In my current position as Senior Data Scientist at Activision Blizzard, I work on the development and implementation of machine learning algorithms for gaming data. I've earned my PhD in machine learning and computational biology, during which I had the chance to work with excellent scientists at the Machine Learning in Biology group at Max Planck (Tuebingen, Germany), the Machine Learning Group at the Technical University of Berlin and finally in a ML/Comp-Bio group at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer center in NYC. During these past years I've become what I would consider to be a data scientist - solving problems ranging from development of large-scale machine learning algorithms, munging complex data sets, visualization and performing large scale computation in a cluster environment (I'm the author of pythongrid, which is a small tool to compute on a sun grid engine). Going beyond method development, I'm passionate about software engineering, in particular in python and C++, and find it rewarding to engineer a working software solution, transitioning theory into practice.