Philipp Schirmer
Data Engineer
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolPhilipp Schirmer is a Berlin-based Data Engineer with 12 years of hands-on experience building cloud-native, data-driven systems using Apache Kafka, Kubernetes, Java and AWS. At bakdata he designs and operates scalable streaming and distributed storage solutions, drawing on earlier work integrating Ignite, HBase and HPCC for high-performance key-value stores and big medical-data analytics. He blends strong engineering fundamentals from Hasso Plattner Institute with practical product focus—having built web-based data processing platforms and PostgreSQL-backed analytics tools that prioritize fast, intuitive analysis. Comfortable across the stack, Philipp emphasizes continuous integration, open-source collaboration and pragmatic problem-solving for challenging data workloads.
12 years of coding experience
Master’s Degree IT-Systems Engineering, Master’s Degree IT-Systems Engineering at Hasso Plattner InstituteAllgemeine Hochschulreife (Abitur) Mathematics Chemistry, Allgemeine Hochschulreife (Abitur) Mathematics Chemistry at Freiherr-vom-Stein-Oberschule (Gymnasium)
German, English, French
Stackoverflow
161reputation
17kreached
1answer
6questions
Github Skills (200)
testing10
databases10
test-framework10
sink10
deserialization10
junit10
masking10
docker-container10
stream-processing10
k8s10
integration-testing10
paypal10
avro10
statement10
docker-compose10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
philipp94831/mmds
May 2016 - Aug 2016
Contributions:69 commits, 53 pushes, 5 branches in 3 months
bakdata/aws-lambda-r-runtime
Dec 2018 - Jan 2020
Serverless execution of R code on AWS Lambda
Contributions:163 commits, 55 PRs, 129 pushes in 1 year 2 months
serverlessaws-lambdaaws-samawsexecution
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