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About me#

Hi there, I'm David. I'm flattered by your interest in getting to know me better.

Info

This entire website is currently a work-in-progress after migrating to another blog engine. I will gradually migrate the posts I deem worthy of keeping and fill this website with content again. I know this isn't the way to do it, but this is just my small personal website and I wanted to get the new website design online as fast as possible rather than holding out until I've ported all existing articles.

My job#

I work as what they call an Analytics Engineer, a subtype of a Data Engineer.

I sit between the purely technical Data Engineers who don't need to have any domain knowledge about the data they process, and the less technically-savvy analysts who understand the data from the business perspective but need help on the technical side.

I take over after my fellow Data Engineers (with a different specialization) have copied the raw, messy data from wherever it originates into the company's cloud data warehouse, and shape that unprepared data into a reliable, trustworthy dataset that can then be analyzed by data scientists and analysts. My job is

  • to enable data scientists and analysts by designing and implementing a maintainable data architecture for them that gives them the data they need,
  • to protect them from awkward moments of presenting flawed reports to business executives that are flawed for the sole reason of being based on unreliable data, and
  • to help increase those executives' trust in their company's data.

I hold a B.S. degree in computer science from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany, where I focussed on deep learning, computer vision, and 3D graphics.

My technical expertise includes writing computer code in Python, modeling and transforming data with SQL, developing CI/CD pipelines as well as data pipelines, provisioning cloud infrastructure, and more.

My hobbies#

Most of my hobbies revolve around some form of working on myself.

  • Reading
  • Podcasts
  • Making music
  • Foreign languages
  • Physical exercise