Summary
Thomas Ebermann is a data science leader and CTO with 15 years of experience building ML-driven products, data platforms, and applied analytics across media and advertising. Currently Team Lead Data Science at NZZ and CTO of Datapeople, he has led interdisciplinary teams to deliver recommender systems, predictive TV planning, and centralized data warehouses on BigQuery and Hadoop/Spark. His career bridges academia and industry—he holds a PhD from the University of St. Gallen on information diffusion in social networks and has published and taught data journalism, visualization, and network analysis at multiple universities. Thomas is skilled at turning messy, multi-source media data into production-ready pipelines and actionable forecasts, having run 35+ applied projects for broadcasters and consolidated cross-channel media data at Omnicom. He combines hands-on engineering (from scraping and APIs to deployment) with product-first thinking and has a track record of shipping systems used by major Swiss media and retailers. Based in Zürich, he brings rare depth in social network research applied directly to commercial ML and data products.
15 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Diplom Business Administration and Computer Science, Diplom Business Administration and Computer Science at University of Mannheim
Exchange User Interfaces DB Multimedia Technology, Exchange User Interfaces DB Multimedia Technology at University of Waterloo
English, German, Polish, French