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5 roles, 10+ years
Dennis Thiessen is a Staff Data, Analytics & AI Engineer at Swisscom in Bern, with more than ten years of experience where software engineering meets operations: data pipelines, ML inference in production, and the automation that keeps both running.
Today he builds and models data products on Swisscom’s AWS data platform, in Python and PySpark. Before that he integrated ML inference into a 24/7 semiconductor fab at Bosch, and built research software and test automation in Hamburg and Bergen.
What he cares about most is automation and reliability.
Dennis Thiessen
Data pipelines, data products and the automation that keeps them running.
Profile
Dennis Thiessen is a Staff Data, Analytics & AI Engineer at Swisscom in Bern, with more than ten years of experience where software engineering meets operations: data pipelines, ML inference in production, and the automation that keeps both running.
Today he builds and models data products on Swisscom’s AWS data platform, in Python and PySpark. Before that he integrated ML inference into a 24/7 semiconductor fab at Bosch, and built research software and test automation in Hamburg and Bergen.
What he cares about most is automation and reliability.
Experience
Munich → Shanghai → Hamburg → Bergen → Hamburg → Dresden → Bern
2023 to present
Swisscom
Bern, SwitzerlandStaff Data, Analytics & AI Engineer
Builds and models data products on Swisscom’s AWS data platform, in Python and PySpark.
2020 to 2022
Bosch Semiconductor
Dresden, GermanySenior Data Engineer, Data Analysis
Integrated containerised ML inference into a 24/7 semiconductor fab and built the data services around it.
2018 to 2019
Fraunhofer CML
Hamburg, GermanyResearch Software Engineer
Developed crew-scheduling software and research microservices at the Fraunhofer Center for Maritime Logistics and Services.
2017 to 2018
Vizrt
Bergen, NorwayTest Automation / DevOps Engineer
Contributed Python and C++ to a distributed video-transcoding backend, and wrote the automated tests that gated it in CI/CD.
2015 to 2017
Generali
Hamburg, GermanyIT Consultant
Java/J2EE development and behaviour-driven testing at Generali’s IT services company.
Stack
Working with now
Used in production before
Hands-on with AI tooling
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Contact
Always happy to talk about data, ML and platform engineering. Email is the fastest way to reach me.
dennis@thiessen.io