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About
We are a team of data scientists who share a passion for the R ecosystem. We use our broad skill set to help our customers leverage R-powered analytics across a range of industries and applications.
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.
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 selling worldwide. He then matured 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.
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 a M.Sc. in Social and Economic Data Analysis from the University of Konstanz, Germany. She joined cynkra in November 2020.
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: retail, advertisement, banking, airport logistics and 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 of 2021.
Ben
Ben Ubah is a UI-Expert and data scientist and has an interest in building modern web applications using R, Shiny, and JavaScript. He holds a Master's degree in Business Informatics and has been awarded several R Consortium projects. Ben is the maintainer of r-community.org and participated in Google open-source programs as a contributor, technical writer and mentor. He joined cynkra in 2021.
Christoph
Christoph Sax is a passionate economist and data scientist with more than 13 years of experience in R and has extensive experience in consulting private companies and governemental offices. He is the author of several R packages that are related to time series processing, such as seasonal and tsbox. Christoph holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Basel and is a founder and partner at cynkra.
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 optimization 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.
Layal
Layal Christine Lettry holds an M.A. in economics and a CAS in demography and population analysis. She worked as an econometrician at the Federal Social Insurance Office (FSIO) where she implemented econometric and mathematical models in R. She has been working with R since her Bachelor studies and is passionate about the R ecosystem. She joined cynkra in October 2022 as a data scientist.
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.
Matthias
Matthias Bannert is an analytics and data engineering expert with more than 10 years of experience in research, web development and data processing. He enjoys facilitating the use of open source software in enterprises, education and the public sector. In 2021, he was a co-chair for the annual useR! conference. Matthias holds a Ph.D. from ETH Zurich and joined cynkra in an advisory role in early 2022.
Nicolas
Nicolas Bennett is an enthusiastic statistician, data scientist and R developer. He holds a M.Sc in Interdisciplinary Sciences from ETH Zurich and has recently successfully defended his doctoral thesis on machine learning with intensive care data at the Seminar for Statistics of ETH Zurich. Nicolas is an experienced teacher and a gifted R programmer. He joined cynkra in December of 2021.
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.
Patrick
Patrick Schratz joined cynkra in 2020 and is leading the infrastructure team of cynkra. He completed a M.Sc. in Geoinformatics & Remote Sensing and holds a PhD in environmental modeling (2022) from the University of Jena, Germany. For several years, Patrick was among the core team of the mlr3 machine learning framework in R. His current focus is on workflow optimization, automation and containerization.
Severin
Severin Thöni is a passionate hacker with an affinity for workflow automation and data modeling, making data usable, reusable and understandable. He holds a B.Sc. in Computational Science and Engineering from which he pivoted into data engineering. Severin has been using R intensely for 6 years, having contributed to packages such as timeseriesdb. He joined cynkra in January 2023.
Tobias
Tobias Schieferdecker holds a Ph.D. in Physics with focus on climate science from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, as well as a Diploma of Advanced Studies (DAS) in Data Science from ZHAW. He is an expert in data cleansing, transformation, and modeling and is familiar with both R and Python. Tobias wrote his thesis on the mid-term development of stratospheric water vapor. He joined cynkra in July 2018.
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 tech infrastructure in various professional environments. He is a certified Kubernetes Administrator, a certified AWS Solutions Architect Associate and a Redhat Certified Engineer and joined cynkra at the beginning of 2021.