Jan Scherbaum
Principal Engineer at Absa Group
Prague, Prague, Czechia
Summary
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Top SchoolJan Scherbaum is a Principal Engineer and architect with over a decade of hands-on experience designing and operating large-scale data platforms, currently driving data fabric and migration initiatives at Absa from Prague. He combines executive-level influence with deep technical craft—owning Spark and AWS-based back-ends, leading emergency remediations (Log4j at scale), and automating complex EMR/Hadoop-to-cloud transitions. Jan has built and mentored engineering teams, contributed to open-source data tooling (Enceladus/Spline), and shaped organisation-wide data engineering standards and training. His work blends rigorous academic foundations (Trinity College, PhD-level research background) with practical, production-first solutions for financial services, and he has a particular knack for rapidly prototyping and proving novel cloud architectures.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
PhD in Computer Science, Computer Science, PhD in Computer Science, Computer Science at Trinity College, Dublin
English, Czech, Slovak
Github Skills (67)
hadoop10
r10
sql10
spark10
java10
scala10
mongodb10
spring10
big-data9
python9
jdbc9
splines9
ebcdic8
apache-spark8
xml8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
AbsaOSS/CertMe
Sep 2020 - Mar 2021
A NodeJS tool to generate and sign TLS certificates blazing fast with HashiCorp Vault and import them into AWS ACM
Contributions:30 commits, 8 PRs, 7 pushes in 5 months
aws-acmhashicorp-vaultnodejs
lokm01/spark
May 2018 - May 2018
Contributions:10 PRs, 5 pushes in 6 days
apachebig-datasparkscalaapache-spark
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