Tim Januschowski

Tim Januschowski is a director of engineering at Databricks and site lead for the Databricks Berlin office. He oversees work on object storage & the Unity Catalog across Amsterdam and Berlin including aspects such as performance, security, usability for both Databricks customers and teams. Prior to Databricks he was an applied science director with a track record of ML in production for Zalando (pricing platform), AWS (DeepAR in Amazon SageMaker, Amazon Forecast, Amazon DevOps Guru and Amazon Lookout For Metrics), Amazon internal services (Labor Planning, retail forecasting, capacity planning) and open source (GluonTS) paired with >20 tier-1 publications and corresponding patents. He has experience in managing inter-disciplinary organizations involving multiple remote locations and job roles ranging from applied science, to business analytics, engineering and product management. Apart from management, Tim is technical and has a broad knowledge in discrete optimization, operations research, artificial intelligence, time series analysis (forecasting, anomaly detection, classification), AI for systems & systems for AI and related areas. He is passionate about scientific outreach and the popularization of machine learning techniques in related areas. His community service includes serving as a director at the International Institute of Forecasters and reviewing regularly for the major outlets in his area (e.g., NeurIPS, ICML, International Journal of Forecasting). Recently he has enjoyed teaching professionals and students. He actively advises and invests into early-stage enterprises.