Christoph Sawade
Chief Technical Officer And Managing Director at Fit Analytics
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolChristoph Sawade is a data and ML-savvy technology leader with 12 years of experience building production-grade recommendation, ranking, and classification systems and now serves as CTO and Managing Director in Berlin. He has led data organizations at scale—from shipping learning-to-rank pipelines and robust audio fingerprinting at SoundCloud to driving a data-mesh and self-serve platform strategy at HelloFresh. Comfortable bridging research and engineering, he holds a PhD in machine learning and has a track record of turning prototypes into large-scale, impact-focused systems. Known for rigor in experimentation and evaluation, he also advises startups on data strategy and has repeatedly stabilized A/B frameworks and cross-functional processes. Less obvious: his background includes developing high-throughput online targeting libraries early in his career, reflecting deep experience with low-latency, privacy-aware personalization.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Abitur, Abitur at Alexander-von-Humboldt OberschuleMaster's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Humboldt-Universität zu BerlinPhD Machine Learning Computer Science, PhD Machine Learning Computer Science at University of Potsdam
English, German
Github Skills (51)
data-analysis10
monitoring10
python10
data-science10
scikit10
statistics10
machine-learning10
time-series10
hypothesis-testing10
prometheus-exporter10
system-monitoring10
music-information-retrieval10
prometheus10
hypothesis-tests10
sound-processing10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
BigCrunsh/ipython-notebooks
Dec 2014 - Dec 2022
Contributions:18 commits, 15 pushes, 3 branches in 8 years 1 month
BigCrunsh/dotfiles
Aug 2015 - Dec 2021
Contributions:54 pushes, 3 branches in 6 years 5 months
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