Christian Eik
Head Of Data Engineering
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolChristian Eik is a data and engineering leader with 11 years of experience building and scaling analytics and data platforms across e-commerce and startup environments, now leading engineering at Freshflow in Berlin. He has repeatedly moved from hands-on data engineering to head-of-data roles—most recently transitioning internally from Head of Data Engineering to Head of Engineering—demonstrating both technical depth and people-first leadership. His background spans BI, budgeting and analytics at ZALORA to founding data teams at Joonko and Hashtag You, giving him a strong product-minded view of data’s role in business decisions. Trained in cloud DevOps and full-stack development via Udacity, he combines infrastructure savvy with practical BI experience to ship reliable, production-ready pipelines. Christian’s career shows a pattern of stepping into growth-stage challenges and quickly turning analytics into operational leverage, and he’s actively recruiting data talent for high-impact roles.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Economics, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Economics at Goethe University FrankfurtCloud DevOps Engineer, Cloud DevOps Engineer at UdacityAbitur High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates, Abitur High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates at Allgemeines Gymnasium Lohne
German, English
Github Skills (14)
cpp10
science10
mortar10
computer-science10
dbt-packages9
dbt7
data-analytics6
data-visualization6
terraform4
api3
snowflake3
terraform-provider2
business-intelligence2
airbyte1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ceik/coursera
Jan 2016 - Oct 2018
Contributions:2 PRs, 13 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 9 months
ceik/udacity
Oct 2015 - Jul 2022
Contributions:45 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 10 months
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