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Ellen König

Ellen König's DataTalks.Club podcast discussions, organized for topic exploration.

Ellen König

Background

Ellen König is an accomplished engineering leader with deep expertise in data, backend, and machine learning systems. As Head of Engineering at alcemy, she leads two cross-functional teams delivering an ML-powered quality monitoring platform for the concrete industry. Under her leadership, alcemy scaled its customer base from one to over ten B2B clients in less than two years. Ellen has optimized engineering structures, accelerated delivery through agile process improvements, and grown diverse, high-performing teams through mentorship and talent development.

Podcast Discussions

• How to Become a Data Engineer: Skills, MLOps, Pipelines, SQL, CI/CD & Cloud. Discussed: Episode Introduction & Guest Overview; Career Narrative: From Backend Developer to Data Engineering Lead; Motivation to Switch: Blackbox Models, Code Quality, and Professional Fit; Role Overlap: Data Science Tasks That Are Data Engineering Work. Related topics: data science, data engineering, career transition, MLOps, tools.