Philipp Brunenberg - Instructor

Q: Where is Philipp based?

Philipp is based in Munich, Germany and can operate in on-site , hybrid , and remote work models.

Q: What languages does Philipp speak?

Philipp speaks the following languages: German (Native), English (Advanced), Spanish (Advanced) .

Q: How many years of experience does Philipp have?

Philipp has at least 12 years of experience. During this time, Philipp has worked in at least 15 different roles and for 13 different companies . The average length of individual experience is 1 year and 9 months . Note that Philipp may not have shared all experience and actually has more experience.

Q: What is Philipp's latest experience?

Philipp's most recent position is Instructor at Spark Rockstars Academy .

Q: What companies has Philipp worked for in recent years?

In recent years, Philipp has worked for Spark Rockstars Academy , Self-owned , Deutsche Börse , DB Systel , and DayCaptain .

Q: Which industries is Philipp most experienced in?

Philipp is most experienced in industries like Information Technology (IT) , Education , and Aerospace and Defense . Philipp also has some experience in Media, Entertainment and Publishing , Banking and Finance , and Food and Beverage .

Q: Which business areas is Philipp most experienced in?

Philipp is most experienced in business areas like Product Development , Information Technology (IT) , and Business Intelligence . Philipp also has some experience in Research and Development (R&D) and Accounting .

Q: Which industries has Philipp worked in recently?

Philipp has recently worked in industries like Information Technology (IT) , Education , Media, and Entertainment and Publishing .

Q: Which business areas has Philipp worked in recently?

Philipp has recently worked in business areas like Information Technology (IT) , Product Development , and Business Intelligence .

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Munich, Germany

Experience

Sep 2023 - Present

2 years 6 months

Instructor

Spark Rockstars Academy

Help developers with individual live coaching to become pro-level Apache Spark engineers
Organize and host multi-day, tailored Apache Spark workshops for development teams
Create educational technical content on a self-hosted blog, YouTube, and social media

Sep 2023 - Dec 2023

4 months

Implement LLM-Based Tax-Automation Tool

Self-owned

Implement a command line-based tax automation and PDF processing tool
Fine-tune Llama2 LLM with custom generated training data for information retrieval from PDF documents
Utilize a student–teacher approach to generate training data with ChatGPT results
Technologies: Python, PyTorch, Pandas, Google Colab, Llama, ChatGPT, langchain, Git, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, Jenkins

Sep 2022 - Sep 2023

1 year 1 month

Germany

Re-Design of a Large-Scale Streaming Application

Deutsche Börse

Conceptualize functional and non-functional requirements, consult business and technical specification teams, and conduct technical reviews
Develop technical design for real-time streaming application processing multi-billion messages per day
Implement Spark Structured Streaming applications with custom outer-join operations, HBase access, and complex data structures
Conceptualize and implement data migration routines from classical data warehouse to event stream–based representation
Technologies: Spark (SQL, Structured Streaming), Kafka (Avro), HBase, Oracle DB, Informatica, HDFS, Zeppelin, YARN, Apache Hive

Dec 2021 - Jul 2022

8 months

Germany

Advanced Analytics in a Large-Scale Knowledge Graph

DB Systel

Implement and operate a SaaS tool for personal time management with full-stack development including a Neo4j backend
Address client stability and performance challenges with a large-scale single-node Neo4j database
Implement a real-time recommendation engine in Neo4j based on Naive Bayesian classification
Develop a concurrent ETL process to load a timely-sorted two-dimensional grid of linked nodes in Neo4j
Perform frontend development of landing and app pages (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Selenium)
Setup monitoring system for Neo4j and automate nightly backups
Technologies: Neo4j, Python, AWS, Grafana, Graphite, PostgreSQL, HDFS, Kafka

Jan 2021 - Present

5 years 2 months

Co-Founder

DayCaptain

Co-founded the fastest personal time planning tool for effective developers

Sep 2019 - Apr 2021

1 year 8 months

Germany

Advanced Graph Analytics on a Multi-Billion Node Knowledge Graph

Ippen Digital GmbH

Design, implement, and operate a large-scale, stream-fed multi-billion node knowledge graph using TigerGraph
Create a forms graph-based real-time recommendation engine for news articles
Perform requirement analysis, schema modeling, and validation of multiple data streams in a knowledge graph
Technologies: TigerGraph, Kafka, AWS, Docker, Kubernetes, Java, Scala, Go, Grafana, Prometheus, Terraform, Helm

