Dr. Andreas Hopfgartner

Dr. Andreas Hopfgartner

Cloud Solution Architect Data & AI

PMI PMP, SCRUM PSPO cand.

Personal Profile

I enjoy working with clients to help them make progress in end-to-end Data & Artificial Intelligence projects. Those projects help them establish Business Intelligence in order to gain valuable and business-relevant insight from Internet of Things data. Separating the signal from the noise is what motivates me.
As a data scientist I can offer my customers a broad mix of knowledge and 10+ years of experience in product and project management, business thinking skills, algorithms & signal/image processing, data science & machine/deep learning, data engineering, software engineering, DevOps & MLOps, physics & statistics as well as big data tools on premises or in the cloud.

Get to know me personally (German) or listen to SuperDataScience Podcast Episode 143 about IoT and Data Science .

Work Experience

Cloud Solution Architect Data & AI

July 2020 - Present

Helping customers to be successful with their AI & Data journey.

Principal Consultant Data Science

October 2017 - June 2020

Data Science, Data Mining, Data Engneering, Deep Learning, Machine Learning and DevOps for Machine Learning for customers using sensor data with Azure, Databricks, Spark, Kafka and Python in different industries (transportation, mobility, energy, industry). Leadership & Project Management as well as Customer Success Management for large enterprises.

Lead Consultant & Team Leader

April 2014 - September 2017

Selected project: BMW

  • IT Project Manager and Team Leader for web applications and middleware used in complex configurations of vehicle tests
  • Integration of all system components (frontend, backend, cloud) of a car Remote Software Update including all ECUs
  • Integration of Location Based Services
  • Development of concepts for vehicle tests

Selected project: Zeiss Semiconductor Metrology Systems

  • Data Science, Signal Processing, Image Processing & Algorithms
  • Finite Element methods for high-resolution 3D optical imaging
  • Proof-of-Concept studies with newly developed algorithms
  • Statistical Data Analytics
  • System Engineering
  • Integration of approved new technologies in the customer UI

Research Assistant

September 2009 - March 2014

As part of my doctoral thesis I worked with the physics and medical department and other institutions and companies in order to develop a motion correction method for ultra-high-resolution imaging of surfaces. An additional goal was the development and establishment of new imaging techniques in the field of dental imaging.
  • Data Science, Signal Processing, Image Processing & Algorithms
  • Proof-of-Concept studies with new developed algorithms and MRI sequences
  • Unit Testing
  • Implementation of new MRI solutions within the scanner's real-time and imaging system

Part of the winning team (1st, 2nd movie) of MRI in the Movie Award

Technical Skills

  • Azure: ML, Databricks, AI Services
  • Delta Lake, MLFlow
  • Microsoft Azure Cloud
  • Python
  • pytest
  • mllib, scipy, sklearn, xgboost, statsmodels
  • spacy, nltk
  • tensorflow, pytorch, keras
  • dask, numpy, pandas, GeoSpark, geopandas
  • GraphFrames, networkx
  • Flask, Django
  • PyViz
  • PyMC3
  • fastdtw, tsfresh
  • opencv
  • Pipelines: great-expectations, Airflow
  • C++
  • Java (SE/EE)
  • Scala
  • JavaScript / node.js
  • MapBox, Deck, Kepler
  • Git, GitHub, Azure DevOps
  • Software Architecture
  • Unix / bash
  • Databases SQL/NoSQL
  • Embedded Systems
  • Bus networks
  • IoT protocols

Business Skills

  • Leadership
  • Product Ownership
  • Project Management agile & waterfall
  • Account Management for large Enterprises
  • Customer Success Management
  • Innovation Management

Education

Master of Physics

October 2006 - June 2007

Master of Physics in Optoelectronics and Lasers at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh. During this time I worked with phase retrieval algorithms and signal processing in C++.

Physics Diploma

October 2003 - August 2009

Studies of Physics with a focus on algorithms. For my diploma thesis I worked in dynamic Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the jaw joint under motion.

Certifications

Azure Data Scientist

October 2020

Azure AI Engineer

October 2020

Azure Advanced Analytics for Data Analytics

January 2019

PMI PMP

November 2015 - Present

scrum.org PSPO I

Candidate

Databricks Certified Developer

Candidate