Ardian Koltraka

Data Platform Lead at Magenta Telekom

Ardian Koltraka has worked as a Big Data Tech Lead at Magenta Telekom since December 2021. In this role, they work closely with the business to create awareness for data and design strategic solutions. Ardian also manages project timelines and priorities. Prior to this, they worked as a Big Data Engineer at Magenta Telekom from June 2018 to December 2021, where they focused on developing analytics on a large amount of data using Hadoop technologies.

Before joining Magenta Telekom, Ardian was a Software Engineer at BDM Business Data Management GmbH from May 2017 to May 2018. Ardian also has experience as a Freelance Software Developer at ITPRO from February 2012 to May 2017, where they created applications, websites, and blogs in various programming languages. Ardian also has experience in Human-Robot Cooperation through their Master Thesis Project at PROFACTOR GmbH from August 2016 to February 2017.

Ardian Koltraka completed their education in a chronological manner. They first attended the Polytechnic University of Tirana from 2009 to 2012, where they earned a Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc) degree in Computer Engineering.

They then pursued further education and attended the Technische Universität Wien from 2013 to 2017, where they obtained a Master's degree in Computational Intelligence.

In addition to their formal education, Ardian has also obtained various certifications. These include:

- "dbt Fundamentals" from dbt Labs in December 2022.

- "Python Data Structures" from Coursera in March 2021.

- "Marketing analytics: Know your customers" from Coursera in March 2021.

- "Neural Networks and Deep Learning" from Coursera in September 2020.

- "Functional Programming Principles in Scala" from Coursera in August 2020.

- "DEV-343 | HDP Developer: Apache Spark 2.x (SPLL)" from Hortonworks in July 2018.

- "HDP Developer: Apache Storm and Trident Fundamentals (SPLL)" from Hortonworks in July 2018.

- "HDP Developer: Enterprise Apache Spark 1 (SPLL)" from Hortonworks in July 2018.

- "HDP Developer: YARN Applications (SPLL)" from Hortonworks in July 2018.

- "HDP Developer: Apache Pig and Hive (SPLL)" from Hortonworks in June 2018.

- "HDP Developer: HBase Essentials (SPLL)" from Hortonworks in June 2018.

- "HDP Overview: Apache Hadoop Essentials - Self Paced Training" from Hortonworks in June 2018.

- "Programming for Everybody (Getting Started with Python)" from Coursera (obtaining date not provided).

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Timeline

  • Data Platform Lead

    February 1, 2024 - present

  • Big Data Tech Lead

    December, 2021

  • Big Data Engineer

    June, 2018

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