Karsten Eckhardt, Developer in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
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Karsten Eckhardt

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Bio

Karsten is passionate about building data and data-driven products to create business value. Throughout his career, he's been responsible for the architecture and implementation of data and operational platforms. In a cloud-first day and age, he's a strong advocate for AWS and serverless architecture.

Portfolio

FPT Software
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Solution Architecture, Technical Consulting...
Audience Serv
Python, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Data Engineering, Solution Architecture...
Audience Serv
Python, Data Science, Solution Architecture, Data Architecture, Leadership...

Experience

  • Python - 4 years
  • Serverless - 4 years
  • Solution Architecture - 3 years
  • Team Leadership - 3 years
  • Cloud Architecture - 3 years
  • Data Architecture - 3 years
  • Amazon Web Services (AWS) - 3 years
  • Data Engineering - 2 years

Availability

Part-time

Preferred Environment

Amazon Web Services (AWS), Solution Architecture, Python

The most amazing...

...thing I'm seeing regularly is how much money SMEs leave on the table by not utilizing their data correctly.

Work Experience

Principal Solution Architect and Deployment Strategist

2022 - PRESENT
FPT Software
  • Led the pre-sales activities on two separate opportunities with a large financial client in Singapore as a lead solution architect, directly driving USD 300,000 in sales.
  • Acted as a platform engineer for a large corporate client in the chemical industry in Germany to improve their AWS landing zone offering and reduce complexity in the existing setup.
  • Created and presented lakehouse architectures in multiple pre-sales opportunities with volumes of up to USD 1.5 million.
  • Mentored two junior colleagues on their way to becoming data architects and analysts.
Technologies: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Solution Architecture, Technical Consulting, IT Consulting, Communication Management

Vice President of Data Analytics and Deliverability

2020 - 2022
Audience Serv
  • Acted as the vice president of data analysis and deliverability, spearheading a cross-functional data engineering and analytics department and architecting and overseeing the data infrastructure implementation for over two billion events per month.
  • Led and mentored a team of more than 13 people in the data and analytics department, including data scientists, analysts, data engineers, and one UX designer.
  • Decreased the average time-to-insight by 60% by moving to a cross-platform Lambda architecture combined with a data lake that includes stream-processing on Amazon Kinesis.
Technologies: Python, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Data Engineering, Solution Architecture, Leadership, Data Architecture, Big Data Architecture, Kappa Architecture, AWS Cloud Architecture, Google Cloud, BigQuery, Google BigQuery, SQL

Head of Data Science and Analytics

2018 - 2020
Audience Serv
  • Recruited, led, and mentored a team of 13+ people in the data and analytics department, including data scientists, analysts, data engineers, and one UX designer.
  • Implemented a data-driven culture through a stage of high business growth with a 570%+ increase in revenue, 4x in FTE, and four new markets.
  • Provided analytical and strategic support, helping Audience Serv earn a spot on the Deloitte Technology Fast 50 Germany list in 2020 and 2021.
  • Improved operational productivity by 68% by designing and developing an in-house campaign management system and utilizing serverless microservice architecture on AWS.
  • Saved EUR 300,000+ per year in costs by initiating and overseeing the transition to an in-house email-sending platform.
  • Designed and oversaw the implementation of a data warehouse powered by Google BigQuery to consolidate data from 10+ operation systems using Apache Airflow and Apache Beam for batch processing.
  • Increased revenue in non-core markets by 312% YoY by implementing a new strategy and managed the team that guided a 100% YoY increase for the following two years.
  • Built analytics pipelines by scraping data from platforms without public API for internal performance analysis.
Technologies: Python, Data Science, Solution Architecture, Data Architecture, Leadership, Team Leadership, Google Cloud, BigQuery, Google BigQuery, SQL, Database Design, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Web Scraping, Data Scraping

Experience

shotrLink | Serverless URL Shortener on AWS

https://github.com/R4h4/shortrLink
A full-stack web application to shorten URLs and make their sharing easier. The project is built on top of the AWS cloud. It leverages a serverless architecture to scale from zero to billions of requests, with deployments in multiple regions around the world to minimize latency.

Education

2012 - 2017

Bachelor's Degree in Economics

Goethe University Frankfurt - Frankfurt, Germany

Skills

Tools

BigQuery

Languages

Python, JavaScript, SQL

Platforms

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Paradigms

Database Design, Management

Storage

Google Cloud

Other

Solution Architecture, Data Architecture, Serverless, Team Leadership, Cloud Architecture, Data Scraping, Web Scraping, Data Engineering, Data Science, APIs, Product Leadership, Information Systems, Economics, Entrepreneurship, Finance, Behavioral Economics, Leadership, Big Data Architecture, Kappa Architecture, AWS Cloud Architecture, Google BigQuery, Technical Consulting, IT Consulting, Communication Management

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