Jörg Schad
Head Of Engineering at Nextdata
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolJörg Schad is a seasoned engineering leader with 11 years of experience building distributed systems, databases, and ML infrastructure, currently serving as Head of Engineering at Nextdata in San Francisco. He previously led engineering and product strategy at ArangoDB as CTO after running their engineering and machine learning efforts, blending deep technical expertise with executive leadership. His background includes low-level C++ work on Apache Mesos, database development at SAP, and hands-on ML infrastructure consulting, showing comfort across systems, data, and production ML. Jörg holds a PhD in Computer Science from Universität des Saarlandes, bringing rigorous research foundations to pragmatic, scalable engineering decisions. He has a track record of bridging open-source ecosystems, community engagement, and enterprise productization, often translating complex distributed research into reliable products. Colleagues value him for turning foundational systems work into clear business impact while maintaining technical craftsmanship.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Universität des Saarlandesiu
English, German, Finnish
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Github Skills (200)
k8s10
operator10
big-data10
arangodb10
maestro10
directed-acyclic-graph10
embeddable10
package-manager10
data-models10
universe10
dcos10
foxx10
python10
bigtable10
multi-model-database10
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
joerg84/Graph_Powered_ML_Workshop
Apr 2020 - Dec 2022
Material and Notebooks for the Graph Powered ML Workshop.
Contributions:3 reviews, 69 commits, 4 PRs in 2 years 8 months
directed-acyclic-graphthe-graphpythondata-scienceworkshop
joerg84/universe
Feb 2016 - Jun 2018
The Mesosphere Universe package repository.
Contributions:1 PR, 9 pushes, 9 branches in 2 years 3 months
mesosphereuniversepackage-repository
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