Filippo Scanzano

Country Manager DACH –

Attractions, Sport & Entertainment

Why did you apply for a job with us?

Great team and superb product. It is also a perfect match regarding my previous career in ticketing, live entertainment and sports.

What do you want to achieve in your new position?

Make Smart Pricer the number one provider of pricing tools and consulting in the attractions, sports and entertainment industry.

What do you find particularly interesting about your job at Smart Pricer?

The diversity of the sectors and the complexity of the issues.

What is your favourite food?

Porcini risotto and saffron pasta

What are your free time activities?

Sports (jogging, football), concerts & events, cooking, chess

Which place on earth would you be right now if you could choose freely?

Santa Severa (by the sea near Rome, Italy)

Charlotte Stiller
Data Analyst

Where are you from?

I grew up in a small village between Osnabrück and Bielefeld. After my bachelor studies in Osnabrück, my master studies and my love for the countryside brought me to Berlin. Our office, located in the middle of Berlin at Rosenthaler Platz, offers exactly what a country girl would expect from a tech office in Berlin: Endless lunch options, a park behind the building where you can watch yoga classes, high ceilings in old buildings and of course a fridge full of Club Mate.

What values does Smart Pricer represent?

In my opinion, the three values of transparency, quality, and team spirit are the most to the core of Smart Pricer.

What did you do before joining Smart Pricer?

Before joining Smart Pricer, I worked as a product and brand manager in the e-commerce sector. In this position, I was constantly faced with the challenge of making my decisions based on data. From a tentative approach to data, I quickly grew an insatiable curiosity and passion for data analytics and Python. After a Data Analytics Bootcamp 2021 and first experiences in a Data Science team, I started at Smart Pricer in June 2022.

What is your favourite food?

My favorite food is potatoes in any form, whether it’s French fries, potato pancakes or smashed potatoes. I could never get enough of anything.

The last book I read was…

“The secret of the black lady” by Arturo Pérez-Reverte. A crime novel that revolves around a painting from the 15th century. I devoured the book – probably also because it combines my two passions of art history and solving mysteries.

If you were an animal, what animal would you be?

Definitely a squirrel – all day looking for the next tasty nut, climbing trees, and in the evening snuggling up in the fluffy blanket I carry with me.

Stefan Richter
Country Manager DACH

I grew up in the Harz mountains, studied in Marburg and after my first job in Munich I have been living and working in Innsbruck for 15 years now.

What do you find particularly interesting about your job at Smart Pricer?

I am passionate about the mountain railroads and tourism industry and our Smart Pricer product ‘Dynamic Pricing’ supports the ski resorts in the area of capacity management and optimization of products and prices, which in turn benefits both the mountain railroads and their guests.

What motivates you?

My passion is to advise our customers with our pricing know-how and with exciting insights, which we discover in the ticket analyses of our mountain railway partners. Together we complete successful projects.

What are your hobbies?

Of course, my favorite thing to do in the winter is skiing – whether on the slopes, freeriding or ski touring – the main thing is to be outside. In summer you can find me on the MTB in the forest.

Which place on earth would you be right now if you could choose freely?

In fact, it’s Innsbruck, because it’s the ideal combination of work and alpine environment for me.

When I don’t have internet, I’m out in the mountains.

Magdalena Blaski-Makara

Data Analyst

Where are you from?

I’m originally from the south of Poland, I grew up in the city of Pszczyna (who wants to guess how to pronounce the name?). I went to school in Salzburg, studied in Krakow and live in Berlin since July 2014.

What do you want to achieve in your new position?

Since I just recently started at SP and this is my first job in the tech industry, I want to learn as much as I can and get involved in various projects to get to know different industries and job roles better. Maybe I will then develop further in the direction of product management or rather as a data engineer. I am very excited about my future at Smart Pricer.

What motivates you?

I like variety – I’d rather work on several smaller projects than one big, monotonous task, which the job at Smart Pricer definitely offers me! When I work like this, I’m usually very motivated and focused, but in order to maintain this state, I also need to get enough rest – I then prefer to spend time in nature and like not to look at the screen for a while.

What is your favourite food?

I love food in general and I love trying new things, but my comfort foods are definitely beetroot soup and oatmeal with roasted apples and nuts.

What are your hobbies?

When I have the opportunity I prefer to go hiking in the mountains. Otherwise I often go to yoga, go for walks, read or spend time with friends in a boat on the river Spree when the weather is nice.

Which place on earth would you be right now if you could choose freely?

Maybe in the Alps in the Bernese Oberland? Or maybe in Andalusia… It’s very hard for me to decide.

Robert Szeker

Senior Fullstack Developer

Where are you from?

I come from a small village to the west of Potsdam: Falkenrehde. I did my A-levels in Potsdam and then moved to Berlin to study. I’ve been living in Ahrensfelde with my young family for a year now. The great thing about Ahrensfelde is that the big city is still within easy reach, but you still have peace and quiet from the noise of the city.

What do you find particularly interesting about your job at Smart Pricer?

The microservice architecture (cloud native) at Smart Pricer is cutting-edge and I’m happy to be learning this style of architecture here. I have the opportunity to learn Golang and was already allowed to program in it in my first week at Smart Pricer, which is brilliant. I have the feeling (can you still say that as a logistician?) that I can develop a lot here.

What did you do before Smart Pricer?

I spent 8 years at movingimage, the YouTube for enterprise companies. I worked as a software developer for several years and was able to work as a team lead for the last two years. I didn’t like this role 100%. I felt uncomfortable managing people who were older than me.

The last book i read…

Perry Rhodan Neo #4. Perry Rhodan ist eine ongoing Science Fiction Buchreihe, die seit 1961 bis heute noch aktiv geschrieben wird. Da ich nicht in der Lage bin, alle Bücher dieser Reihe zu lebzeiten noch zu lesen (es gibt ~160 Bücher), lese ich stattdessen die Neuauflage “Perry Rhodan Neo”, die erst seit 2011 geschrieben wird und leider auch schon über 20 Bücher hat.

What’s your favourite food?

When my girlfriend asks what she should cook for us at the weekend, my standard answer is ALWAYS “chilli con carne”, to which she replies with a roll of her eyes. I’m trying to teach her to stop asking me what I want to eat.

Roxana Meyer

Junior Data Analyst

Where are you from?

I was born in Munich. After my experience abroad through my Master’s degree in Lund (Sweden) and an Erasmus semester in Helsinki (Finland), I moved to Berlin for work.

I have been living in Berlin for almost 2 years now and really enjoy the openness and internationality here.

What do you find particularly interesting about your job at Smart Pricer?

As my first role in the world of data, I am excited to see what new things I will learn. In my previous jobs, I was particularly fond of Excel or data visualization tasks. That’s why I’m now even more excited to be able to do these activities full-time within more complex contexts and tools and to develop myself further in the process.

What did you do before How would you describe the culture of values at Smart Pricer?

The culture of values was my main reason for choosing SmartPricer. I personally find ‘radical openness’ and team cohesion very important. As an integral part of our Weeklys, the values are present and lived 😉

What are your hobbies?

Discovering new things in Berlin, whether restaurants, museums, raves or sports. It’s often a wild mix due to my very diverse circle of friends in Berlin.
I also enjoy being creative; I like painting and, more recently, pottery.

What’s your favourite food?

I love eggplant and cheese, so if either of those two ingredients are included, I’m very likely to be happy.

If i don’t have internet, then…

I am in nature; in the mountains or surfing in the sea
OR very lost, because for orientation nothing works for me without the Internet 😉

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