Mar 2019 - Jul 2019

5 months

Germany

Implementation of Real-Time Analytics Applications

Telefonica Germany GmbH

Design and implement real-time streaming applications
Deliver internal workshops on Apache Kafka
Technologies: Spark, Kafka, Kafka Streams, Scala, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, Akka Streams

Sep 2018 - Jan 2019

5 months

Germany

Design & Implementation of an Advanced Analytics Streaming Application

Allianz SE

Design and implement a proof-of-concept for an event-driven data analytics application
Develop an ingestion pipeline to transform and feed relational data into a graph database
Technologies: Spark, Kafka, Java, Scala, Docker, Neo4j, Git

Jan 2018 - Jul 2018

7 months

Germany

Feature Implementation & Performance Optimizations of German Document Mining Application

Ayfie GmbH

Optimize a large-scale text analytics pipeline for scalability and performance
Implement knowledge discovery use cases utilizing state-of-the-art NLP and ML approaches
Research and apply efficient algorithms for analyzing large data sets
Educate in-house development team on big data software development and data mining
Technologies: Spark, Java, Scala, Docker, AWS, CI, Spring, Elasticsearch, SQL, Sonar, Git, Grafana, Graphite

Jun 2017 - Sep 2017

4 months

Germany

Machine Learning for Knowledge Discovery in Food Recipes

EatSmarter GmbH

Design proof-of-concept for a calculation pipeline based on multiple heterogeneous data sources and machine learning approaches
Implement data processing pipeline to calculate nutritional values for food recipes
Deploy pipeline on client AWS infrastructure
Technologies: Spark, Scala, AWS, Docker, Python, Git, MySQL, CouchDB

Nov 2016 - May 2017

7 months

Munich, Germany

Team Lead of Software Development

TUM Student Group “Roboy”

Lead interdisciplinary team to develop a child-sized humanoid robot
Responsible for design, implementation, and software engineering processes
Technologies: C++, ROS, CMake, Unix

Jun 2016 - Sep 2016

4 months

Germany

Machine Learning for Automatic Classification of Food Recipes

EatSmarter GmbH

Provide an indicator for the healthiness of food recipes based on expert ratings
Consult on management and design thinking to derive innovative use cases from client data
Supervise generation of training data set and analyze data quality
Implement supervised classification system based on selected features and validate final solution
Technologies: Spark, Scala, AWS, SQL, Git, Docker, Python

Apr 2016 - Present

9 years 11 months

Germany

Freelance Data Engineering & Machine Learning Consultant

Self-employed

Craft high-quality, scalable data-driven applications tailored to client requirements
Create production-ready software solutions leveraging cutting-edge machine learning techniques and robust big data architectures
Collaborate with in-house software development teams and non-technical stakeholders to solve practical problems
Deliver customized workshops to empower teams to develop scalable big data applications independently

Oct 2014 - Mar 2015

6 months

Fürstenfeldbruck, Germany

Research & Development Engineer: Unmanned Aerial Vehicle

Elektroniksystem- und Logistik-GmbH (ESG)

Design and prototype a dynamic mission planner for integration into UAV mission planning software in C++
Research route planning approaches for unmanned helicopters to explore predefined areas for hazardous gas
Implement routing algorithm for integration into mission planning software
Technologies: C++, Qt, CMake, Unix

May 2013 - Sep 2014

1 year 5 months

Fürstenfeldbruck, Germany

Software Engineer & Developer: Aerosystems Avionics

Elektroniksystem- und Logistik-GmbH (ESG)

Develop time- and safety-critical distributed middleware in C
Deploy middleware on a modular avionics platform with interchangeable Unix-like modules
Technologies: C, CMake, Unix

Industries Experience

See where this freelancer has spent most of their professional time. Longer bars indicate deeper hands-on experience, while shorter ones reflect targeted or project-based work.

Experienced in Information Technology (10 years), Education (3 years), Aerospace and Defense (2 years), Banking and Finance (1.5 years), Media and Entertainment (1.5 years), and Professional Services (0.5 years).

Information Technology

Education

Aerospace and Defense

Banking and Finance

Media and Entertainment

Professional Services

Business Areas Experience

The graph below provides a cumulative view of the freelancer's experience across multiple business areas, calculated from completed and active engagements. It highlights the areas where the freelancer has most frequently contributed to planning, execution, and delivery of business outcomes.

