Michael Knaus is a BI Consultant based in Vienna with 19 years of experience turning complex data into actionable insights for enterprise clients. He builds analytical solutions on MS Azure/Fabric and Infor Birst, and has hands-on consulting experience across financial reporting, customer master data management, and GenAI prototyping from roles at Accenture and BDO. Academically grounded with an MSc in Business Analytics and a mathematics background, he pairs rigorous quantitative skills with practical delivery. An active contributor to the EF Core project, he has improved data type and temporary value generation—showing a deeper familiarity with backend data mapping and culture-sensitive code generation. Known for bridging consulting rigor with engineering craftsmanship, he thrives on tackling nuanced data correctness and integration challenges at scale.
19 years of coding experience
Vienna University of Technology
Master of Science - MS, Business Analytics, 1.24 (1 best - 5 worst), Master of Science - MS, Business Analytics, 1.24 (1 best - 5 worst) at Universität Wien
Bachelor's degree, International Management, 1.50 (1 best - 5 worst), Bachelor's degree, International Management, 1.50 (1 best - 5 worst) at FH JOANNEUM - Institute of International Management
Exchange Semester, Finance and Management, 3.67 (4.3 best - 0.0 worst), Exchange Semester, Finance and Management, 3.67 (4.3 best - 0.0 worst) at Singapore Management University
International Summer School, International Summer School at Mount Royal University
EF Core is a modern object-database mapper for .NET. It supports LINQ queries, change tracking, updates, and schema migrations.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:11 commits, 11 PRs, 83 comments in 2 months
Contributions summary:Michael primarily contributed to improving the Entity Framework Core (EF Core) codebase by fixing bugs and refactoring code related to data type generation and temporary value generation. They addressed issues concerning culture-specific code generation, ensuring proper handling of DateTime, TimeSpan, and decimal values. Furthermore, the user updated dependencies and refactored core components, including expression visitors, to align with breaking changes in upstream libraries.
Contributions:135 reviews, 10 PRs, 100 pushes in 10 years
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