Ich begleite Projekte von der Idee bis zum fertigen Produkt und mache komplexe Inhalte in unterschiedlichen Kontexten verständlich – digital, literarisch und vor Ort.
Übersicht
5
5
years of professional experience
6
6
years of post-secondary education
Berufserfahrung
Data Platform Engineer (Team Lead)
Universitätsbibliothek
Bamberg
12.2025 - heute
Team Lead beim Aufbau einer durchgängigen ETL-Pipeline von der ersten lauffähigen Version bis zum produktiven Betrieb.
Konzeption und Umsetzung des technischen Setups (Python, PostgreSQL, Docker/Podman, FOLIO Bibliotheksmanagmentsystem)
Einführung von BI-Reporting (Metabase, Apache Superset) und Erstellung entscheidungsrelevanter Berichte für die Geschäftsführung.
Stadtführer
Freiberuflich
Bamberg
05.2025 - heute
Konzeption und Durchführung thematischer Stadtführungen mit Schwerpunkt Bierkultur, Brauwesen und Bierhistorie der Stadt Bamberg.
Vertiefung meiner Leidenschaft, Wissen unterhaltsam und zugänglich zu teilen.
Entwicklung eines Systems zur automatisierten Warenverteilung an Filialen, basierend auf Abverkaufszahlen und Lagerbeständen.
Visualisierung der Order-Prozesse entlang der Warenkette - mit Fokus auf zeitliche Abläufe und Zuständigkeiten.
Analyse von Unternehmensdaten zur Unterstützung strategischer Entscheidungen.
Ausbildung
M. Sc. - Experimental & Clinical Neurosciences (englischsprachig)
Universität Regensburg
Regensburg
10.2016 - 12.2019
B. Sc. - Biologie
Julius-Maximilans Universität
Würzburg
10.2013 - 10.2016
Allgemeine Hochschulreife -
Clavius Gymnasium
Bamberg
Kompetenzen
Proaktives Handeln und Engagement
Teamplayer
Kreativität
Anpassungsfähigkeit
Begeisterungsfähigkeit
SPRACHEN
Deutsch
Muttersprache
Englisch
Fließend (C2)
C2
Referenzen
"Vertrauenswürdigkeit und absolute Zuverlässigkeit zeichneten durchweg den Arbeitsstil von Herrn Schmidtner uneingeschränkt aus." - Dr. Rick Dannert (Director IT Business Processes bei NewYorker)
"Engagiert, zuverlässig, verantwortungsbewusst.", Dr. Michael Goldbach, Leiter Orchesterfreizeit; Universitätsmusikdirektor (i.R) der Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg
"Leistungsfähig, belastbar, sehr gut organisiert." - Sabine Pflumm, Bereichsleitung FSJ - Internationaler Bund
Zeitleiste
Data Platform Engineer (Team Lead)
Universitätsbibliothek
12.2025 - heute
Stadtführer
Freiberuflich
05.2025 - heute
Schriftsteller
Freiberuflich
05.2025 - heute
Senior Data Scientist
NewYorker
06.2020 - 05.2025
M. Sc. - Experimental & Clinical Neurosciences (englischsprachig)
<ul><li>Roles and Responsibilities</li><li>Hiring and team building</li><li>Managing team’s career progression and performance reviews</li><li>Managing Performance improvement plan and firing</li><li>Mentoring</li><li>Product roadmap planning and execution</li><li>Accountability of the entire delivery execution including the risk mitigation planning.</li><li>Stakeholder management</li><li>Adhering to Apple Privacy and Security Guidelines for platform</li><li>Design and implementation of new architectures and solutions to manage all online services for AdXchange in Apple Ads.</li><li>Design and implementation of new architectures and solutions deliver Budget experimentation in Apple Ads</li><li>Design and implementation of new architectures and solutions to manage data for Ad Platform.</li><li>Creating and maintaining all the data and analytics and revenue pipelines for Ad Platforms</li><li>Driving the solution for data ingestions and data processing across Ad platform</li><li>Defining the Strategy for data governance and data access</li><li>Collaboration with business to deliver relevant data and insight for our strategy and decisions.</li><li>Managing storage, processing, copy/synchronization etc. appropriate to scale</li><li>Enabling machine learning and algorithm groups by proving them right frameworks and data</li><li>Advancing team’s design methodology and quality programming practices and evangelize those techniques across Ad platform.</li><li>Deliveries</li><li>Setup 8+ member team to design and deliver Budget Allocation and Budget experimentation.</li><li>Leading Ad Delivery services team, responsible for delivering various capabilities like query understanding, targeting, fraud etc.</li><li>Delivered and Lead Design for observability for budget, and data platform in Ad platform.