Christopher Schymura
Head Of Data Science
Bochum, North Rhine-Westphalia, Ireland
Summary
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Top SchoolChristopher Schymura is a Head of Data Science with a decade of experience turning research-grade machine learning into reliable, production-ready systems for large organizations. He has led data science functions across retail and life sciences—building demand forecasting, customer analytics, and MLOps practices for a 2,000+ store omnichannel retailer and delivering toolkits and verification platforms at Bayer that accelerated R&D decisions. His background includes a PhD and postdoctoral work on multimodal perception and signal processing, with 11 first-author papers, which informs a pragmatic approach to complex ML problems. Christopher is equally comfortable mentoring teams and improving development processes as he is building algorithms and production pipelines, and he has a track record of securing funding and driving cross-functional initiatives. Based in Bochum with international research collaborations, he combines deep academic grounding with a clear focus on adoption and business impact.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Dr.-Ing., Electrical Engineering and Information Technology, Dr.-Ing., Electrical Engineering and Information Technology at Ruhr University Bochum
German, English
Github Skills (6)
distributions9
matlab8
probabilistic8
modeling7
blackboard6
python2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
chrschy/mvmdist
Oct 2015 - Dec 2016
A Matlab package for probabilistic modeling of circular data with mixtures of von Mises distributions.
Contributions:1 release, 7 commits, 10 pushes in 1 year 1 month
distributionsmatlabvonprobabilistic-modelingcircular
chrschy/chrschy
May 2021 - Feb 2025
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 9 months
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