Bianca Schlüter
Senior Consultant Search & Analytics
Experience
Consultant OpenSearch
SHI GmbH
- Optimizing the online shop search function based on Magento and OpenSearch
- Advising on eliminating search pain points (composite search, case-insensitive search)
- Data modeling of products (parent) and items (child)
- Workshops to convey domain-specific search understanding
Consultant Elastic Stack
SHI GmbH
- Analysis and optimization of a metadata analysis platform (Elastic Stack)
- Optimization of the index structure and index lifecycle policies
Consultant Elastic Stack
SHI GmbH
Data transformations with Elasticsearch ingest pipelines and transforms
Integrating centralized pipeline management in Kibana for handling Logstash pipelines
Creating visualizations in Kibana using Lens, Canvas, and Vega
Mapping existing legacy system dashboards in Kibana
Creating, customizing, and debugging Logstash pipelines
Setting up alerts based on Elasticsearch Watcher
Role-based access control in the Elastic Stack
Migrating the existing reporting system to a Kubernetes-based environment
Designing and creating dynamic dashboards for business units and technical staff
Setting up alerts with Elasticsearch Watcher and Kibana Rules
Translating business requirements and evaluating Elastic Stack features
Planning and executing Elastic Stack upgrades
Advising on resource optimization
Defining transform and rollup jobs for data processing and long-term storage
Creating Elasticsearch mappings and index templates
Integrating indices with index lifecycle management
Architecture and sizing for Elasticsearch/security clusters
Implementing and configuring the Elastic Agent
Integrating security data sources (cloud logs, firewalls)
Developing ingest and Logstash pipelines for data processing
Advising and implementing data source integrations
Creating data views, visualizations, and dashboards in Kibana
Training on Elasticsearch, Kibana, and Logstash for technical teams and management
Creating data views, visualizations, and dashboards in Kibana
Creating Elasticsearch mappings and index templates
Consultant Lucidworks Fusion and Elastic Stack
SHI GmbH
- Optimizing a search platform in Lucidworks Fusion and migrating it to the Elastic Stack
- Integrating Elasticsearch with existing data sources as an enterprise search platform
- Evaluating machine learning methods for entity recognition
- Developing and conducting custom training sessions on Elasticsearch and Kibana
Consultant Lucidworks Fusion Migration
SHI GmbH
- Assisting with upgrading the search solution from Fusion 3 to Fusion 5, including architectural consulting
- Migrating jobs, data sources, pipelines, and parsers
- Migrating and blacklisting the autosuggest solution
- Improving user experience: more tolerant search, highlighting, language-specific field types with stemming
Consultant Indexing & Search
SHI GmbH
Project 1: Indexing and search solution for chat data
- Developed a web interface (Apache Tomcat) and Apache Solr search
- Implemented Apache NiFi workflows for chat data indexing and review processes
- Monitored daily processes, resolved incidents, updated certificates, patched vulnerabilities
Project 2: Indexing and search solution for audio metadata
- Developed a Java-based web API with Apache Solr backend and NiFi workflows
- Handled monitoring, management reporting, download issue resolution, configuration updates
Project 3: Indexing and search solution for customer rating data
- Harmonized customer ratings using NiFi workflows with Avro implementation and new search fields
- Designed additional indexing solutions, indexed test data, managed certificates
Project 4: Cloud-based GCP platform for communication monitoring
- Built log aggregation with Promtail, Loki, and Grafana
- Created GitHub workflows for automatic Solr cluster deployment and user role updates
- Wrote Liquibase scripts for PostgreSQL deployments
Consultant Search
SHI GmbH
- Replaced a search solution with Apache Solr and implemented a Java-based search API
- Developed NiFi workflows for indexing from XML, PDF, and Excel
Consultant Search (09/2020–10/2020, 04/2021)
- Set up an Elasticsearch log solution environment with Kibana
- Performed performance comparisons of Logstash and NiFi as well as Elastic ingest nodes
Consultant Search (07/2020–08/2020, 02/2021)
- Advised on synonym usage in Apache Solr and Querqy
- Optimized schema and analyzed zero-hit scenarios
Keyword Generator Development
SHI GmbH
- Developed a NiFi workflow for automatic keyword generation for book titles
- Introduced lemmatization and keyword sorting
- Created a Docker-based Python application for uploading into a NiFi workflow
- Set up a demo using Project Blacklight
Consultant Search
SHI GmbH
- Implemented and maintained new search solutions for the online shop and margin calculator
- Managed a search API (Java), backend search platform (Apache Solr), and indexing workflow (Apache NiFi)
- Improved and supported the search solution with partial word search and SSL-encrypted NiFi authentication via LDAP
- Optimized processes for importing, updating, and deleting product information
- Provided operational support and troubleshooting
Consultant
SHI GmbH
- Query troubleshooting
- Alerting with the Elastic Stack
- Supported SSL encryption for Apache Solr
Industries Experience
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Experienced in Information Technology (6 years) and Retail (0.5 years).
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Experienced in Information Technology (6 years), Operations (5.5 years), Product Development (5.5 years), and Business Intelligence (3 years).
Summary
Bianca is trained to quickly understand complex problems and find solutions by analyzing the topic and reducing the issue to its essentials. She is able to look beyond the obvious and consider not only the standard case but also exceptions.
Bianca is used to presenting results and solutions to non-technical audiences, which is also very helpful in client interactions. She counts teamwork and communication among her strengths.
Bianca is excellent at working independently.
Skills
Technical Skills**
Programming Languages: Python, R, Html, Css, Unix Command Line Tools, Xml, Groovy, Javascript, Shell Scripts
Operating Systems: Macos, Linux, Windows
Technologies: Apache Solr, Elasticsearch, Kibana, Lucidworks Fusion, Opensearch, Elasticsecurity
Data Processing And Ai Technologies: Apache Nifi, Logstash, Beats, Elastic Ingest Nodes, Spacy, Scrapy
Other Technologies & Services: Apache Zookeeper, Grafana, Loki, Promtail, Github Workflows, Mitre Attack, Liquibase, Solr Operator, Google Dialogflow, Docker, Querqy, Scrum, Kubernetes, Postgresql
Engineering And Consulting**
Data Processing, Analysis And Visualization
Log And Metrics Monitoring
Relevance Tuning And Performance Optimization
Dataflow Management
Improving And Optimizing Search, Data And Security Applications
Applying Machine Learning Methods (Clustering, Classification, Recommendations)
Advising On Technology Decisions (E.g. Solr Vs. Elasticsearch)
Training And Workshops On Search Technologies, Especially The Elastic Stack
Management-level Documentation & Presentations
Languages
Education
Master of Science · Mathematics
Certifications & licenses
Elastic Certified SIEM Analyst
Elastic Certified Analyst
Scrum Understanding – Agile Thinking and Working
Introduction To Kubernetes
Elastic Certified Engineer
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