Oliver Willekens
Team Lead at Dataminded
Halle (Saale), Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
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Top SchoolOliver Willekens is a senior data engineer and team lead with 12 years of experience turning complex data challenges into production-ready pipelines and pragmatic ML solutions. Based in Halle (Saale), he leads and shapes teams at Dataminded while continuing hands-on work in Spark, Airflow, Terraform, Scala and Python across AWS and Azure. He also runs and coordinates technical training—authoring courses and delivering interactive workshops—to raise the skill level of engineers and clients across logistics, automotive, retail, energy and telecom. Trained as a physicist and former photonics PhD student, he brings a rigorous experimental mindset to data engineering and a knack for visualizing complex concepts clearly. Colleagues know him as a coach who isn’t afraid to get his hands dirty to deliver high-quality, maintainable systems. He lives by “never stop learning,” blending research-era curiosity with practical, cloud-native delivery.
12 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science and Engineering, Photonics, electronics, Master of Science and Engineering, Photonics, electronics at Ghent University
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Github Skills (83)
python10
sympy10
command-line-interface10
microsoft-azure10
r10
numpy10
sql10
azure10
spark10
java10
scala10
aws-cli10
amazon10
microsoft10
amazon-web-services10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
oliverw1/dotfiles
Feb 2021 - Jul 2022
Contributions:38 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
datamindedacademy/spark_on_kubernetes
Aug 2022 - Mar 2024
Contributions:15 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 7 months
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