Timo Babst
Senior Software Engineer at ELCA Informatique SA / ELCA Informatik AG
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolTimo Babst is a Senior Software Engineer based in Zurich with 12 years of experience building data-driven systems and services. He has been developing and evolving HOP, a Big Data revenue-distribution platform for Swiss public transit, turning occupancy datasets into auditable financial allocations. Trained at EPFL with both a Bachelor’s and Master’s in Computer Science, he combines strong academic foundations with practical expertise in large-scale analytics and production engineering. His early work at ABB on outlier detection, user classification and sales prediction shows a consistent focus on extracting actionable insights from user and sensor data. At ELCA he has progressed from software engineer to senior roles, indicating both deep domain knowledge and growing leadership in complex projects. Colleagues value him for making technically demanding pipelines reliable and explainable in regulated, public-sector contexts.
12 years of coding experience
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne
English, German, French
Github Skills (23)
spark10
scala10
data-lake10
lakes9
hadoop9
feature-store9
data-pipelines9
python9
automation9
smart-data-lake9
hive9
data-engineering8
airflow7
aerospike4
spark-ml3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
smart-data-lake/getting-started
Sep 2021 - Dec 2024
Code examples for the Getting Started Guide for Smart Data Lake
Contributions:7 reviews, 14 PRs, 100 pushes in 3 years 4 months
data-lakelakesmart-data-lakespark
eltraining/users-server
Sep 2016 - Sep 2016
Contributions:11 pushes in 2 days
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