Lucie Jilkova
Principal Data Analyst
Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
Summary
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Top SchoolLucie Jilkova is a Principal Data Analyst in New Zealand with 10 years of experience translating complex scientific problems into actionable data products. With a PhD in astrophysics and a background running large-scale gravitational simulations and contributing to the AMUSE open-source framework, she brings rigorous research discipline to public-sector transport analytics and marketing data science. She has built robust ETL pipelines, automated advertising workflows, anomaly detection dashboards, and automated reporting—skills honed across roles at Carvana and the Ministry of Transport. Lucie combines deep statistical and coding expertise (Python, SQL, data visualization) with experience mentoring students and collaborating on multi-institution projects, making her adept at both technical delivery and cross-team communication. An interesting facet of her profile is the transition from programming Fortran for orbital integrations to deploying modern production data solutions, reflecting a rare blend of legacy scientific computing and contemporary data engineering.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Astronomy and Astrophysics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Astronomy and Astrophysics at Masaryk University Brno, Faculty of Social Studies
Czech, English, Spanish
Github Skills (12)
simulations10
gravity10
astronomy9
python9
astrophysics9
planetary-science8
astrodynamics8
geocoding8
orbital-mechanics8
openstreetmap7
nominatim6
openstreetmap-data6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
jilkoval/amuse
Mar 2016 - Feb 2017
Astrophysical Multipurpose Software Environment. This is the main repository for AMUSE
Contributions:31 pushes, 5 branches in 11 months
astrologyamusemultipurposebusterspice
jilkoval/titanic_prediction
Feb 2018 - Feb 2018
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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