Curriculum Vitae¶
CV & Profiles
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Summary¶
Chief Data Engineer at Deutsche Post DHL Group and Assistant Professor at Universum College, focused on building scalable data platforms and leading big data and semantic technology initiatives from strategy through delivery.
At A Glance¶
- Current roles: Chief Data Engineer, Assistant Professor
- Primary focus: Big data engineering, distributed systems, semantic technologies
- Core stack: Spark, Flink, Kubernetes, Airflow, OpenSearch, ClickHouse, Kafka/Redpanda
- Location: Bonn, Germany
Experience¶
Deutsche Post DHL Group | Bonn, Germany¶
Chief Data Engineer Jul 2025 - Present
Principal Data Engineer
Jan 2024 - Jul 2025
Tech Lead Data Engineer
Feb 2022 - Jan 2024 - Technical lead for the Data Service Line.
Senior Data Engineer
Nov 2019 - Jan 2022 - Worked on big data engineering and data analysis.
Universum College | Prishtine, Kosovo¶
Assistant Professor
Oct 2021 - Present - Responsible for courses in Data Programming (Python for Data Science) and Distributed Big Data Analytics in the MSc Data Science program.
University of Bonn | Bonn, Germany¶
Research Associate and PhD Student
May 2016 - Oct 2019 - Worked on semantic web, distributed data processing, and big data analytics. - Conducted the Distributed Big Data Analytics Lab. - Supervised master theses.
InfAI / University of Leipzig¶
Leipzig, Germany
Guest Researcher
Sep 2015 - Apr 2016 - Research on semantic web and big data.
KEDS | Prishtina, Kosovo¶
System Analyst and Senior Software Developer
Mar 2009 - Aug 2015 - Analyzed, reviewed, and developed in-house financial software.
EXPIK | Prishtina, Kosovo¶
Software Developer
Jul 2008 - Feb 2009 - Developed software applications.
Education¶
| Degree | Institution | Year | Thesis |
|---|---|---|---|
| PhD in Computer Science | University of Bonn | 2020 | Efficient Distributed In-Memory Processing of RDF Datasets Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Jens Lehmann |
| MSc in Computer Engineering | University of Prishtina | 2014 | Semantic Ranking of Web Pages: The Wikipedia Case Study Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Lule Ahmedi |
| BSc in Computer Science | University of Prishtina | 2009 | - |
Skills¶
- Big Data
- Data Mining and Data Analysis
- Semantic Web and Semantic Search
- Machine Learning
- Distributed Computing
- Scala
- Java
- Python
- Apache Spark, Apache Flink
- Docker, Kubernetes, Kubeflow
- Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins
- Apache Airflow
- OpenSearch, ClickHouse
- Redpanda/Kafka
- Google Cloud Platform
Awards¶
- ISWC 2017 Best Demonstration Award (International Semantic Web Conference)
Talks¶
Selected Talks
- Efficient Distributed In-Memory Processing of RDF Datasets, PhD Viva (29.09.2020) - slides
- The Best of Both Worlds: Unlocking the Power of (big) Knowledge Graphs with SANSA, @LDAC Workshop 2020 (19.06.2020) - slides
- Towards A Scalable Semantic-based Distributed Approach for SPARQL Query Evaluation, @SEMANTiCS 2019 - slides
- DistLODStats: Distributed Computation of RDF Dataset Statistics, @ISWC 2018 - slides
- The Tale of SANSA Spark :: SANSA-Notebooks: Developer Friendly Access to SANSA, @ISWC 2017 - slides, demo
- Distributed Knowledge Graph Processing in SANSA, @HPI Future SOC Lab Day (Spring 2017) - video
- A Demo of Apache Flink with Docker on the BDE Platform, @2nd BDE Technical Webinar (20.10.2016) - slides, video
Publications¶
Last updated: June 2025