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 (28)
hardware9
steam9
prophet8
arima8
data-science7
ets7
exponential-smoothing7
pandas7
python7
forecast7
data-structures6
data-analysis6
ai6
flux6
statistics6
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, 115 pushes in 1 year 4 months
hardwaresteam
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