April 23, 2025Daniel Seifert10 min read

Why I'm All In for the Senior Data Engineer Position at ti&m

Why This Role Speaks to Me

Honestly? I'm tired of roles where data is just an afterthought. When I saw the Senior Data Engineer position at ti&m [23.04.2025], I knew this was different. At currently 24, I may be younger than your typical senior candidate, but I've spent literally almost half my life coding in Python and SQL (yeah, I started young and never looked back).

What really gets me excited about this Senior Data Engineer position at ti&m is the collaborative approach to innovation. You're building teams that develop complex data processing pipelines together and collectively own client consultations. I love that I'd be working with diverse teams across different industries like Banking, Retail, and Government - because the best solutions ...

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April 22, 2025Daniel Seifert20 min read

Data Visualization Performance

1. Introduction

It's 2025 and data is the fuel of the world's economy. Visualizations have become our dashboards, our maps, our essential tools for navigating this complex landscape. Interactive charts are no longer a luxury but the expected standard. We want to explore data from every angle, to zoom, to filter, to slice and dice our way to insights. But there's a catch: as our datasets explode in size and complexity (think petabytes of interconnected information), this interactivity comes at a cost: performance.

A sluggish visualization is like a car with a sputtering engine. It might get you there eventually, but ...

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April 22, 2025Daniel Seifert5 min read

My Career Skills Audit: Honest Reflections from a to be Data Scientist

The Career Smart Skills Audit test will help you to identify the skills areas which you believe you most need to develop or which are most important for you to develop further.

So I just got my results back from the Career Smart Skills Audit, and let's just say... it was eye-opening! ...

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