG systems

• ML algorithms for predicting emissions hotspots and optimizing product design

• Automated data validation pipelines with NLP for quality assurance of CO₂e datasets

• Led a 15-person cross-functional team in developing 10+ AI features

• Strategic product planning and AI roadmap with 35% shorter time-to-market

• Stakeholder management with DAX companies (40% higher satisfaction, 95% retention)

• On-time project delivery with 95% budget adherence through data-driven backlog management

• Agile methods (Scrum, Kanban) with continuous AI/ML integration (25% increase in team velocity)

• Product-market fit for AI features through A/B testing and analytics (60% higher adoption rate)

• Marketing Strategy: Lead the end-to-end analysis and evaluation of cross-channel marketing campaigns across the entire Customer Journey. My focus is identifying optimization potential and deriving clear, actionable recommendations that drive measurable business impact.
• Data Science & AI: Advanced predictive modeling (Churn, LTV), market basket analysis, clustering, and real-time AI-powered audience discovery utilizing RAG/LLMs.
• Marketing Analytics & Measurement: End-to-end attribution analysis, Marketing Mix Modeling (MMM), audience segmentation, conversion path analysis, and A/B testing across all major platforms.
• Data Engineering & Reporting: Designing and managing robust, multi-platform data pipelines (BigQuery, GCP) for data consolidation, automated dashboard generation, and critical API integrations.

Led FP&A tech transformation for a 9-figure business – from resolving legacy technical debt to leading AI-native EPM implementation

• Driving end-to-end FP&A transformation, from architecture redesign through EPM tool selection to rollout
• Ran evaluation of 12+ EPM platforms, from vendor negotiation to selection framework tied to long-term planning
• Diagnosed constraints in financial planning architecture, presented findings to the CFO, and secured executive mandate to redesign FP&A infrastructure from the ground up

Specialize in turning complex data from diverse environments into actionable business value through compelling visual storytelling. I am an expert in generating actionable insights and presenting recommendations to business stakeholders. My technical proficiency in SQL, Python, and leading data visualization tools like Tableau and Power BI allows me to deliver a new generation of self-service tools and analytics services.

• Data Visualization & Storytelling: Created impactful data visualizations and dashboards in Tableau and Power BI, effectively communicating findings and presenting actionable recommendations to C-suite stakeholders and business leaders.
• Stakeholder Management: Built effective working relationships with key business stakeholders, data engineers, and other partners to achieve common data-driven goals and targets.
• Insights & Recommendations: Generated actionable insights from complex data analysis for funnel conversion, marketing performance, and ROI, directly influencing business performance and strategy.
• Data Collaboration & Empowerment: Worked closely with cross-functional teams to support the ongoing data needs of internal partners, helping to optimize internal data processes and workflows.
• BI & Data Expertise: Applied extensive experience in data modeling, data collection, data mining, and analysis to deliver end-to-end analytical solutions from stakeholder discovery to production.

• Own the 12–18 month roadmap and key outcomes for Elli's enterprise customer platform, covering onboarding, pricing, billing, analytics and broader platform modernization; redesigned the Fleet onboarding funnel to double conversion, supporting a projected €20.7M revenue uplift by 2028.
• Lead the broader Energy Intelligence product and directly own its AI/ML, asset and portfolio-optimization capabilities, including MLOps and safe strategy deployment, strategy lifecycle management and backtesting; delegated data and V2G integration roadmap ownership to a new PO as the platform scope expanded.
• Built a Human-in-the-loop GenAI/RAG support workflow, increasing L1 resolution by 24%, routing accuracy to 91%, and reducing L2 workload by 30%.
• Introduced standardized data contracts and a self-service Python toolkit for traders and Data Scientists, increasing platform adoption by 15% and reducing support effort by 50%.
• Built and scaled a real-time orchestration product from 32 to 3,000+ endpoints across four markets, growing recurring revenue from €1.4k to €56.3k MRR.
• Developed product and AI capability across the organization, training 20 PMs on RAG, agents and prototyping; mentoring a junior PM and coaching an Enterprise Platform Tech Lead toward Product Management ownership.

• Root cause analysis of complex business, technical, and data-related errors in PowerCloud across process, booking, and system boundaries.
• Data-driven management of payments and receivables; contributed to reducing historical receivables from over 100 Mio. EUR to under 25 Mio. EUR.
• Identification of automation and straight-through processing potential at the interface between business departments, IT, and external service providers.

• ▶ Built real-time voice assistant (STT → LLM → TTS pipeline) benchmarking and evaluating multiple STT providers including faster-whisper and Azure Speech. achieved sub-3s latency, Groq API (Llama 3) with multi-turn memory - directly handling edge cases in dictation, names and passcode recognition.

• Designed and implemented scalable ETL/ELT pipelines using Python, SQL, dbt, AWS and Informatica to ingest data from sources such as APIs, relational databases, and flat files into Snowflake, reducing pipeline runtime by ~30%.
• Migrated high-volume datasets from on-premises Teradata to Snowflake using AWS services (S3, Glue, Step Functions, IAM), ensuring data consistency and integrity.
• Applied Kimball methodology to design star and snowflake schemas, improving query performance and reducing Snowflake compute costs.
• Implemented automated data quality checks using SQL-based dbt tests and the Great Expectations framework to detect anomalies and enforce data correctness before production loads.
• Orchestrated ETL workflows in Airflow using Python and managed code deployments via Git with CI/CD best practices to increase deployment reliability and maintain pipeline uptime.
• Built interactive Power BI dashboards and curated datasets to enable data-driven decision-making for stakeholders.
• Maintained technical documentation in Confluence for ETL workflows, and led knowledge-sharing sessions for new joiners.