</li><li>Setup 11+ members high performing team to handle various business needs such as analytics and micro services for Display Advertising as well as Data Platform</li><li>Instrumental in driving Data Platform throughout the SDLC from inception, design, development, testing and deployment.</li><li>Instilled a strong team culture of high-quality delivery by constructive feedback, cross collaboration, focus and motivation.</li><li>Delivered Realtime and Batch Platform with various integrations</li><li>Delivered new DIP design for Data Platform</li><li>Delivered design of all the components of Data processing platform</li><li>Transitioned Display data work to India seamlessly and delivered many critical business impacting features and organizational security initiatives.</li><li>Closely worked with various stakeholders to understand the requirements which resulted into efficient remote work culture.</li><li>Seamless Display execution and set up best practices for 24X7 production on-call.</li><li>Tools and Technologies</li><li>AWS, S3, Kafka, Spark, Hadoop, EMR, Hive, Scoop, Flume, Cassandra, Airflow, Oozie, Gobblin, Schema Store, Icloud, Grafana, Kubernetes, Vertica, Alation, snowflake, druid, Iceberg, Java, Scala, IntelliJ, Oracle, MySql, Git, RIO, Spinnaker, Elastic cache, Grpc, Agile.</li></ul> von Apple - Adplatform<ul><li>Roles and Responsibilities</li><li>Hiring and team building</li><li>Managing team’s career progression and performance reviews</li><li>Managing Performance improvement plan and firing</li><li>Mentoring</li><li>Product roadmap planning and execution</li><li>Accountability of the entire delivery execution including the risk mitigation planning.</li><li>Stakeholder management</li><li>Adhering to Apple Privacy and Security Guidelines for platform</li><li>Design and implementation of new architectures and solutions to manage all online services for AdXchange in Apple Ads.</li><li>Design and implementation of new architectures and solutions deliver Budget experimentation in Apple Ads</li><li>Design and implementation of new architectures and solutions to manage data for Ad Platform.</li><li>Creating and maintaining all the data and analytics and revenue pipelines for Ad Platforms</li><li>Driving the solution for data ingestions and data processing across Ad platform</li><li>Defining the Strategy for data governance and data access</li><li>Collaboration with business to deliver relevant data and insight for our strategy and decisions.</li><li>Managing storage, processing, copy/synchronization etc. appropriate to scale</li><li>Enabling machine learning and algorithm groups by proving them right frameworks and data</li><li>Advancing team’s design methodology and quality programming practices and evangelize those techniques across Ad platform.</li><li>Deliveries</li><li>Setup 8+ member team to design and deliver Budget Allocation and Budget experimentation.</li><li>Leading Ad Delivery services team, responsible for delivering various capabilities like query understanding, targeting, fraud etc.</li><li>Delivered and Lead Design for observability for budget, and data platform in Ad platform.</li><li>Setup 11+ members high performing team to handle various business needs such as analytics and micro services for Display Advertising as well as Data Platform</li><li>Instrumental in driving Data Platform throughout the SDLC from inception, design, development, testing and deployment.</li><li>Instilled a strong team culture of high-quality delivery by constructive feedback, cross collaboration, focus and motivation.</li><li>Delivered Realtime and Batch Platform with various integrations</li><li>Delivered new DIP design for Data Platform</li><li>Delivered design of all the components of Data processing platform</li><li>Transitioned Display data work to India seamlessly and delivered many critical business impacting features and organizational security initiatives.</li><li>Closely worked with various stakeholders to understand the requirements which resulted into efficient remote work culture.</li><li>Seamless Display execution and set up best practices for 24X7 production on-call.</li><li>Tools and Technologies</li><li>AWS, S3, Kafka, Spark, Hadoop, EMR, Hive, Scoop, Flume, Cassandra, Airflow, Oozie, Gobblin, Schema Store, Icloud, Grafana, Kubernetes, Vertica, Alation, snowflake, druid, Iceberg, Java, Scala, IntelliJ, Oracle, MySql, Git, RIO, Spinnaker, Elastic cache, Grpc, Agile.</li></ul> von Apple - Adplatform