Knowledge shared is knowledge squared. This is a selection of my publications:
- Article published in Data Engineer Things, May, 2025: Airflow 3 and Airflow AI SDK in Action — Analyzing League of Legends
DET front page / May 2025
- Interview published in local newspaper Nordwest-Zeitung / Anzeiger für Harlingerland: Videospiel-Experte Volker Janz aus Esens lebt seinen “American Dream”
Local newspaper Anzeiger für Harlingerland front page (print) / March 2025
- Article published in Data Engineer Things, February, 2025: The American Dream ETL — A Data Engineer’s O-1A Journey
- Article published in Data Engineer Things, December, 2024: Talk to Airflow — Build an AI Agent Using PydanticAI and Gemini 2.0
- Article published in Data Engineer Things, December, 2024: Your Machine, Your AI — The Ultimate Local Productivity Stack with Ollama
- Article published in the German online magazine CIO, December, 2024: Der GenAI-Alltag in Hamburgs größtem Gaming-Unternehmen
CIO front page / December 2024
- Article published in Data Engineer Things, November, 2024: From Scrolls to Similarity Search: Building a Movie Recommender with DuckDB VSS
- Article published in Data Engineer Things, November, 2024: Stop Creating Multiple Airflow DAGs for Reloads and Parallel Processing
- Article published in Data Engineer Things, November, 2024: The AI Bottleneck — It’s Not Data, It’s People
- Article published in the German online magazine Computerwoche, October, 2024: Der GenAI-Alltag in Hamburgs größtem Gaming-Unternehmen
Computerwoche front page / October 2024
- Article published in Data Engineer Things, July, 2024: Netflix Maestro and Apache Airflow — Competitors or Companions in Workflow Orchestration?
- Article published in Data Engineer Things, May, 2024: Minds and Machines — AI for Mental Health Support, Fine-Tuning LLMs with LoRA in Practice
- Article published in Data Engineer Things, April, 2024: Create your own Gemini AI-chatbot with a twist using Python, Jinja2 and NiceGUI
- Article published in Towards Data Science, April, 2024: Create an AI-Driven Movie Quiz with Gemini LLM, Python, FastAPI, Pydantic, RAG and more
- Article published in Data Engineer Things, April, 2024: Easter egg hunt with BigQuery and User-Defined Functions (UDFs)
- Article published in the German online magazine BigData-Insider, March, 2024: Big Data im Gaming – Echtzeit-Kundeninteraktion mit Kafka und Flink
BigData-Insider front page / March 2024
- Article published in Towards Data Science, March, 2024: Real-Time Twitch Chat Sentiment Analysis with Apache Flink
- Article published in Data Engineer Things, March, 2024: Gotta process ’em all — DuckDB masters your data like a Pokémon trainer
- Article published in Data Engineer Things, March, 2024: Exploring StarCraft 2 data with Airflow, DuckDB and Streamlit
- Article published in Towards Data Science, March, 2024: A Definitive Guide to Using BigQuery Efficiently
