Andreas Kersting
Referent at BaFin
Aschaffenburg, Bavaria, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolAndreas Kersting is a delivery-focused full stack data scientist with nine years of experience building data integration pipelines and analytics at GfK and now serving as Referent at BaFin. He has progressed from junior data scientist roles to principal and interim head of data science, combining hands-on R development with strategic leadership and talent development. His academic background in survey statistics and economics informs rigorous, reproducible approaches to weighting, imputation, and complex data collection problems. Known for translating statistical methods into production-ready solutions, he excels at bridging methodological depth with business impact. Outside work he is a father of two and a committed badminton enthusiast, a personal detail that reflects his team-oriented, competitive, and balanced approach to work and life.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Survey Statistics, Master of Science - MS Survey Statistics at Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bambergyear abroad Economics, year abroad Economics at Karlstad University
German, English
Github Skills (66)
r-package10
development-environment10
cran10
r9
parallelization9
shiny9
rstudio9
ide9
frame9
reactive8
amazon-athena8
aws-glue8
lambda7
editor7
ray7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
gfkse/bettermc
Dec 2020 - Aug 2022
Enhanced Fork-Based Parallelization for R
Contributions:4 releases, 139 commits, 2 PRs in 1 year 8 months
parallelizationr
akersting/lazyTyper
Jun 2016 - Jun 2017
Contributions:33 pushes, 2 branches in 11 months
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