Jakob Melchard

Data & Platform Engineer

Experience

Data Platform Engineer

Nov 2024 – Present

ORF – Österreichischer Rundfunk

  • Development of reusable ETL and CI&CD templates, reducing onboarding friction and maintenance cost of centralized data platform
  • Implementation of internal disinformation monitoring dashboard accelerating editorial work
  • Provisioning and operation of realtime messaging infrastructure and resource management self-service
  • Tools: Kubernetes, Crossplane, ArgoCD, Opentofu, Github Actions, AWS, Azure, Kafka, Databricks, Telegraf, Prometheus, Python, Bash

Data Engineer

Sep 2021 – Nov 2024

A1 Telekom Austria

  • High volume (TB/day) near-realtime data delivery enabling operational reporting
  • Predictive network fault alerting based on anomaly detection in live telemetry
  • Transcription and analysis of support center contacts, automating ticket routing and reducing handling time
  • Tools: Kubernetes, Jenkins, Azure, Kafka, Prometheus, Loki, Grafana, Python, Golang, Bash

Zivildiener

Dec 2020 – Sep 2021

Geologische Bundesanstalt

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

Education

Diplomingenieur (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"
    • Co-author:
      • Physical Review Letters 127, 093903 (2021)
      • Physical Review A 105, L051501 (2022)
  • Tools: Python (numpy, scipy, matplotlib), Bash (orchestration and task management), Large scale linear algebra on Vienna Scientific Cluster
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