Data Science
Adriana
Adriana Clavijo is currently concluding a Master's degree in Statistics and Data Science at the University of Bern. She has experience working in data analysis and applied statistical methods in diverse contexts such as finance, macroeconomics, test and survey data, and consulting. She is also experienced in data processing and modelling with both R and Python. Adriana joined cynkra in December 2021.
Data Science
Andrea
Andrea Ranzato is a data scientist with experience in data wrangling, visualization and reporting using R. He started using the tidyverse professionally at the fraud department of an online retail business with global reach. He gained further experience consulting both in the public and private sector. Andrea got his M.Sc. in Data analytics in Milan, Italy. He joined cynkra in April 2022.
Data Science
Angelica
Angelica Becerra is a statistician and data scientist with experience in consulting governmental offices on large-scale survey studies and statistical analysis. She has developed data analysis projects using R and Python with a focus on visualization, web scraping, and reports. Angelica has an M.Sc. in Social and Economic Data Analysis from the University of Konstanz, Germany. She joined cynkra in November 2020.
Data Science
Antoine
Antoine Fabri is an engineer, science enthusiast and musician, with extensive experience as an R developer and data scientist. He has worked in various industries such as retail, advertisement, banking, and airport logistics. He is the author of various CRAN packages, such as flow, boomer, and unglue. Antoine has a Master's degree in Civil Engineering from the University of Brussels. He joined cynkra in September 2021.
Lead Analytics
Christoph
Christoph Sax is a passionate economist and data scientist with two decades of experience in R and has extensively consulted dozens of organizations. He is interested in the intersection of economics, statistics and artificial intelligence. He is the author of several R packages, such as seasonal or tsbox. Christoph holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Basel and is a founder and partner at cynkra.
Lead Shiny
David
David Granjon joined cynkra in September 2023 and holds a Ph.D. in applied mathematics from Université Pierre et Marie Curie and Université de Lausanne. He is the founder of the open source RinteRface organization, where he develops Shiny extensions, writes books and delivers advanced Shiny workshops. David worked in the pharma industry where he helped design production-ready Shiny apps.
Data Scientist and DevOps Engineer
David
David Schoch is an experienced Data Scientist and avid Open Source Developer with more than 10 years of experience with R. He is the creator and maintainer of more than 20 R packages, where most have a focus on network analysis and visualization. David holds a PhD in computer science from the University of Konstanz. At cynkra, he has a dual role as data scientist and DevOps engineer since January 2025.
HR Assistant
Giulia
Giulia Hamm is an HR Assistant at cynkra and holds a vocational apprenticeship degree in business, complemented by a vocational baccalaureate. Leveraging her expertise in human resource administration, Giulia is proficient in handling a wide array of administrative tasks, both within and outside the HR department. Giulia joined cynkra on a part-time basis in June 2023.
Data Science / DevOps
Jannes
Jannes Muenchow specializes in geospatial data science with a Ph.D. from FAU. He is a passionate advocate for open-source software (see e.g., Geocomputation with R). His experience spans academic and commercial roles, serving as a postdoc in Geoinformatics at the FSU and later as a team lead at GfK Geomarketing. At cynkra, Jannes holds a dual role as a senior data scientist and supporting DevOps engineer.
Lead Technology
Kirill
Kirill Müller has been working on the boundary between data and computer science for more than 20 years. He has been awarded five R consortium projects to improve database connectivity and performance in R. Kirill is a core contributor to several tidyverse packages, including dplyr and tibble. He holds a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from ETH Zurich and is a founder and partner at cynkra.
Data Science
Layal
Layal Christine Lettry is passionate about languages, both spoken and programming, and is a researcher at heart. She holds a Master's degree in Economics with distinction. During her studies, she worked as an assistant at the University of Fribourg and later as an econometrician in the Swiss federal administration, using R throughout her academic and professional journey. She joined cynkra in October 2022 as a data scientist.
Software Engineering
Maëlle
Maëlle Salmon is a R(esearch) Software Engineer with expertise in R package development. She created the R-hub blog and co-wrote the online book HTTP testing in R. She is an editor for software peer-review at rOpenSci. She also volunteers on R-Ladies Global team. Maëlle holds a Ph.D. in Statistics from the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany. She joined cynkra part-time in 2022.
Payroll Specialist / HR Consultant
Manuela
Manuela Jurt is an HR Consultant and Payroll Specialist with an economical background holding a B. Sc. in Business Administration from the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts. With more than 8 years of experience in different HR departments, companies and industries in Switzerland, Manuela has a very broad and profound HR knowledge from A-Z. She joined cynkra in October 2022.
Data Science
Mike
Mike Page is a data scientist with more than five years of experience working with R in the third sector. Here, his focus has been on developing open-source Shiny apps and tools such as the humaniverse collection of R packages. Mike holds a Masters by Research degree in psychoendocrinology and is interested in R package design, Shiny, and data visualisation. He joined cynkra in October 2023.
Data Scientist / DevOps engineer
Nelson
Nelson Stevens is a data scientist with extensive experience in the R ecosystem. He has a strong passion for data visualisation, reporting and web technologies, having developed and deployed multiple production-grade Shiny apps and Quarto projects for the public sector. He holds a M.Sc. in Biology from the University of Zurich, where he built computer vision tools to automate data collection using both R and Python. He joined cynkra in September 2024.
Data Science
Nicolas
Nicolas Bennett is an enthusiastic statistician, data scientist and R developer. He holds an Ph.D. from ETH Zurich. He has finished his doctoral thesis on machine learning with intensive care data at the Seminar for Statistics of ETH Zurich in late 2021. Nicolas is an experienced teacher and a gifted R programmer. He joined cynkra in December 2021.
Data Science
Olajoke
Olajoke Oladipo is a data and R Shiny Enthusiast with an M.Sc. in Informatics from the University of Zurich. Throughout her studies, she actively sought opportunities to sharpen her analytical skills by participating in various data science projects. Her thesis delved into identifying clusters of similar issues from user reviews using BERT. In December 2022, Olajoke joined cynkra as a Data Scientist.
Data Scientist / DevOps engineer
Tobias
Tobias Schieferdecker joined cynkra in 2018. He has extensive experience in defining and optimizing data models and working with databases using various DBMS. Tobias holds a Ph.D. in physics with a focus on climate science from the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, as well as a Diploma of Advanced Studies (DAS) in Data Science from the ZHAW. He is working in a dual role as data scientist and DevOps engineer.
Infrastructure
Wael
Wael Sadek is an experienced DevOps engineer and administrator. He holds a B.Sc in Computer Science and has more than 10 years of experience in managing technichal infrastructures in various professional environments. He is a certified Kubernetes Administrator, a certified AWS Solutions Architect Associate and a Redhat Certified Engineer. Wael joined cynkra at the beginning of 2021.