Paul Balm
Strategic Cloud Engineer
Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain
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Top SchoolPaul Balm is a Strategic Cloud Engineer with a PhD in particle physics and over two decades of experience turning complex scientific and travel data into operational value. He built big-data software for ESA missions (INTEGRAL, Herschel, Gaia), transitioned to data science leadership at Amadeus where he shaped airline analytics and presales solutions, and now advises cloud-scale customers at Google. Comfortable bridging research-grade rigor and product-focused delivery, he leads data science efforts from discovery through commercialisation. Based in Madrid, he balances high-velocity technical leadership with a penchant for cycling fast down dirt mountain roads—an indicator of his appetite for calculated risk and momentum.
10 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Chicago (IL), USAMaster of Science (M.Sc.), Master of Science (M.Sc.) at Universiteit van AmsterdamStedelijk Gymnasium, Haarlem, The Netherlands
English, Dutch, Spanish, Italian, German
Stackoverflow
2,178reputation
346kreached
29answers
5questions
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eclipse
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Github Skills (101)
data-stream10
google-cloud-platform10
dataflow10
astronomy10
google-cloud-dataflow10
bigtable10
gcp10
google-cloud10
google-cloud-ml10
fourier-transform10
sqf10
data-loss-prevention10
bigquery10
stackdriver10
spectral10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
pbalm/vertex-samples
May 2022 - Nov 2023
Contributions:25 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 6 months
pbalm/dave
Oct 2016 - Jan 2017
Contributions:1 release, 3 PRs, 7 pushes in 3 months
data-analysispythoneventstime-series-analysisgui
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