Oliver Baltzer
Vice President, Director Of Technology at Verisk
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolOliver Baltzer is a seasoned technology leader with 21 years of experience in high-performance and distributed computing, currently serving as Vice President and Director of Technology at Verisk and CTO at analyzere. He combines deep academic credentials—a PhD in Computer Science and an MSc in High-Performance Computing—with hands-on expertise in C++, CUDA/GPGPU, Infiniband, and Monte Carlo–based risk and catastrophe modeling. Oliver has a track record of designing real-time, event-driven systems for financial and insurance risk engineering, translating complex simulations into production-grade, low-latency platforms. As an adjunct professor he maintains active ties to research and talent development, bringing rigorous scientific methods to practical system design. Colleagues describe him as an entrepreneurial technologist who bridges theoretical HPC advances and robust, scalable product engineering.
20 years of coding experience
MSc, High-Performance Computing, MSc, High-Performance Computing at University of ReadingPhD, Computer Science, PhD, Computer Science at Dalhousie UniversityDipl.-Ing., Computer Engineering, Dipl.-Ing., Computer Engineering at Fachhochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Berlin
English, German
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Github Skills (26)
network-visualization9
python-interface9
tiddlywiki9
html-minifier8
knowledge-management8
visualization7
drawing7
ethernet7
knowledge-graph7
e-mail6
mean6
pure-python6
statistics6
bash6
java6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
obaltzer/cynthia.lu
Oct 2015 - Apr 2023
Contributions:8 pushes, 2 branches in 7 years 7 months
html-presentationframeworkpresentationpresentation-framework
obaltzer/buffertree
Jun 2005 - Nov 2012
Contributions:2 commits in 7 years 5 months
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