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Kafka events processed in pilot production lines
Data Engineer | Streaming and Production AI
4+ years delivering measurable impact across enterprise systems: Kafka pipelines at 800,000 events/day, analytics acceleration from 5 hours to 55 minutes, and production AI latency improvements from 45s to 18s.
Kafka events processed in pilot production lines
Analytics report runtime reduced on BigQuery/Dataflow
Data lake ingestion acceleration with Airflow pipelines
P95 chat latency reduction in production RAG workloads
I help organizations move from slow, fragile data workflows to production-grade platforms with strong observability, predictable latency, and clear operational runbooks.
10/2025 – Present · Nurnberg
12/2021 – 09/2025 · Nurnberg, Germany
Selected clients: Continental AG, Valeo, Fraunhofer, Maisel, HKN
Kafka + AWS Fargate pipelines for industrial sensor streams across pilot production lines, with anomaly alerts in about three minutes.
Impact: about 14% less unplanned downtime.
Nine Airflow DAGs, Python ETL, and observability stack on Kubernetes/Hetzner for reliable ingestion and quality checks.
Impact: 3.5h pipeline reduced to 28m.
Routed inference between on-prem and cloud models using proxy architecture to satisfy EU data-residency and cost constraints.
Impact: about 35% monthly inference savings.
Reworked Valeo schemas and Dataflow ingestion for plant analytics at about 22GB/day with predictable runtime.
Impact: report runtime cut from 5h to 55m.
Containerized an exchange stack for HKN with SOAP/XML integration and GitHub Actions CI/CD for 280 mailboxes.
Impact: nightly archive of about 40GB/month.
Kafka + Protobuf aggregation with MLflow/Kubeflow tracking for a Fraunhofer SUMO traffic-control benchmark (not live city traffic).
Impact: 68 experiments; about 11% lower mean wait time.
Build and stabilize Kafka-based pipelines with strong delivery guarantees, partition strategy, and observability for production throughput.
Best for: real-time telemetry, anomaly detection, event platforms.
Reduce slow batch workflows by redesigning ingestion topology, schema layout, and orchestration for predictable SLA performance.
Best for: BI/reporting bottlenecks and late data incidents.
Improve RAG and LLM systems with practical latency tuning, queue/caching safeguards, and deployment runbooks for safer releases.
Best for: internal AI assistants and enterprise AI platforms.
Practical repository that explains event-driven architecture patterns in modern application systems.
View on GitHubHands-on deployment/testing repository focused on running Apache Airflow workloads in Kubernetes environments.
View on GitHubBeginner-friendly data engineering project showcasing practical Python-based workflow design and data pipeline thinking.
View on GitHubI publish practical engineering deep dives on streaming, production AI, reliability, and system design. Explore the full animated publications page.
Four rooms. The lexicon is the vocabulary. The interview lab is the conversation. The quiz checks whether the concept stuck. Talks are the decks — summary first, then a big slide carousel.
Module 01
Terms explained simply: data engineering, data structures, streaming, agentic systems, cloud, and platform. Built so juniors see why the idea exists, not only the definition.
Open the lexiconModule 02
Data Engineer, Data Scientist, ML Engineer, Cloud, Analytics Engineer, Backend. A full simulation with spoken answers, a three-rung explanation, and the traps that fail people.
Enter the labModule 03
Domain quizzes on the important terms. Miss an answer and you still get the correct choice plus a clear explanation.
Start a quizModule 04
Presentation decks as large Instagram-style carousels. Short topic summary, then one slide at a time with next and back.
Browse talksVerified credentials — and the field notes behind them. Pick a cert to open how I prepared, what skills stuck, and how it shows up in real work.
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Available for data engineering and production AI work focused on performance, resilience, and operational clarity.
Based in Nürnberg, Germany · CET · Open to conversations