Ellis Whitehead
CTO at DATAbrill UK Ltd
Lörrach, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
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Top SchoolEllis Whitehead is a CTO and data scientist with 15+ years of hands-on experience building resilient, cost-effective data systems and algorithms that scale across commerce, medtech, and scientific research. He has driven seven startup exits, architected e-commerce forecasting used by 10,000+ firms, and shipped a dozen regulatory-ready medical products while pioneering robotic lab automation that sped experiments 100x. Combining a Doctorate from ETH Zürich in biosystems engineering with deep software and systems engineering roots, he bridges computational biology, control systems, and production-grade ML/AI. Known for turning complex, regulated requirements into market-ready products, he excels at extracting actionable insights from messy data and scaling technical operations without compromising reliability. Based in Lörrach, Germany, Ellis mixes strategic leadership with continued hands-on engineering across automation, simulation, and real-time systems.
15 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Philosophy Studies, Philosophy Studies at The University of FreiburgMaster, Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Master, Computational Biology and Bioinformatics at Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule ZürichDoctor of Science, Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering, Doctor of Science, Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering at ETH ZürichBachelor, Computer Science and Linguistics, Bachelor, Computer Science and Linguistics at Michigan State University
English, German
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (200)
web-application10
bug-tracker10
options-api10
api10
mathematics10
nodejs10
utilities10
interactive-brokers10
rest-api10
lib10
numeric10
complex-numbers10
invoice-ninja10
javascript10
expression-evaluator10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
ellis/roboliq
May 2011 - Jun 2018
Contributions:3147 commits, 20 pushes, 5 branches in 7 years 2 months
ellis/AirWM
Sep 2015 - Jun 2018
Contributions:150 pushes, 12 branches in 2 years 9 months
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