Oracle Database Experts in Berlin

• Optimized the data architecture (Medallion) to better decouple processing steps and improve transparency and reproducibility

• Ensured the technical quality of data processing in Databricks by introducing schema enforcement, data quality checks, and a structured data architecture

• Pipeline orchestration with Azure Data Factory

• Improved and automated the development and deployment process by integrating Git and GitHub Actions

• Technical leadership of the Data Engineering team (3 employees)

• Led workshops to optimize and stabilize the data platform and development process

• Collected and prioritized new requests and maintained the product backlog

• Technologies: Microsoft Azure (Data Lake, Data Factory), Databricks, Apache Spark (PySpark), Python, SQL, Git, Confluence, Power BI, Power Apps, Dataverse, MS Sharepoint, Mural

• 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.

• Implementation of a full-stack application with Angular as frontend framework and Java as backend language
• Use of the Swagger OpenAPI specification for REST communication between frontend and backend applications
• Control of a card printer via the Nexus Card SDK framework
• Design and implementation of card management software with web interface and JavaFX module for printer monitoring
• Use of Cucumber tests for test automation and creation of test artifacts for testing outside the development environment
• Use of Wireshark for network investigations to analyze the API of a third-party product and to check the REST API of the self-developed software

• 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.

• Led development of 15+ microservices (Java 17, Spring Boot) driving customer interactions; migrated from on-prem to GCP Kubernetes, improving scalability and reducing infra cost by 20%.
• Optimized user services with CouchDB caching and API refactoring, cutting response times by 35% and enhancing customer experience.
• Implemented canary deployments, FluxCD GitOps, and CI/CD optimizations in GitLab, reducing release lead time by 25% and enabling zero-downtime rollouts.
• Set up Grafana health checks and Anodot alerts for latency, error, and throughput monitoring, reducing MTTR by 40%.
• Built secure APIs using OAuth2, DPoP, and Gatekeeper, integrated REST and GraphQL, and achieved 90%+ test coverage with unit and E2E tests.
• Mentored junior developers, promoted Agile best practices, and collaborated cross-functionally to deliver high-impact, reliable customer-facing features.

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.

• Adding/creating test specifications
• Performing regression tests
• Performing release tests
• Analyzing Jira tickets
• Identifying software defects and fixing them with C#

• ▶ 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.

• Creation, maintenance and hardening of Kubernetes clusters employing Ansible and ArgoCD
• Keywords: Ansible, AWX, Kubernetes, NetApp, Prometheus, CI/CD ArgoCD, SSO, Fluent-bit, HAProxy, Calico, Keycloak, oauth2-proxy, SealedSecrets, kubeseal, Aqua kube-bench, CIS-Benchmarks, Aqua Trivy operator

• 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.

• Developed and deployed microservices in Kotlin and Spring Boot, integrated AWS Secrets Manager to secure credentials and decreased network calls using Spring cache.
• Refactored Kafka consumer using Spring Kafka with semaphore-based backpressure to cap records and keep heap memory stable under spikes; switched to batch upserts to cut down on database invocations; added Testcontainers integration tests for Kafka and database to pave the way for future changes.
• Automated the financial reconciliation workflow in Spring Boot (Kotlin) using Spring Scheduler, transactional boundaries, JPA/Hibernate on MySQL, and Flyway migrations, saving the accounts team 16+ hours per week.
• Designed and dockerized payments end-to-end test framework in Robot (Python) with reusable keyword libraries and profiles; integrated with GitLab CI (JaCoCo XML and HTML reports) to accelerate releases and lift code coverage to 80%.
• Implemented end-to-end observability on Datadog by instrumenting services with Datadog APM, correlating metrics and logs, provisioning dashboards, and creating monitors with burn-rate alerts and anomalies to harden reliability and give stakeholders clear visibility.

• 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.

• Developed an accessible, responsive website based on Figma designs for a major sports event in compliance with WCAG, BITV and EN 301 549
• Planned and set up the tool stack with Vite, Playwright, Docker and GitLab CI
• Worked on two existing projects (Vue.js & Nuxt), focusing on bug fixing, accessibility audits and developing new features
• Collaborated with Design and QA to consistently implement accessible UI patterns
• Advised on improving existing frontend architectures in terms of accessibility, performance and maintainability