Ansgar Wenzel
Staff Engineer (Data Science)
Trier, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
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Top SchoolAnsgar Wenzel is a Staff Engineer (Data Science) with a PhD in Mathematics and 11 years of experience applying statistical rigor to financial services, from credit risk and IFRS9 impairment modelling to automated reconciliation and pricing systems. As the most senior data scientist at Blockchain.com he leads an eight-person DS/BI team and serves as the primary bridge between data science, engineering, product, finance and compliance while owning end-to-end pipelines in Python, SQL, BigQuery and Airflow. His work has driven measurable business impact—€6M p.a. PnL improvement from credit scorecards at Advanzia—and includes conference presentations on survival-analysis frameworks. Comfortable mentoring and hiring, he combines deep theoretical training (topology PhD) with a track record of shipping practical, auditable models across banks, asset managers and startups. Notably, he has introduced early ML-driven pricing and telematics approaches in insurance and scaled regulatory reporting workflows, reflecting a blend of research-level thinking and production-first delivery.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
BSc (Hons.), ARCS, Mathematics, BSc (Hons.), ARCS, Mathematics at Imperial College LondonPhD, Mathematics (Topology), PhD, Mathematics (Topology) at University of SussexMSc, Mathematics, MSc, Mathematics at Uppsala University
German, French, Swedish, English
Github Skills (4)
journal9
open-access8
academia7
creative-commons7
Github contributions (4)
ansgarwenzel/quhomology
Nov 2014 - May 2016
Contributions:2 releases, 13 commits, 8 pushes in 1 year 6 months
ansgarwenzel/fizzbuzz
Oct 2016 - Oct 2016
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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