About

I’m a software engineer living in Berlin.

After my B.Sc. and M.Sc. in computer science I began working for a software company called Amphinicy. There I had a great time writing programs that orchestrate communication between earth stations and satellites in earth’s orbit.

After a while of beaming radio waves into space with Java, I moved to Berlin and started a new job with Zalando, Europe’s biggest fashion retailer and platform. At Zalando I’m part of a team (originally tiny, now bigger) dedicated to applying machine learning to help customers discover the products and brands they like instead of having them browse through overwhelming catalogues.

At Zalando I reconnected with machine learning in an engineering-heavy role and have become absorbed by building resilient systems that serve tens of thousands of recommendations per second, all coming from data-driven models implemented based on our data scientists’ research.

Some of the things I like:

Java, Haskell, Bash, Scala, Cassandra, Solr, Postgres, AWS, STUPS, system architecture, performance testing.