Tech Roles Uncovered
In unseren Livestreams laden wir Tech Professionals aus Data, Development und Operations ein, die über ihre Rollen und ihre persönliche Karriereentwicklung erzählen.
Research Scientist
Verena Weber was working as a Research Scientist at Amazon Alexa for over three years. Just recently she left Amazon to embark on a new journey as a freelancer with focus on Machine Learning and especially NLP topics. In this interview Verena talked about her career journey and how she ended up as a Research Scientist at Amazon even though she applied as a Data Scientist. She gave insights to her tasks, her biggest learnings and why she was able to do a great job even without a Phd title which is not so common for this role.
Domain Owner Data Science & Analytics
Dr. Anna Hannemann is Domain Owner Data Science & Analytics at METRO.digital. She developed Product Management into the role of a Domain Owner for Data Science & Analytics. With a PhD in Data Science she brings expertise to this role. Anna provides insights to her role and explains the differences between a People Lead and a Product Lead at METRO.digital. Find out more about Anna's responsibilities and how a typical day looks like in this video.
Application Engineer
Sebastian Bomberg is Application Engineer at Mathworks, the company behind MATLAB and Simulink. In this episode Sebastian leads us through a typical day in his jobs. With a background in mechanical engineering and some working experience in academia, Sebastian has a good understanding what Mathwork's customers need to succeed in their data science projects. Find out why he moved from a technical into a customer facing role, what he likes about working at Mathworks and his greatest career booster.
Analytics Engineer
What is an Analytics Engineer? Our guest in this episode was Dr. Marielle Dado who has been working as an Analytics Engineer for the last couple of years. She is an independent Analytics Engineer (freelance) and brings experience in this role from various companies. Further, she has a PhD in Psychology, especially in applied cognitive sciences. In this video you will find out the differences between data engineering and analytics engineering. How to enter the field of analytics engineering? Which skills are required? Which tools are common to use? How communities can help to progress in your data career?
Satellite Data Scientist
In this video you will find out what a Satellite Data Scientist does. This is the interview with Dr. Andrea Spichtinger, Satellite Data Scientist at OroraTech. The most incredible fact about Andrea: She is a passionate firefighter, as a Satellite Data Scientist and as a volunteer firefighter. 👏 In this livestream Andrea provides insights to her job as Satellite Data Scientist. She describes how she was involved in developing the ML algorithms running on the FOREST-2, the latest nanosatellite of OroraTech. Further, she talks about the programming languages she uses and how she benefits from her academic background in physics. In spring she spent multiple weeks at ESA in Rome in order to collaborate with ESA employees on research topics.
Product Manager
What does a Product Manager in tech? How to transition from an analytical role into product management? You'll find it out in this episode of Tech Roles Uncovered. This is the recording of a livestream we streamed to LinkedIn and YouTube. In this episode, Sarah talked to Katy Pusch. She is VP of Product Management at Leap. Before entering product management, she worked as a market researcher and analyst. That's the reason why Katy brings a lot of experience and passion for data to her product manager role.
Developer Advocate
No clue what a Developer Advocate is? In this video you will find the answer! 😀 In this interview, we discovered the job of a Developer Advocate. Sarah talked to Nele Uhlemann who works as a Developer Advocate at Fiberplane. Nele talks about her career journey and provides insights about her daily work as Developer Advocate. You will learn about her tasks and responsibilities. Which skills are needed, especially those that are not that obvious? And find out what boosted Nele's career.
Data Lead
Arman Savuk ist Data Lead bei thomann.io, der Digitalgesellschaft des Musikhauses Thomann. In diesem Stream spricht Sarah mit Arman über seine Rolle, seinen Werdegang aber auch wie Thomann.io Daten nutzt, um Kundenbedürfnisse besser zu verstehen. Arman berichtet, warum er sich für eine Managerrolle bewusst entschieden hat. Neben seiner jahrelangen Expertise für Digital Analytics, beschäftigt er sich gerne mit Menschen und Psychologie. Als Führungskraft lebt er klare Werte vor. Eins seiner wichtigsten Kriterien ist dabei, mit seiner Arbeit stets einen Impact aufs Business zu haben.
AWS Evangelist
If you think an AWS Evangelist is a preacher or has something to do with Christian religion, you are on the wrong side. Although "preaching" or better influencing as well as teaching takes a huge part of this role. 😃 At this event from Tech Roles Uncovered, Sarah Stemmler talks to Manuel Vogel. Manuel works as an AWS Evangelist at kreuzwerker. Manuel explains the idea of an AWS Evangelist, gives an overview about his daily tasks and insight to his personal career journey.
Platform Engineer
Martin is Lead Platform Engineer at Personio, a German HR tech company. Before, Martin worked at Twitter and AutoScout24 in various software engineering and leading positions. In this interview, Martin provides insights to his career journey and about his job in platform engineering. He describes the tasks and responsibilities and how his work is measured. Photo credits to Andreas Gregor.
Data Science Team Lead
Was macht ein Team Lead in Data Science? Wie kommt man dorthin und viel Data Science macht man noch im Arbeitsalltag? Das erfährst du in diesem Interview mit Dr. Alexander Friedenberger, Team Lead Data Science bei PLAN D. Alexander berichtet von seinem Karriereweg, der in der Physik begann, und was er in seiner Arbeitszeit alles macht.
Head of Analytics
How to become Head of Analytics? What are tasks and responsibilities of this tech job and how much tech knowledge is needed? These are questions that we discussed in our second episode of Tech Roles Uncovered together with our amazing guest Jekaterina Kokatjuhha.
Support Engineer
Was macht ein Support Engineer bei GitLab? Im Interview gibt uns Manuel Grabowski Einblicke in seinen Arbeitsalltag. Er berichtet über seine Aufgaben, Tools und die Zusammenarbeit in einem internationalen Team.
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