About

David Horat is a highly technical IT professional with over 7 years of experience in IT management, change management, data management, artificial intelligence, and patent law. He is currently the Head of Department in Prior-art Data Management at the European Patent Office, leading a multicultural remote IT team of over 100 people. David is a multi-cloud strategist with expertise in Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud. David is passionate about people and cultural change management, and he is proud of the people working with him. He is implementing a culture of collaboration and innovation that allows quick failures, agile processes, and recognition. He is also sponsoring an innovation ecosystem that lowers the technical barriers and improves collaboration in data analytics, data engineering, and data science. David's current role involves leading an IT department of over 100 people, delivering over 1000 data pipelines, over 1 billion documents of high-quality prior-art data in over 1 petabyte. He is also responsible for fostering the adoption of cloud-native technologies in a NoOps approach in-house and a multi-cloud strategy on Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud. He is implementing a technology stack that includes Jupyter, MongoDB, Scality, Redis, PostgreSQL, DB2, Kafka, Spring Cloud Data Flow, Apache Airflow, Kubernetes, ElasticSearch, Logstash, Kibana, Google Cloud, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Python, Java, Scala, and Groovy. David has previously worked as the Head of Department in Business Information Technology at the European Patent Office, leading and transforming an IT department of over 10 people. He was responsible for leading the digital transformation and upskilling processes, implementing a culture of innovation and experimentation that allowed quick failures, agile processes, and recognition. He was also responsible for transforming data into actionable insights and acquiring all patent data from patent offices around the world. David has a Bachelor and Master's Degree in Computer Science from the Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, a Master’s Degree in Intellectual Property Law and Business Management from the University of Strasbourg, and an Executive Programme in Leadership from Cranfield School of Management. He also has an Executive Programme in Performance Management from the Chartered Institute of Personnel Management (CIPM) and an Erasmus in Business Management and Computer Science from Fachhochschule Nordakademie Elmshorn. David's tech stack includes Jupyter, Azure, Web, Data Engineering, Data Scientist