Michael Schilonka

Experience

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  Intershop Communications

  May 2008 - Aug 2008

  Application developer

  At Intershop Communications, I created a draft of a standardized user interface for the company's internal tools. They are employed for the operation of e-commerce applications and the technical-full-service. This comprised in particular the engineering of requirements in terms of usability.

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  Sones GmbH

  Feb 2011 - Sept 2011

  Software Developer Internship

  sones GraphDB is an object-oriented graph database management system for a large amount of highly connected and semi-structured data.As member of the Research & Development team, I was responsible for the implementation of REST-based language bindings (in PHP, JavaScript, Java, C#) and documentation of several software components. Additionally, I evaluated and designed a distributed service for remote access of sones’ API used by any enterprise software.As a representative for the company, I have attended the well-known computer fair CeBIT (2011) and also gave a talk about the technology and example applications. Please find a record under the following link (german only): http://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Lori/CeBIT-2011-GraphDB-und-WebCode-Analyzer Show less

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  IBM Research & Development

  Feb 2012 - Feb 2013

  Systems Engineer Internship

  During my time as a member of the ‘System Optimization Competency Center’ I was working on two projects around IBM’s Hadoop distribution, called IBM BigInsights.

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  IBM

  May 2013 - Sept 2014

  As a cooperative student, I am employed at IBM Germany and attend the applied computer science course at the DHBW Mannheim. During this time I worked in several client projects and IBM’s research department. At the university I took part in multiple academic research projects. Finally, I will graduate with a bachelor’s degree (B.Sc.) in computer science. IBM Research Center Almaden is one of IBM’s nine worldwide research labs. I worked as a member of the 'Data Intensive Analytics' division with strong focus on graph databases. During my time as a summer intern, I was totally immersed in existing graph technologies (including query languages, graph processing) and emerging trends in the mentioned landscape.

  • Cooperative Student

    Sept 2011 - Sept 2014

  • IBM Research

    May 2013 - Jul 2013
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  BLUESHOE GmbH

  Oct 2014 - now

  Managing Director

  I manage a very efficient and highly professional bunch of chaotic people.