Jan Degener
Corporate Senior Data Scientist
Dusseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Top SchoolJan Degener is a Corporate Senior Data Scientist based in Düsseldorf with 10 years of experience applying advanced geospatial and data science methods across industry and academia. With a Dr.rer.nat. in Geography (summa cum laude) and a postdoc background in climate change, remote sensing and geoinformatics, he bridges rigorous research with product-focused analytics at L'Oréal, having led data science efforts in its luxury division. His career includes senior roles at Telefónica Germany where he translated telecom datasets into actionable insights, and earlier academic positions training students and supervising research. Jan publishes technical writing and code (Medium, GitHub) and is notable for combining deep domain expertise in earth sciences with practical ML and analytics to solve business problems.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Dr.rer.nat, Geographie, Summa cum laude, Dr.rer.nat, Geographie, Summa cum laude at Georg-August-Universität GöttingenDiplom, Geographie, 1,7, Diplom, Geographie, 1,7 at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
German, English, French, Spanish
Github Skills (24)
arima9
python8
pandas8
ets8
prophet8
data-science7
manipulation7
statistics7
exponential-smoothing7
frame7
data-analysis7
data-structures7
forecast6
statsmodels5
audio5
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
jdegene/GDAL_Python3
Mar 2016 - Aug 2016
Contributions:36 commits, 34 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
jdegene/steamHWsurvey
Oct 2021 - Feb 2023
Data & Script to collect current months steam hardware survey data or past data from
Contributions:30 commits, 1 PR, 74 pushes in 1 year 4 months
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