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About Me

Engineering Lead with a background in quant finance, statistics and economics. Managing frontend and backend teams in a high-paced environment and developing software in Python.

Professional Experience #

Engineering Lead (05/2024 – present) #

Data Q Company — Munich, Germany / Remote

  • Established and led software development teams (recruiting, onboarding, mentoring, task planning and allocation, reviews, etc.)
  • Coordinated external teams and staff (cloud migration, ML pipeline and model development)
  • Designed a comprehensive data quality platform (data model, software architecture, code structure, dev tools, testing framework, ci, deployment, best practices and processes)
  • Supported in-house SaaS solution migration from Azure to AWS and headed GitHub to GitLab migration
  • Implemented features in Python and smaller parts in React
  • Prioritized and structured tasks, coordinated with product management, and provided technical guidance to developers

Quantitative Developer & Data Engineer (05/2022 – 04/2024) #

2Xideas — Zurich, Switzerland / Remote

  • Designed and developed a comprehensive backtest engine (multiple investment strategies, trading simulation, relevant performance metrics)
  • Developed a centralized data repository with automatic daily updates and data quality checks
  • Enhanced existing risk modelling and asset management products
  • Conducted technical interviews, wrote job postings, and supported candidate selection
  • Added and improved data source integrations via REST/FTP (S&P Capital IQ, MSCI, TradingEconomics)
  • Refactored legacy code, increased test coverage, and updated dependencies (pandas, sqlalchemy, etc.)

Data Scientist (06/2020 – 04/2022) #

anacision — Karlsruhe, Germany / Remote

  • Built a web app (Flask, Dash) and algorithm to optimize research and personnel planning for a pharmaceutical company
  • Generated differentially private synthetic data using proprietary GANs (German federal government-sponsored)
  • Implemented a custom XGBoost model using PySpark and Azure Databricks for predictive vehicle maintenance deployed in hundreds of workshops around the world
  • Maintained and expanded a REST API for Smart Meter data management (Databricks, Azure, Flask)
  • Worked on a Prediction-as-a-Service cloud solution (Azure Web App, Postgres, Redis, GitLab)
  • Maintained internal project/time tracking platform (Django)
  • Created project scaffolding tools and a corporate design package for consistent styling and deployment across multiple projects
  • Administered GitLab and established best practices for data science workflows and software development

Business Consultant — Financial Artificial Intelligence (10/2018 – 03/2020) #

msg for banking — Munich, Germany

  • Forecasted trading volume and prices of financial derivatives using financial, news, and social media data
  • Back-tested and benchmarked financial models (multivariate time series analysis)
  • Performed customer retention/churn analyses; customer segmentation; data quality analytics
  • Project manager for a software development project with 14 team members
  • Dealt with market risks, especially IRRBB, to meet regulatory requirements: stress tests for negative rates, model validation, model risk governance, liquidity risk assessment, and contributions to a risk appetite framework (SREP)

Further Experience #

Research and Teaching Assistant (12/2016 – 09/2018) #

Chair of Banking and Financial Control, Otto-Friedrich-University Bamberg — Bamberg, Germany

  • Research in time series analysis and stochastic volatility models (GARCH, option pricing) on financial anomalies and exogenous shocks
  • Organized and led lectures and exams; supervised 5 bachelor’s and 7 master’s theses

Conference Manager (10/2017 – 05/2018) #

Swiss Society for Financial Market Research (SGF) — Bamberg, Germany / Zurich, Switzerland

  • Organized and conducted the SGF Conference 2018 in Zurich with 150+ guests and 300+ research contributions
  • Administered 91 presentations across 7 conference rooms at SIX Swiss Exchange ConventionPoint

Education #

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