Oscar Baruffa
Data Expert
Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolOscar Baruffa is a data expert with over 15 years’ experience translating strategic business goals into robust data programmes across banking, sustainability and recycling sectors. He advises C-suite and board-level stakeholders, designing and embedding enterprise-wide data issue management and quality governance while driving operational implementation and cross-functional adoption. Oscar has led large analytics teams and vendor relationships to build automated, sector-leading data pipelines and a flagship web product (FarmFit Insights Hub), and he’s experienced in GDPR, AI pilots (Microsoft Copilot) and open-sourcing tools. Comfortable working across time zones and cultures, he combines hands-on technical delivery (including front-end work on the BigBookofR documentation site) with strategic communications and training to create data-as-an-asset. Known for reducing costs through pragmatic automation and for low team turnover under his leadership, he brings a mix of analytical rigor, stakeholder savvy and practical engineering. Based in Utrecht, he pairs an MSc in Building Services Engineering Management with recent leadership coaching to mentor teams toward autonomy and continuous improvement.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
MSc, Building Services Engineering Management, MSc, Building Services Engineering Management at Brunel University of LondonCoaching Leadership, Coaching Leadership at YEARTH Academy
English
Github Skills (5)
html10
rmarkdown10
web-development10
r10
website-development9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
oscarbaruffa/BigBookofR
Aug 2020 - Jan 2023
The biggest collection of R books (and maybe later some other resources too)
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1 release, 48 reviews, 371 commits in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Oscar appears to have been involved in the creation of a documentation website, as evidenced by the initial project setup (BigBookofR.Rproj) and subsequent commits related to building HTML files and updating various sections. These changes involved the addition of external links and social media integration, focusing on front-end web development and content updates for the Big Book of R. They also contributed to the styling aspects of the site by including social meta tags to the website pages.
r-packagerbiggestrstats
oscarbaruffa/bigbookofr_bot
Jan 2022 - Apr 2022
A bot to automatically post Big Book of R content
Contributions:57 commits, 4 PRs, 50 pushes in 3 months
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