Jakob Melchard

Data & Platform Engineer

Experience

Data Platform Engineer

Nov 2024 – Present

ORF – Österreichischer Rundfunk

  • Rollout of centralized data analytics platform, standardized CI & CD and ETL pipeline templates
  • Provisioning and operation of realtime messaging infrastructure
  • Implementation of ITSM workflows and internal tooling
  • Tools: Kubernetes, Crossplane, ArgoCD, Opentofu, Github Actions, AWS, Azure, Kafka, Databricks, Telegraf, Python, Golang, Bash, ETL

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
  • Tools: Kubernetes, Jenkins, Azure, Kafka, Prometheus, Loki, Grafana, ETL

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

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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