Steffen Grohsschmiedt
Staff Data Engineer
Norrköping, Sweden
Summary
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Top SchoolSteffen Grohsschmiedt is a Staff Data Engineer based in Norrköping, Sweden with 11 years of experience building and operating large-scale data and ML platforms. He has led cloud engineering for Hopsworks—shaping its managed Feature Store across major clouds—and more recently joined Acast to drive data engineering at scale. His background spans core data infrastructure work at Spotify (roylaties/reporting and Hadoop-to-cloud migrations) and research-grade systems engineering from KTH and Hasso Plattner Institute. As an active contributor to the open-source Hopsworks project, he has implemented Jupyter integrations, SageMaker support, API hardening, and JDBC feature imports, showing a knack for bridging platform internals with external services. Colleagues describe him as an architecture-minded implementer who moves projects from design to production while keeping operational resilience top of mind.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.) Software Engineering of Distributed Systems, Master of Science (M.Sc.) Software Engineering of Distributed Systems at KTH Royal Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Science (B.Sc.) IT Systems Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) IT Systems Engineering at Hasso Plattner InstituteThe Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)
Github Skills (11)
javas10
feature-store10
api10
feature-engineering10
back-end-development10
apidoc10
java10
feature-management10
jupyter9
jdbc9
python8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
logicalclocks/hopsworks
Jul 2019 - Oct 2019
Hopsworks - Data-Intensive AI platform with a Feature Store
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 14 PRs, 7 pushes in 3 months
Contributions summary:Steffen primarily refactored and enhanced the Jupyter code within the Hopsworks platform. They modified Java code related to Jupyter configuration files, addressing non-localhost implementations, and added support for Amazon SageMaker, demonstrating a focus on integrating with external services. Furthermore, they made changes to feature store and project APIs, including the addition of an API key requirement for accessing feature store functionalities, and implemented JDBC connectivity for feature import. The user also made changes for removing the configuration of some dependencies.
gcppythonserverlessai-platformhopsworks
steffengr/hops
Apr 2015 - Nov 2020
Contributions:64 pushes, 8 branches in 5 years 8 months
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