Katharina Sternbauer

I'm a software engineer, a data scientist concerned with data warehouses, tech-enthusiast and tech-geek in terms of PC components, hardware review editor and student. All of this in my mid-twenties. Original 97', gaming with a passion, open for new challenges and a heckishly queer person.

I was born and raised in Freistadt, which is a small, yet very lovely town in a beautiful region called Mühlviertel in Upper Austria. Part of my burning passion for tech-related stuff can be easily traced back to my father. It was with him that I built my first PC and took my first steps in the world of computers.

To take this interest further, I made the decision to the HTL Paul-Hahn Linzer Technikum in the Computer Science department. That was in fall of 2012. Just five years later, I passed my A-levels (Matura) in the summer of 2017 with distinction. After nine months of community service at the kindergarten in Freistadt I took the step and enrolled myself for the Bachelors program of Computer Science at Johannes Kepler University in Linz, Upper Austria. In March 2022, I officially got my Bachelors degree. Already in the fall of 2021, I started taking my first courses of the Data Science masters program, which are finished as of 2023. Beginning with September 2023, I started working on my master thesis focusing on adaptive ETL processes in data warehousing and will hopefully finished in the summer of 2024.
At the end of the study year 2022/2023, I joined the VSSTÖ and have become and activist in Linz. I try to bring in my skills in computer science as good as I can and broaden my knowledge on other topics such as feminism, workers rights, unions, economics and social issues.

As a dorm resident in KHG (Katholische Hochschulegemeinde) Franz Jägerstätter, I am a member of the network admin team. We manage the server and network infrastructure, help people with their computer troubles and are the first dorm members to help give newcomers a warm welcome. Also we are kind of tech-savvy in our own ways.
Besides, I was one of four dorm speakers in the study year of 2022/23. As such, this team is the connection between residents and management, help with preparations and execution of events and are just there for the people. We also, with another team, organized a very successfully summer festival at our dorm.

Besides my academic career and university life, I do enjoy reading, music and good food. For a couple of years know, I have been a more or less active member of the catholic youth in Upper Austria, both taking part in events as well offering knowledge and workforce as a helping hand. I am a former freelance editor for the German tech-portal tech-review.de, or in short TRV. Additionally, I call myself a big fan for the Duckburg universe and I am in love with small ABS plastic bricks. In case you'd like to know more about this and me, feel free to read about my personal interests.

And from time to time, I have the urge, or am simply forced by a lecture, to write some program or develop another interesting solution to a problem. Those university exercises which have also caught my personal interest are shown below.