Simon Weiß
Engineering Manager For The Search Team at Statista
Bielefeld, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolSimon Weiß is an engineering manager and former principal ML engineer with 9 years of experience building production-grade ML systems and recommendations at scale, including the first recommender for cookidoo.de serving over 5 million active users. He blends hands-on Python engineering with leadership—establishing DevOps practices, CI/CD, testing, and team mentoring—while recently embracing Rust for systems work. At Statista he now leads the Search team, applying E2E product thinking and simplicity to improve user experiences. His background spans ML research, cloud-native deployments, and safety-critical speech/LLM services, and he has contributed to open-source ML docs such as LightFM. Trained in Philosophy & Economics, he brings analytical rigor and a pragmatic, product-focused mindset to complex engineering problems.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
M.A. Philosophy & Economics, M.A. Philosophy & Economics at University of BayreuthBachelor of Science (BSc) Business Administration, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Business Administration at University of Mannheim
Github Skills (6)
python10
sphinx10
documentation10
technical-writing10
recommender-system9
machine-learning8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
lyst/lightfm
Dec 2020 - Mar 2022
A Python implementation of LightFM, a hybrid recommendation algorithm.
Role in this project:
Technical Writer & Documentation Specialist
Technical Writer & Documentation SpecialistContributions:40 commits, 11 PRs, 118 comments in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Simon primarily focused on improving the project's documentation. Their commits involved clarifying the usage of features in docstrings, linking relevant documentation, and adding and formatting content in the FAQ and helpful discussions sections. They also made edits to the `doc/conf.py` file, likely to configure and maintain the documentation build process.
pythonrecommenderpython-implementationhybrid-recommendationrecommendation
SimonCW/elm-in-action-app
Mar 2021 - Aug 2022
Contributions:6 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
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