Erik Nijkamp

- Co-founded TestObject which aims to ease user-interface testing of mobile apps - Leading and integrating the strategy, product and marketing efforts - Executing the business development efforts spanning from co-operations with partners to technology integration - Providing expertise in technology and research with respect to machine-learning and cloud computing

- Deeply involved in the design and engineering of Stratosphere which strives to massively parallelize complex processing tasks through a computational model motivated by functional programming - Assisted in peer-reviewing publications of international high-profile research conferences - Participated in several publications in the parallel computing domain

- Assisted Yannis Sismanis in the research of a massive parallel non-negative matrix factorization algorithm (based on the stochastic gradient descent method) - Engineered a parallel implementation for factorizations on a modified variation of Yahoo's Hadoop framework - Co-authored the KDD 2011 publication "Large-scale matrix factorization with distributed stochastic gradient descent" which won the IBM Research Pat Goldberg Best Paper Award

- Participated in the engineering of a massive-volume transactional integration system for mainframes (System Z) which provided a gateway to the SWIFT transaction network for third-party financial applications - Supervised the QA strategy and implementation with international stakeholders

Development, Architecture, Management Tasks ...

- Incorporated aspects of real-time analytics in SAP CRM as a joint effort of the local SAP data integration and remote SAP consulting departments - Presented the results to the internal stakeholders and a public conferences in Heidelberg and Stuttgart - Published the results as bachelor thesis with the highest grade possible and wrote a technical journal article

- Assisted Andrey Balmin with the research of how to parallelize a ranking algorithm "BinRank" - Engineered an end-to-end search engine integrating technologies such as Hadoop, Lucene, DB2 Viper and "BinRank" - Co-authored the ICDE publication and participating in writing the accompanying patent

- Designed and engineered a case-study utilizing RFID-based tracking of parts assembled in an industrial car assembly production line - Integrated the solution with existing ERP and RFID technology - Presented the findings to the involved stakeholders

- Identified and defined user requirements of a variety of stakeholders with the aim to provide a solution that eases the versioning control of customization of SAP ERP features implement in ABAP - Engineered a web-app based solution by integration existing version control systems with ABAP projects - Integrated the solution in the departments workflow

- Responsible for the design and implementation of a CMS data migration procedure for a merger between the LBBW and BW financial institutions which resulted in a success story of >500k migrated documents with a negligible error rate - Led the customer communication with respect to requirement specification and the migration operations

Development of video-playback component utilizing DirectX.

Information Management, Machine Learning