Curriculum Vitae

Isabel Drost

Prior work experience:

current Apache Software Foundation: Co-Founder and PMC member at Apache Mahout, PMC member Apache Community Development, Member of the ASF
current Author of various articles on Apache Lucene, Hadoop and NoSQL topics at heise Zeitschriften Verlag Germany and Software and Support Verlag
current Software Engineer at Nokia Gate 5 GmbH.
Topics:
  • Maintanance of a research Apache Hadoop cluster, introduction of and coding support for Apache Hadoop and Pig for internal teams.
2008-2011 Organizer Apache Hadoop Get Together Berlin
2007-2011 Junior Software Engineer at Neofonie GmbH.
Topics:
  • Integration and streamlining of internal Apache UIMA components.
  • Troubleshooting search-based web applications.
  • Implementation of a search index registration service based on Apache Zookeeper.
  • Redesign and re-implementation of the meta search framework federator.
  • Integration of Apache Lucene into a research prototype.
2007 Scientific assistant at the Max Planck Institut für Informatik.
Topics:Development of a ranking algorithm based on click data.
2006 Scientific assistant at the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin.
Topics:Development a ranking algorithm based on click data.
2005-2006 Internship at the Google Switzerland GmbH.
Topics:Member of the search quality team.
since 2003 Scientific assistant at the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin.
Topics: Machine Learning and Link Mining. Development of new algorithms for mining linked data, such as web pages or scientific publications.
  • Design and implementation of search engine spam web pages based on link- and content information.
  • Development and implementation of clustering algorithms exploiting the link structure among documents for topic identification.

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Personal goals and interests:

I am interested in developing open source software. My main interests are large scale information retrieval and machine learning.

I am active developer at Apache Mahout, a project focussed on implementing scalable machine learning algorithms - currently mostly based on Apache Hadoop.

Education:

1999-2003 Student at the University of applied sciences Mittweida
"Applied Computer Science" (specialization in Practical Computer Science)

Internship: August 2001 - Januar 2002 at Vectriz Solutions (now "Arc Solutions"), Chemnitz
Task:Enhancement of the user interface of a parts library management application (Remarc). Ported the application's internal data file format from proprietary to XML.
  • Java development.
  • Java user interfaces (Swing, JList).
  • Processing XML with Java.
Internship: March 2002 - Juli 2002 at Network Nation in Berlin/ Kreuzberg
Task: Conceptual design and implementation of a framwork for the development of online games.
  • Relational database design.
  • Prototyping of user interface in PHP.
  • Implementation of game framework and database access in C.
Internship: September 2002 - March 2003 at LEC
Task: Participant in the development of a graphical remote system monitor for the embedded OS μCos
  • Conceptual design of a modular, extensible architecture for the system monitor in UML.
  • Implementation of the monitor's PC side functionality.
  • Implementation of user interfaces using the Qt library.

Diploma thesis: April 2003 - November 2003 at LEC
Task: "Estimation of Execution Frequencies and Probabilities in complex OO-Systems"
  • Development of a UML compiler module for code analysis.
  • Mapping of processor branch prediction heuristics to branch prediction in OO-Systems.
  • Implementation of branch prediction based on a neural network.
1992-1999 Martin - Luther - Gymnasium Hartha (high school)
1987-1992 POS - Hanno - Günther Waldheim