• 👋 Hi, I’m Aaron.
• 👨‍💻 used to work in academia on decadal carbon cycle predictions at @mpi_meteo funded by @4c_h2020
• 👨‍💻 now Data scientist at XING developing XING RecruitingAgent

Portfolio

AI engineer

• 🤖 nocode telegram scripted and AI conversation automation for non-tech users [stealth]
• 🔍 doTERRA_essential_oils_recos Search and discover dōTERRA essential oils based on user prompt and user oil feedback
• 💬 Building internal RAG for a German political party to chat with their resolutions [code and access on request]

Geospatial

• 🌱 free-lanced part-time als Data Engineer for WMO hosting s2s-ai-competition
• 📏 core contributor to xskillscore, multi-dimensional xarray-based metrics for verifying forecasts
• ⌨️ maintainer of climpred, multi-dimensional xarray-based forecast verfication toolbox
• 💾 core contributor of xbitinfo to reduce storage of geospatial data by compression after bitrounding
• 🦀 vibe-coded bit-round based on bitinformation.jl and numcodecs in rust
• ✨ passionate about making climate data easily usable in python with xarray and intake plugins
• 🌎 daily updating ERA5 surface hourly with 27 variables in spatial and temporal chunks since 2026-01-01 on earthmover.io

Scientific papers

• 📋 reproducible science following Irving, 2015 (BAMS):
  • Spring and Ilyina, 2020, Geophys. Res. Lett. repo
  • Spring et al., 2020, Env. Res. Lett. repo
  • Spring et al., 2021, Earth Sys. Dyn. repo

Talks

• PyData Hamburg, 26.07.2020: Python for Big Data in Climate Science
• DKRZ Tech Talk, 01.09.2020: Intake - Taking the pain out of climate data access