Utz Westermann
Senior Professional at STACKIT
Oldenburg, Lower Saxony, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolUtz Westermann is a senior technical leader with over a decade of experience designing and operating large-scale data processing, cloud engineering, and backend integration systems. He has advanced from academic research and a PhD in computer science to roles as Staff Engineer and Senior Solutions Architect across European tech and telecom firms, now driving cloud-native initiatives at STACKIT. Known for translating research-grade concepts into production-grade architectures, he has a strong track record in data platform design at organizations like Otto Group, Cloudera, and MOIA. Utz combines hands-on engineering with strategic leadership, guiding cross-functional teams through complex migrations and scalable system builds. Based in Oldenburg, Germany, he brings deep expertise in event-driven and distributed systems—an underappreciated strength rooted in his early research and long tenure across industry and academia.
10 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science at Technical University of ViennaMaster's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at University of Ulm
English, German, French, Finnish
Github Skills (33)
ressources10
flink-sql9
agile9
batch9
stream-processing8
database8
data-warehouse8
agile-development8
data-stream8
streaming-data8
testing8
data-science7
datahub7
monitoring7
spark7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
utzwestermann/schedoscope
Oct 2015 - May 2016
Contributions:8 PRs, 224 pushes, 37 branches in 7 months
lakescheduling-frameworkwarehouseschedulingagile
ottogroup/schedoscope
Oct 2015 - Nov 2019
Contributions:256 commits, 1 branch in 4 years 1 month
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