Summary
Nicholas Utikal is a founding engineer and multilingual data/ML practitioner with eight years of experience building cloud-native data platforms and machine learning systems across finance, mobility, and defense tech. Raised and educated in Germany but professionally global, he has driven projects from Berlin to Latin America and the US, blending sales and business development instincts with hands-on engineering. He has built end-to-end ETL and ML pipelines on GCP using Apache Beam, Dataflow, BigQuery, dbt and Terraform, and deployed models for transaction categorization, recommender systems and fraud/AML detection. Prior roles span Deutsche Bank, Delivery Hero and The IQ Company, where he translated analytics into executive-facing insights and real-time dashboards. Fluent in Ruby, Python, SQL and four languages (German, English, Spanish, Portuguese), he combines technical depth with cross-cultural customer-facing experience. As a founder and early-stage engineer at Project Q, he brings both startup grit and enterprise-grade engineering discipline to mission-critical systems.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Ibmec
Bachelor Industrial Management, Bachelor Industrial Management at European University of applied Sciences, Br眉hl
German, Spanish, English, Portuguese, French