Clemens S
Principal Data Engineer
Singapore
Summary
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Top SchoolClemens S is a Principal Data Engineer based in Singapore with 11 years of experience building and operating large-scale big data platforms. He has led teams at trivago and Grab, architecting Hadoop/Spark/Kafka ecosystems and creating tools and CI/CD practices that make data pipelines and ML workloads reliable and production-ready. His work spans ETL, job optimization, custom Spark libraries, and platform-level improvements (Dr. Elephant, Gobblin, sparklint) that empower analysts, data scientists and product teams. Known for tackling unsolved operational challenges, he blends deep mathematical training with pragmatic engineering to squeeze performance and observability from distributed systems. Outside core platform work he’s shipped optimized algorithm binaries and productionized SEM bidding models, showing a rare mix of systems, ML, and product-facing impact.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma Mathematics, Diploma Mathematics at FAU Erlangen-NürnbergAbitur Mathematics / English, Abitur Mathematics / English at Emil-von-Behring Gymnasium Spardorf
English, German, French
Github Skills (25)
java8
sql7
tensorflow-serving7
database7
hive6
apache-hive6
apache6
hadoop5
java-streams5
kafka5
big-data5
spark5
stream4
machine-learning4
kafka-streams4
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
cvaliente/Splittermond
Jul 2014 - Jan 2015
Contributions:15 commits, 17 pushes in 6 months
gamesplittermond
zaboron/tensorflow-serving-java-grpc-kafka-streams
Nov 2019 - Nov 2019
Kafka Streams + Java + gRPC + TensorFlow Serving => Stream Processing combined with RPC / Request-Response
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
rpcgrpcjava-streamsstreamsstream
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