Experienced in Product Development (11.5 years), Information Technology (11 years), Business Intelligence (10 years), Research and Development (2 years), and Accounting (0.5 years).

Product Development

Information Technology

Business Intelligence

Research and Development

Accounting

Summary

I am dedicated to help my clients build scalable, high-quality big data & machine learning solutions.

Senior Freelance Data Engineering & AI Consultant with eight years of experience
Expert-level knowledge and experience in big data technologies Apache Spark & Apache Kafka
Content creator on self-hosted blog, YouTube and social media
Founder of the Spark Rockstars Academy: Teaching Data Engineers to Pro-Level
Co-Founder of DayCaptain: The fastest time planning tool for effective developers

Skills

Big Data Technologies

Apache Spark
Apache Kafka
Neo4j
Tigergraph
Big Data Architectures
Kafka Streams
Apache Airflow
Apache Iceberg
Delta Lake
Databricks
Snowflake
Hadoop
Hdfs
Mapreduce
Apache Hive
Apache Hbase
Sql
Mysql
Oracle
Postgresql
Informatica
Yarn
Elasticsearch
Apache Cassandra

Software Development

Scala
Python
Java
C/c++
Clean Code
Software Engineering
Software Architectures
Test-driven Development

Artificial Intelligence

Pytorch
Llms (Transformers)
Tensorflow
Scikit-learn
Nlp
Machine Learning Algorithms
Statistics

Cloud & Deployment

Docker
Kubernetes
Aws
Jenkins
Langchain

Communication

Requirements Analysis
Non-technical Consulting
Training For Developers

Content Creation

Visualization For Learning
Video Creation
Blog Posts

Languages

German

Native

English

Advanced

Spanish

Advanced

Education

Jan 2016 - Apr 2016

Kwantlen Polytechnic University Vancouver

Semester abroad · Computer Science · Vancouver, Canada

Oct 2015 - May 2017

Technical University Munich

M. Sc. Computer Science · Munich, Germany

Oct 2011 - Mar 2015

University of Applied Sciences Munich

B. Sc. Computer Science · Munich, Germany

Profile

Created

February 2024

Last Update

February 2025

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Frequently asked questions

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Where is Philipp based?

Philipp is based in Munich, Germany and can operate in on-site, hybrid, and remote work models.

What languages does Philipp speak?

Philipp speaks the following languages: German (Native), English (Advanced), Spanish (Advanced).

How many years of experience does Philipp have?

Philipp has at least 12 years of experience. During this time, Philipp has worked in at least 15 different roles and for 13 different companies. The average length of individual experience is 1 year and 9 months. Note that Philipp may not have shared all experience and actually has more experience.

What roles would Philipp be best suited for?

Based on recent experience, Philipp would be well-suited for roles such as: Instructor, Implement LLM-Based Tax-Automation Tool, Re-Design of a Large-Scale Streaming Application.

What is Philipp's latest experience?

Philipp's most recent position is Instructor at Spark Rockstars Academy.

What companies has Philipp worked for in recent years?

In recent years, Philipp has worked for Spark Rockstars Academy, Self-owned, Deutsche Börse, DB Systel, and DayCaptain.

Which industries is Philipp most experienced in?

Philipp is most experienced in industries like Information Technology (IT), Education, and Aerospace and Defense. Philipp also has some experience in Media, Entertainment and Publishing, Banking and Finance, and Food and Beverage.

Which business areas is Philipp most experienced in?

Philipp is most experienced in business areas like Product Development, Information Technology (IT), and Business Intelligence. Philipp also has some experience in Research and Development (R&D) and Accounting.

Which industries has Philipp worked in recently?

Philipp has recently worked in industries like Information Technology (IT), Education, Media, and Entertainment and Publishing.

Which business areas has Philipp worked in recently?

Philipp has recently worked in business areas like Information Technology (IT), Product Development, and Business Intelligence.

What is Philipp's education?

Philipp holds a Master from Technical University Munich and a Bachelor from University of Applied Sciences Munich.

What is the availability of Philipp?

Philipp is immediately available full-time for suitable projects.

What is the rate of Philipp?

Philipp's rate depends on the specific project requirements. Please use the Meet button on the profile to schedule a meeting and discuss the details.