
Philipp Gergen
Verified Expert in Engineering
Data Scientist and Developer
Zürich, Switzerland
Toptal member since March 6, 2022
Philipp is a data scientist, developer, and leader with eight years of experience helping clients satisfy their data science needs. His expertise spans everything from conceptualizing visualization to implementing complex machine learning models. Phillipp has delivered solutions for transportation, food, B2B retail, sports, and many other sectors. With an educational and commercial background in computer science, he delivers production-ready and maintainable products and solutions.
Portfolio
Experience
- Programming - 15 years
- Linux - 12 years
- SQL - 10 years
- Git - 10 years
- Machine Learning - 8 years
- Python - 6 years
- Docker - 5 years
- Amazon Web Services (AWS) - 3 years
Availability
Preferred Environment
Python, SQL, Git, Jira, Large Language Models (LLMs), Pulumi, Pandas, Svelte, Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI), Cloud
The most amazing...
...project I've co-developed is an automated match report based on football positioning data to guide the strategic decisions of analysts and coaches.
Work Experience
Asociate Director Data Science
UBS
- Spearheaded the usage of generative AI for customer-facing search and chatbot functionality.
- Implemented Azure-based cloud application to provision AI models.
- Automated Tableau reporting, significantly reducing the manual workload.
Team Lead, Data Science
Areto Consulting GmbH
- Led a team of six data scientists while serving as an in-house point of contact for data science and programming-related challenges.
- Consulted and participated in a multitude of customer projects through all phases, including project acquisition, project planning, and implementation.
- Implemented a scalable AWS-hosted data pipeline to automatically process multiple terabytes of data.
- Developed a general-purpose entity matching framework to reliably link entities between different data sources.
- Created forecasting models to predict customer demand in the food industry to reduce food discard.
Data Scientist
Institute for Market Research, Statistics and Forecasting (IMSP)
- Conducted seven consulting projects reliably and independently.
- Conducted 30+ training sessions on technical skills in Python, SPSS, SAS, generic data science and analysis topics, and specialized topics, such as computer vision and advanced Python concepts.
- Supported colleagues in data science-related questions.
- Played a pivotal role in building data-driven online marketing solutions for a major transportation company from the ground up.
- Designed and built a system for product recommendations for a B2B retailer.
- Developed machine learning models for CRM purposes to compute product affinities, customer lifetime values, churn models, upsell affinities, and more.
Manager and Lecturer
Computer-Club
- Conducted weekly courses for ambitious adolescents about a wide variety of programming-related topics.
- Managed the club's organizational aspects and client acquisition.
- Conceptualized age-appropriate lecture content on a wide variety of topics, including basic programming, web development, game development, and IT security.
Developer
Sentiment Analytics
- Developed infrastructure to automatically and programmatically collect and store social media activity.
- Implemented NLP solutions to analyze and classify previously collected text data.
- Aided in algorithmic trading strategy development, backtesting, and optimization.
Experience
Sentiment-based Algorithmic Trading Strategy
Programming Club for Adolescents
Chat-based Interactive Reminder App
Automatic Short-video Generation
Education
Master's Degree in Computer Science
The Technical University of Munich (TUM) - Munich, Germany
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
The Technical University of Munich (TUM) - Munich, Germany
Skills
Libraries/APIs
NumPy, Pandas, Keras, TensorFlow, React, Twilio API, FFmpeg
Tools
SPSS, Git, Jira, Tableau, Microsoft Power BI, Whisper, Terraform, GitLab, Ansible, GitLab CI/CD, Blender, Apache Airflow
Languages
Python, SAS, SQL, R, Visual Basic for Applications (VBA), Java, C#, JavaScript, TypeScript
Paradigms
Agile
Platforms
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Windows, Linux, Docker, Azure
Frameworks
Spark, Svelte
Other
Programming, Algorithms, Software Development, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Data Science, Large Language Models (LLMs), Full-stack Development, Statistics, Computer Vision, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Generative Pre-trained Transformers (GPT), Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI), AI Chatbots, Chatbots, OpenAI, Image Generation, Machine Learning Operations (MLOps), Scientific Computing, Information Security, Pulumi, Cloud, LangChain, Discord, VoiceBot, Videos, Animation, Text to Speech (TTS)
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