Jupyter Experts in Germany

• Building a data integration platform for high, medium, and low voltage assets for contextual analysis of time series with master data from the SCADA control system (IEC 60870 104), INIS, and SAP.
• Responsibility for the architecture and implementation of the solution, as well as sparring partner for the Product Owner.
• Use of Kotlin, Spring Boot, Maven, TimescaleDB, PostgreSQL, liquibase, Elements IoT, Docker, Kubernetes, Grafana, Python, jupyter, and various API gateways.

I am an experienced data engineer specializing in end‑to‑end data integration, cloud DWH architectures, and high‑quality, governed data products.

I delivered following projects and engagements as a freelancer.

• Data Migration of CRM System for AL-FA Objekt Service Gmbh
• Microsoft Software Resales Partnership

I am looking for freelance roles like: Freelance Data Engineer Cloud Data Warehouse Architect Data Modeling & Architecture Consultant MDM & Data Governance Specialist BI & Analytics Developer

Technical Focus Areas

• Data Engineering & Integration: SQL Server/SSIS, Informatica PowerCenter/IDQ, Talend, Kafka, Azure Data Factory – Delta/CDC/ELT patterns, robust pipelines, monitoring/recovery, data lineage & impact analysis, medallion architecture Bronze/Silver/Gold layers
• DWH & Cloud: Azure SQL / Data Lake / Synapse, AWS Redshift/S3, on‑prem SQL/Oracle – scalable data marts with a strong cost/benefit focus.
• Data Modeling: Atomic (Inmon) and Dimensional (Kimball), Data Vault (Linstedt), Domain‑Driven Design, clear lineage & contracts.
• MDM & Governance: Informatica MDM, IBM MDM, stewardship processes, data quality rules, survivorship/XREF, catalog/glossary, SIF/BES/REST publication.
• Analytics/BI: Power BI, SSAS, Cognos – business‑ready, maintainable data products.

• Deployment and scaling of existing ML initiatives, including demand and cash flow forecasts.
• Building robust monitoring with mlflow for data stability, model performance, and drift detection, as well as implementing additional ML use cases.
• Further development of an Agentic AI chatbot for transparent and easy-to-understand model explanations.

• 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

Creation of workflows for generating the data basis for the article import of a web shop: combining data from several sources, analyzing the requirements, designing the process with Jupyter Notebooks and Knime. Also creating code for automation in Python using Polars and Pandas.

Processing the source data, filtering and merging the source files and creating the needed intermediate products, creating the upload files, plausibility checks, quality checks.

Technologies used: PyCharm, Python, Jupyter Notebooks, SQL, Knime. Pandas, Polars

• Built and fine-tuned CNN and RNN architectures using transfer learning for real-world classification tasks — core deep learning skills applicable to BMW's multimodal LLM and GenAI vehicle function development.
• Implemented Dropout, Batch Normalisation, and Early Stopping across deep learning experiments; evaluated rigorously using precision, recall, F1-score, and confusion matrices for production-grade reliability.
• Developed an AI-powered attendance management system using LBPH facial recognition, deployed via Flask web interface with real-time SMS notifications — demonstrating end-to-end AI product delivery for real users.
• Collaborated across cross-functional teams to deliver scalable, documented ML pipelines designed for reproducibility — matching BMW's interdisciplinary team and research environment.
• Integrated AI tooling directly into the development workflow from design through to testing, maintaining high velocity without compromising correctness.

• Automotive SPICE®: all assessments fully achieved
• Agile transformation: V-model → SAFe successfully implemented
• Series release: on-time, quality-assured software delivery for key Volkswagen Group models (including ECE homologation)
• Stakeholder management: internal & external
• Process optimization: implemented a continuous improvement process (CIP) with a tracking system

• 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).

• Delivered a new notifications platform implementation built from scratch to replace existing and upcoming services
• Collaborating with other teams to integrate more domains

Tech stack:

• Data: Scala 3, Apache Kafka, Python, Airflow, Astronomer
• BE-FE: TypeScript, NestJS, Java, Spring Boot, Vue
• Dev-ops: AWS, PostgreSQL, Docker, GitHub Actions, Kubernetes, Helm, ArgoCD

• Analysis of complex business processes and end-to-end user journeys in digital product and platform environments
• Gathering, structuring, and prioritizing business and technical requirements (Functional / Non-Functional Requirements)
• Translating business goals into actionable requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria
• Conducting stakeholder interviews, workshops, and reviews with business teams, IT, UX, and management
• Creating and maintaining requirement artifacts (BRD, FRD, user stories, process models, decision papers)
• Ensuring consistency between business needs, technical implementation, and product vision
• Close collaboration with development teams to clarify business questions during implementation
• Support with impact analyses (A/B tests), change requests, and scope management
• Quality assurance of implemented requirements including acceptance criteria and business testing
• Advising on the further development of product strategy and roadmap structure
• Prioritizing backlog items based on business value
• Defining and sharpening product goals, KPIs, MVP definition, and other success metrics
• Evaluating new features, tools, and initiatives from a user and business perspective
• Facilitating decision-making between business, product, and technology
• Supporting go-to-market considerations and product positioning
• Sparring partner for product and stakeholder decisions at management level
• Dashboard creation, data modeling, BI report administration, and data analysis in Power BI

• 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

DWH for customer and financial data

• Extension of the DWH with new data sources
• Report development
• Data quality management

Methodology: Scrum

Tools: Atlassian Confluence & Jira

Databases: Microsoft SQL Server

Programming languages: SQL, T-SQL

ETL: Microsoft SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS)

Frontend platform: PowerBI, Microsoft Reporting Services

• 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.

• Planning, defining, and executing test cases for product creation, measurement data upload, and chart verification
• Developing keyword driven function tests using Robot Framework
• Defining and generating realistic test data with Python
• Implementing data-driven and REST API interface tests
• Performing image comparison tests based on OpenCV
• Developing load tests for various environments
• Conducting regression and end-to-end tests, reporting results, and managing defects
• Systematic expansion of test coverage
• Integrating Jenkins with Xray for test management
• Managing tickets with JIRA and documenting in Confluence
• Used Robot Framework, Playwright, Python, VS Code, Prectavi, JIRA, Confluence & Xray, Bitbucket, GitHub, Jenkins, MS Office 365, and Teams in an agile project.