Kilian Thiel
Principal, Professional Services at KNIME
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolKilian Thiel is a Principal in Professional Services at KNIME with 19 years of experience blending data science research and full-stack software engineering. He led development of KNIME’s text mining and other core analytics modules, contributed to the KNIME Analytics Platform codebase, and has a strong track record in clustering, predictive modeling, NER and network analysis from both industry and EU-funded research. Holding a PhD in Computer Science, he bridges academic rigor—work on spreading activation and bisociative networks—with practical customer-facing consulting and partner leadership roles. Based in Berlin, he has progressed from hands-on developer and researcher to head of partnerships and office lead, demonstrating rare fluency across product development, open-source contribution, and strategic partner management. Notably, his career reflects a sustained focus on turning complex textual and networked data into actionable insights at scale.
19 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
PhD (Dr. rer. nat.) Computer Science, PhD (Dr. rer. nat.) Computer Science at University of KonstanzResearch visit Data Mining Network analysis, Research visit Data Mining Network analysis at National Cheng Kung UniversityDipl. Inf. (FH) Business Informatics, Dipl. Inf. (FH) Business Informatics at HTWG Hochschule Konstanz – Technik, Wirtschaft und GestaltungStudent Computer Science / Informatics, Student Computer Science / Informatics at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
German, English
Github Skills (11)
javas10
uid10
front-end-development10
java10
ui-design9
workflow-engine9
work-flow9
user-interface8
open-source8
interface-design8
machine-learning7
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
knime/knime-core
Nov 2006 - May 2016
KNIME Analytics Platform
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:120 commits in 9 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Kilian contributed to the core functionality and user interface of the KNIME Analytics Platform. Their work included implementing features such as a hilite row filter node, the addition of dialog components, and modifications to existing components like the file selection panel and the SotaTreeCell class. Furthermore, the user addressed issues with the display of data, including the positioning of elements in plots and updated the welcome page.
tool-blendingintegrationanalyticsknime-analytics-platformmachine-learning
knime/knime-textprocessing
Feb 2008 - Sep 2016
Contributions:308 commits in 8 years 8 months
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