Sylvia Tippmann - Data Architect

Sylvia Tippmann

Data Architect

Berlin, Germany

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Sylvia Tippmann is a Data Architect with 11 years of experience bridging scientific research, applied data science and product-driven engineering across Europe, Australia and the US. With a PhD in bioinformatics and hands-on roles at organizations from Novartis-adjacent labs to Shopify and Signal AI, she combines rigorous experimental design and statistics with production-grade skills in R, Python, NLP and search/relevance engineering. Equally at home prototyping models, evaluating methods and building visual narratives, she leverages a unique science-journalism background to translate complex analytics into clear stakeholder insights. Practical experience across media, legal information and urban-tech sectors gives her a pragmatic sense of what works in real-world data products. She’s known for asking the right questions early, pushing for the “Aha” moment, and for being fearless about learning new technologies such as AWS to deliver impact.

11 years of coding experience

13 years of employment as a software developer

B.Sc., Bioinformatics/ Genome Research, B.Sc., Bioinformatics/ Genome Research at Bielefeld University

Master's degree, Science Journalism, Master's degree, Science Journalism at New York University

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Bioinformatics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Bioinformatics at University of Basel

Master's degree, Science Journalism, Master's degree, Science Journalism at City St George’s, University of London

B.Sc. Hons, Biochemistry, B.Sc. Hons, Biochemistry at The University of Queensland

German, French, English, Spanish

Github Skills (59)

networkx9

gensim8

public-transport8

osm-data8

spatial8

corpus8

geography8

spatial-data8

fasttext8

spatial-analysis8

topic-modeling8

overpass-api8

transport8

r-package8

word2vec8

Programming languages (3)

RJavaScriptPython

Github contributions (5)

sytpp/rtbf

Jul 2015 - Oct 2015

Contributions:32 commits, 2 PRs, 30 pushes in 2 months

sytpp/sytpp.github.io

Jan 2015 - Oct 2015

Contributions:65 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months

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