Jakob Melchard

Data & Platform Engineer

Vienna, Austria

Experience

Data Platform Engineer

Nov 2024 – Present

ORF – Österreichischer Rundfunk

  • Rollout of centralized data analytics platform
  • Provisioning and operation of realtime messaging infrastructure
  • Implementation of ITSM workflows and internal tooling

Data Engineer

Sep 2021 – Nov 2024

A1 Telekom Austria

  • High volume (TB/day) data delivery
  • Observability analytics and predictive monitoring
  • Establishment of MLOps infrastructure and processes

Zivildiener

Dec 2020 – Sep 2021

Geologische Bundesanstalt

  • Digitization of license-free works; handling external research requests

Student Tutor

Mar 2017 – Aug 2018

Technische Universität Wien

  • Supervision of undergrad and postgrad students during physics exercises

Education

Dipl.-Ing. (Technische Physik)

Oct 2012 – Nov 2020

Technische Universität Wien

  • Specialising in theoretical physics of wave propagation through complex media
  • Thesis: The time-resolved S-Matrix – Spatial and temporal focusing
  • Python/Numpy/Scipy for large-scale linear algebra on Vienna Scientific Cluster
  • Co-author: Physical Review Letters 127, 093903 (2021); Physical Review A 105, L051501 (2022)