Daniel Troendle

Data and AI Leader

Greater Madrid Metropolitan Area

About

Experience

  • BASF (4 mos)
    • Manager Data Team
      Mar 2026 - Present · 4 mos

    • Data Manager
      Mar 2026 - Present · 4 mos

      Lead cross-functional data teams (Data Platform, BI, and MDM), scaling capabilities, and ensuring reliable delivery of data products. Define and execute data strategy in alignment with business objectives, covering platform evolution, analytics enablement, and data governance. Drive the development and operation of a central data platform (databricks), enabling standardized, secure, and scalable data products across the organization.

  • Markant Gruppe (1 yr 7 mos)
    • Head of Data Science and Data Governance
      Jan 2025 - Feb 2026 · 1 yr 2 mos

      Led an integrated DS/BI/Data Mesh org (20+ FTE), aligning roadmaps to enterprise strategy and accelerating analytics delivery. Established governance (DQ, metadata, stewardship) enabling lineage across domains. Drove AI-Agents and multi-agent systems; built an AI platform, automated workflows, and enabled teams to use AI efficiently. Advanced the data mesh concept; shipped domain data products with SLAs and clear ownership.

    • Head of Data Science
      Aug 2024 - Dec 2024 · 5 mos

      Migrated a legacy stack to Azure Databricks; standardized MLOps (MLflow/Jobs) and shortened release cycles. Scaled the Forecast & Analytics Platform, improving accuracy and efficiency across product lines. Co-led ‘LLMs in der Praxis’ with HS Offenburg, translating research into production use cases.

  • Senior Data Scientist at BASF
    Jun 2020 - Jul 2024 · 4 yrs 2 mos

    Sales Growth Insights (global, europe): productionized churn prediction, segmentation, and granular forecasting. Co-built platform integration with engineering squad.

  • Data Scientist at Markant Services International GmbH
    Apr 2017 - Jun 2020 · 3 yrs 3 mos

  • Postdoc at Uni Hamburg
    Nov 2012 - Mar 2017 · 4 yrs 5 mos

    - Software development for scientific tools (data analysis, machine learning and large scale computing) - Scientific Publications - Analysis Group Leader: BSM Higgs@UHH - Supervision of undergraduate and graduate Students