Katrin Tirok
Head Of Data
Leipzig, Saxony, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolKatrin Tirok is Head of Data with 11 years of professional experience blending rigorous scientific training and practical data engineering to deliver analytics products and data literacy across organisations. With a PhD in Theoretical Ecology, she applies mathematical modelling and domain expertise from aquatic sciences to complex data integration, visualization and automated BI solutions using R, Python and PowerBI. She has built production data products (R plumber, Shiny) and pipelines connecting MySQL, AWS S3 and BigQuery, and routinely trains and mentors colleagues and students in data skills. Comfortable moving between research, consulting and corporate settings, Katrin pairs hands-on technical delivery with a knack for making quantitative insights accessible to non-technical stakeholders. An educator at heart, she often translates ecological modelling rigor into practical analytics patterns that improve decision-making.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Theoretical Ecology, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Theoretical Ecology at University of Potsdam
German, English
Github Skills (35)
ecology10
alpha10
stable10
visualization9
python9
data-visualisation9
data-wrangling9
data-visualization8
pandas8
accelerated-mobile-pages8
spanish8
r8
data-science7
jekyll7
responsive-design7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
katrintirok/carpentries.org
Jul 2018 - Apr 2019
Website
Contributions:8 PRs, 11 pushes, 4 branches in 9 months
katrintirok/python-ecology-lesson
Dec 2017 - Jul 2018
:page_with_curl: Data Carpentry Python lessons on ecology.
Contributions:10 PRs, 19 pushes, 7 branches in 7 months
pythonbootstrappingdata-sciencedata-carpentrycurl
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