Professional Experience


Since 02/2017

Deputy Team Leader (Big Data Streaming Team)

Robert Bosch GmbH, Stuttgart-Feuerbach, Germany
Department: Center of Competence Big Data

Key Contributions:

  1. Design and implement worldwide services providing highly performant, scalable, and fault-tolerant Big Data streaming, stream processing, and analytics platforms.
  2. Design and implement a company-wide integration layer for any type of data source and destination including Big Data batch and streaming platforms.
  3. Design and implement Big Data streaming and stream processing architectures, security concepts, and applications (for worldwide IoT and i4.0 projects).

08/2016 – 01/2017 (6 months)

Big Data Architect

Robert Bosch GmbH, Stuttgart-Feuerbach, Germany
Department: Center of Competence Big Data

Key Contributions:

  1. Design worldwide services providing highly performant, scalable, and fault-tolerant Big Data streaming platforms.
  2. Design worldwide services integrating various data sources and destinations (like SQL DBs, NoSQL DBs, SAP systems, IoT devices and sensors) with Big Data architectures in batch and streaming mode.
  3. Design Big Data streaming architectures (for worldwide IoT and i4.0 projects).

09/2015 – 07/2016 (11 months)

External PhD Student in Computer Science

Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany
Research Group: Web Science and Knowledge Management

References:

  1. Prof. Dr. York Sure-Vetter, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
  2. Prof. Dr. Kai Eckert, Stuttgart Media University

04/2010 – 03/2016 (6 years)

Research Associate

GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Mannheim, Germany

Scientific Work:

  1. actively participate at 4 international working groups
  2. attended and presented at 19 international conferences
  3. attended and presented at 18 international workshops and 5 Dagstuhl workshops
  4. PhD thesis is based on 30 scientific articles (i.a., 6 journal articles)

IT Projects (technical responsibility and joint responsibility for the project management):

  1. MISSY 3: 7 team members, 3 years
  2. MISSY 2 Migration: 6 team members, 1 year
  3. MISSY 2: 5 team members, 5 years
  4. Technical data preparation of the microcensus: 5 team members, 6 years

Key Achievements in IT projects:

  • conceptualized and implemented multitier software architectures for 3 web applications using the MVC software architecture pattern, data models, persistence strategies, and import/export functions
  • formulated guidelines and best practices for using metadata standards accross projects within the research institute and beyond
  • conceptualized the functionality to search metadata and data within the whole research institute accross multiple information systems

Reference:

Prof. Dr. Christof Wolf, president of GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences

08/2008 – 10/2008 (3 months)

Application Developer

Soft-Hardware-Projekt, Bopfingen, Germany.

IT Projects:

  1. conceptualized and implemented an employee qualification matrix
  2. developed an application to plan business seminars
  3. conceptualized and implemented an application to plan holidays

03/2008 – 04/2008 (2 months)

Application Developer

Carl Zeiss AG, Oberkochen, Germany

IT Projects:

  1. defined KPIs for a financial control system and inserted them into a balanced scorecard
  2. conceptualized and implemented department-specific data editors
  3. conceptualized and implemented applications transforming department-specific data in a universal format to be imported into a financial control system

03/2007 – 09/2007 (7 months)

IT Consultant

cellent AG, Stuttgart, Germany

IT Projects:

  1. contributed to the conception of a service-oriented architecture within the Stuttgart city administration
  2. developed of a methodology to evaluate BPEL engines
  3. evaluated free available and commercial BPEL engines
  4. recommended a BPEL engine for the usage within the context of a software development project in collaboration with the Stuttgart city administration

05/2006 – 07/2006 (3 months)

Application Developer

Carl Zeiss AG, Oberkochen, Germany

IT Projects:

  1. developed an application to enter metadata on images of optical devices, automatically convert and compress the actual images data, and store the images and their metadata in automatically generated documents
  2. documented and optimized business processes with process responsibles of multiple departments

03/2006 – 04/2006 (2 months)

Application Developer

Carl Zeiss AG, Oberkochen, Germany

IT Projects:

  1. developed an application to log measured values of a measuring instrument in a user-controlled way and to automatically generate diagrams of various diagram types based on determined measured values
  2. developed an application to create different views on centrally stored seminar data of employees

08/2005 – 09/2005 (2 months)

Application Developer

Carl Zeiss AG, Oberkochen, Germany

IT Projects:

developed a dialog-based application on top of a relational database management system to (1) evaluate data retrieved from the SAP R/3 enterprise resource planning information system and (2) transform the data in a user-defined way

02/2005 – 04/2005 (3 months)

Application Developer

Carl Zeiss AG, Oberkochen, Germany

IT Projects:

developed a program to get a task-related and user-defined representation of project working times based on the processing of data contained in multiple decentralized files

09/2001 – 07/2004 (2 years 11 months)

Apprenticeship as IT Application Specialist

Intec Consulting AG, Hüttlingen, Germany
Technische Schule Aalen, Germany

IT Projects:

  1. developed XML Schemas for exchanging seminar data in form of XML
  2. conceptualized and implemented multilingualism for a help desk system
  3. programmed diverse Microsoft Office applications
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