Yuhou Zhou

Yuhou Zhou

Data Engineer with 7+ years of experience building scalable data platforms on Google Cloud. Passionate about creating data infrastructure that drives real-world impact across real estate, education, healthcare, and the life sciences, while enabling AI and machine learning applications.

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Work Experience

Sep 2023 – Present Hamburg, DE

Data Engineer

Engel & Völkers Technology GmbH

Building and evolving key parts of the data platform on GCP — from ingestion pipelines processing tens of millions of records daily, to data models powering company-wide analytics. Drove major reduction in data warehouse costs through strategic optimisations.

BigQuery dbt Airflow Terraform GCP Cloud Run Tableau Claude
Mar 2022 – Aug 2023 Berlin, DE

Data Engineer

Forto Logistics GmbH & Co. KG

Played a key role in the migration from a monolithic ETL tool to a modern ELT architecture with dbt and Apache Airflow. Collaborated across product, operations, and analytics to deliver reliable production datasets and enforced data governance & PII compliance.

BigQuery dbt Airflow GCP Data Governance ELT
Feb 2019 – Jun 2021 Oldenburg, DE

Big Data Engineer

CEWE Stiftung & Co. KGaA

Developed and maintained a Hadoop-based data platform using PySpark and Airflow, achieving a 300% boost in ELT speed. Built ML pipelines including topic modelling on customer feedback and a class incremental learning model.

Spark Hadoop Airflow ML

Education

2018 – 2020

M.Sc. Data Engineering

Jacobs University Bremen

Highest merit-based scholarship recipient, 2018–2020

2013 – 2017

B.Eng. Electronic Engineering

Northeastern University, China

Academic scholarship recipient, 2015 & 2016

Skills & Technologies

Cloud & Data Platform

Google Cloud Platform BigQuery dbt Apache Airflow Terraform Cloud Run

Big Data & Processing

Apache Spark Hadoop Hive MongoDB Matillion

DevOps & Engineering

Docker Kubernetes CI/CD Git

Programming Languages

Python SQL Shell R

ML & Data Science

PyTorch TensorFlow scikit-learn Pandas NumPy

Languages Spoken

English — Advanced Chinese — Native German — Intermediate

Let's Connect

I'm always open to meaningful conversations — whether it's an interesting data challenge, a new opportunity, or simply exchanging ideas. Feel free to reach out.