• Azure Landing Zone architecture: Design and implement a hub-spoke, multi-region-capable Azure landing zone that provides the secure, scalable and highly available foundation for autonomous driving and parking data/ML platforms.
• Compliance through Azure Policy: Enforce security and compliance standards across Azure subscriptions via Azure Policy (guardrails, deny/audit/deploy-if-not-exists), consistently achieving top-tier infrastructure security scores.
• Infrastructure-as-Code: Automate provisioning and configuration of Azure resources with Terraform and Bicep, with changes delivered through reviewed CI/CD pipelines.
• Azure Databricks and Unity Catalog: Extensive experience operating Azure Databricks with Unity Catalog for centralized data governance, access control, lineage and auditing across workspaces.
• Monitoring and observability: Built and run infrastructure monitoring and logging with Azure Monitor, Prometheus, Grafana and Loki, covering platform health, alerting, troubleshooting and capacity trends.
• Platform at scale: Architected and operate cloud data/ML platforms supporting multi-PB vehicle data ingestion and simulation; orchestrate Argo Workflow-based recompute and autolabeling services scaling to 100k+ concurrent pods on AKS.
• Reproducible ML: Established reproducible training environments with dataset versioning and provenance tracking, enabling auditing and experiment reliability.
• Operational excellence: Automated GitHub organization management and CI/CD pipelines, improving developer productivity and deployment reliability; automated recurring operational processes.
• FinOps: Developed transparent resource utilization and cost-tracking for multi-project Azure environments.
• Leadership: Technical lead for infrastructure topics, collaborating with development, DevOps and security teams; technical interviewer and recruitment panel member for scaling the engineering team.

• Designed and developed AI-powered document processing solutions using Python, OCR, NLP, and Large Language Models (LLMs) to automate extraction, validation, and classification of financial documents, reducing processing time by 75%.
• Built intelligent multi-stage workflow automation pipelines integrating AI services, machine learning models, and enterprise systems to streamline financial operations and improve data quality.
• Developed reusable AI-driven transformation frameworks capable of processing structured and unstructured document formats (XML, CSV, JSON, TXT, DAT) and normalizing them into unified business schemas.
• Designed and developed Python-based REST APIs and backend services supporting enterprise finance applications and high-volume data processing workloads.
• Built scalable data synchronization pipelines between Oracle CFIN and SQL databases, incorporating machine learning models for cash-flow forecasting and AP/AR anomaly detection.
• Architected and deployed Apache Airflow workflows to orchestrate AI-powered data pipelines, automating end-to-end processing from document ingestion through financial system integration.
• Led the migration of critical enterprise integrations from MuleSoft to Python-based services, improving maintainability, performance, and operational flexibility while preserving complete data integrity.
• Managed the full API lifecycle including solution design, implementation, documentation, deployment, monitoring, and production support for mission-critical financial systems.
• Collaborated directly with finance stakeholders to identify business challenges, define solution requirements, and deliver measurable operational improvements through automation and AI-driven workflows.
• Worked closely with cross-functional engineering and business teams to rapidly iterate on features, improve processes, and drive successful adoption of AI-enabled solutions.
• Provided technical leadership through architecture reviews, technology decisions, code reviews, and engineering best practices across integration and automation initiatives.
• Mentored developers, established coding standards, and contributed to improving software quality, maintainability, and delivery effectiveness across projects.
• Provided production support during critical month-end and quarter-close financial processes, performing root-cause analysis and implementing rapid fixes to ensure system reliability and data accuracy.

Engaged as an independent BI consultant for a FinTech SaaS platform, building and maintaining the end-to-end Microsoft Azure and Fabric analytics stack behind a multi-tenant accounting product used by business owners to track their own financial performance.

• Partnered with finance stakeholders to translate complex accounting workflows into real-time BI dashboards (P&L, Cash Flow, Balance Sheet), helping 2000+ business owners track cash flow and overall financial health effortlessly.
• Developed 10+ interactive dashboards, giving each business owner personalized, real-time visibility into their own sales performance, accounts receivable aging, and operational costs.
• Enforced strict enterprise data governance by implementing dynamic Row-Level Security (RLS) via DAX to isolate each business owner's data within the shared multi-tenant model.
• Maintained and extended an Azure ELT pipeline (Azure Data Factory, Azure SQL Database, Azure Synapse) that automated data ingestion and transformation.
• Contributed to a team-wide platform migration from Azure to Microsoft Fabric to optimize capacity licensing costs.
• Designed and implemented a Microsoft Fabric ELT pipeline (Lakehouse, Pipelines, PySpark) that automated data ingestion and transformation, replacing the prior Azure pipeline.
• Modeled cleansed data into a Star Schema within the data warehouse using T-SQL, powering the Power BI Semantic Model.
• Leveraged AI tools, including Copilot and Claude, as development partners across the entire ELT pipeline, from data ingestion to KPI reporting and visualization.
• Supported agile delivery processes, using Jira to track development tasks and Confluence to maintain technical and project documentation.

• Taught Python, Pandas, data analysis, visualization and Power BI to 250+ students.
• Guided practical projects from data preparation and exploratory analysis through visualization and dashboard creation.
• Explained complex analytical concepts clearly to audiences with different levels of technical experience.