Blagoj Petrushev is a Staff Data Scientist based in Berlin with 14 years of experience applying optimization, Bayesian modeling and causal inference to logistics, pricing and auction problems. He combines a strong software-engineering background—building distributed services, data pipelines and backend systems—with hands-on data science leadership at trivago and NEW YORKER to deliver measurable supply-chain and auction improvements. He favors asking the right questions and matching methodology to business economics, often translating research designs into production-ready solutions at scale. An active Python contributor, he has improved text-processing in popular tooling like the amueller/word_cloud project, reflecting attention to accuracy and performance in data pipelines.
14 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma Physics, Diploma Physics at Faculty of Natural Science and Mathematics
Internship Informatics, Internship Informatics at Technical University of Munich
Contributions summary:Blagoj made several contributions focused on improving the text processing functionality of the word cloud generator. They implemented features to ignore digits and handle Unicode characters correctly. Additionally, they optimized the code by merging plural word counts into singular ones and made minor improvements to readability and performance. The changes show a focus on enhancing the accuracy and efficiency of the word processing pipeline.
Contributions:39 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 6 months
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