is Director of Engineering and Site Lead Berlin for Databricks. Before joining Databricks, he was the Director of Pricing Platform at Zalando SE, where he leads the organization responsible for setting prices for the Zalando wholesale business. This involves forecasting of demand heavily. Prior to Zalando, Tim led the time series science organization for Amazon Web Services’ AI division. His teams built multiple AI services for AWS such as SageMaker, Forecast, Lookout for Metrics, and DevOps Guru, top-tier scientific publications, patents, and open source. Tim is a director at the International Institute of Forecasters, serves as a reviewer for the major ML venues, lectures at TU Munich, and advises start-ups such as WhyLabs.

is a software engineer at a large social media platform. Before that, he was principal machine learning scientist at Amazon, where he worked on some of the largest time series prediction problems on the planet. As part of AWS AI Labs, he helped create the technology behind AWS services such as Sagemaker, Amazon Forecast, and Amazon DevOps Guru, and co-created the open-source deep learning forecasting library GluonTS. Before building services for AWS, he worked on a wide range of forecasting and time series analysis problems across Amazon’s businesses, including the massive-scale retail demand forecasting problem, AWS capacity planning, workforce planning, price forecasting, and anomaly detection for cloud resources. Jan holds a Ph.D. in Machine Learning from UCL, has co-authored over 30 scientific articles on time series modeling, served as area chair and reviewer for NeurIPS and other major ML conferences, and has given numerous keynotes, lectures, and tutorials on forecasting.