Johannes Goller
Director Of Engineering at Zalando
Stahnsdorf, Brandenburg, Germany
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Top SchoolJohannes Goller is a Director of Engineering with nearly 25 years in software and 14 years of hands-on leadership, currently scaling Zalando’s engineering organization after senior machine learning leadership at Amazon. He has built and led cross-disciplinary teams of up to 80 people across Japan, China, Germany, Ireland and the US, delivering large-scale e-commerce systems spanning product data, search and ranking, A/B experimentation and product presentation. With a PhD in computational linguistics focused on suffix-array search structures, his expertise bridges NLP, string algorithms and practical ML-in-production for multilingual and CJK contexts. He combines research-grade technical depth with product and UX collaboration, and a track record of shipping robust search and extraction systems in both industry and academic settings. An unusual mix of long-term Japan experience and deep algorithmic roots gives him a unique perspective on internationalized search and data-driven productization.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Computational Linguistics, PhD Computational Linguistics at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
ドイツ語, Chinese, Japanese
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Github contributions (5)
jogojapan/sufex
May 2012 - Mar 2013
Contributions:93 commits in 10 months
jogojapan/jogotools
May 2015 - Jan 2017
Contributions:10 pushes in 1 year 7 months
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