Jörg Schad
Head Of Engineering at Nextdata
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolJörg Schad is a San Francisco–based engineering leader with a PhD in computer science and about a decade of experience building distributed systems, databases, and ML infrastructure. He has served as CTO of ArangoDB and is currently Head of Engineering at Nextdata, blending product strategy with hands-on technical leadership. His background spans database development at SAP, cloud-native and Mesos ecosystem work at Mesosphere, and machine learning infrastructure consulting, giving him rare fluency across storage, orchestration, and model deployment. He’s comfortable moving between community-driven open-source projects and commercial product teams, scaling platforms and developer ecosystems alike. Pragmatic and research-informed, he focuses on making complex distributed and ML systems reliably operable in production.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Universität des Saarlandes
English, German, Finnish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (200)
k8s10
operator10
big-data10
arangodb10
maestro10
directed-acyclic-graph10
embeddable10
package-manager10
data-models10
universe10
the-graph10
dcos10
foxx10
python10
bigtable10
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
joerg84/Graph_Powered_ML_Workshop
Apr 2020 - Dec 2022
Material and Notebooks for the Graph Powered ML Workshop.
Contributions:3 reviews, 69 commits, 4 PRs in 2 years 8 months
directed-acyclic-graphthe-graphpythondata-scienceworkshop
joerg84/universe
Feb 2016 - Jun 2018
The Mesosphere Universe package repository.
Contributions:1 PR, 9 pushes, 9 branches in 2 years 3 months
mesosphereuniversepackage-repository
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