Ronert Obst
Machine Learning Engineering Manager at Meta
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolRonert Obst is a Machine Learning Engineering Manager based in Berlin with 12 years of experience bridging statistics, research and production ML. Trained as a statistician (MSc Statistik) and self-taught in programming, he has led data science teams at The New Yorker and now manages ML engineering at Meta, bringing both rigorous experimental methods and large-scale deployment experience. His early career in finance and risk modelling honed expertise in time-series, econometrics and automation, while roles at Pivotal exposed him to Hadoop, Spark and MPP databases for big-data ML. Ronert is comfortable moving from Monte Carlo simulation code in R to production Python/Spark pipelines, and has presented at PyData and Strata conferences, signaling a commitment to community and clear technical communication. Colleagues would note his blend of academic rigor and pragmatic engineering—able to translate complex statistical models into scalable systems. He combines a research mindset with hands-on operational know-how, making him effective at turning experiments into reliable, production-grade ML solutions.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Ludwig Maximilian University of MunichBSc, Economics, BSc, Economics at Freie Universität Berlin
English, German, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (60)
multi-agent-reinforcement-learning9
robotics9
plotly-dash9
python9
conda9
decision-making9
os-agnostic9
docker8
linux8
distributed-computing8
golang8
ecosystem8
package-management8
primitive7
r7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
pivotalsoftware/beamer_pivotal
Dec 2013 - Jun 2014
A Beamer template for Pivotal
Contributions:28 commits in 5 months
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ronert/.emacs.d
Jul 2013 - May 2020
Contributions:579 commits, 103 pushes in 6 years 11 months
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