Christof Bräutigam
Senior Data Engineer
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolChristof Bräutigam is a Senior Data Engineer based in Berlin with 11 years of experience building data platforms and information retrieval systems. He combines a strong academic foundation (MSc in Computer Science and Media) with hands-on experience in NLP, machine learning, and backend development across startups and product teams. His career includes co-developing the plagiarism detection project Picapica and long-term engineering of DMP technology and platform backends, showing a mix of research-led productization and operational reliability. At Virtual Minds he continues to focus on scalable data engineering while drawing on a background of Java, Python and scripting from his university research days. Colleagues know him for bridging research insights and production-ready systems, particularly in text analysis and IR, and for maintaining a pragmatic, full-stack approach to data problems. He also runs independent consulting work and retains an academic curiosity that surfaces in careful dataset creation and evaluation practices.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS) Computer Science and Media, Master of Science (MS) Computer Science and Media at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
Github Skills (6)
spotify-api5
album-art4
spotify4
rest-api1
api1
rest1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (4)
mathior/spotify-tracklister
Jan 2018 - Mar 2020
Show title/album/artist information for a list of spotify track URIs.
Contributions:2 commits, 6 PRs, 16 pushes in 2 years 2 months
artistspotifyurisspotify-apialbum-art
mathior/notes
Jun 2015 - Jun 2015
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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