Jan-Lukas Pflaum
Somewhere between data and power markets.
Founding Engineer @ px dynamics
Career
px dynamics
Founding Engineer
Jan 2026 – present
Building and running the data, infrastructure and trading stack at px dynamics.
Terra One
Team Lead Data Engineering
2024 – 2025
Algorithmic trading and battery storage. Startup pace in a century-old energy market. Team of 3. Built the data foundation for ML and trading — market data, order books, time series, fundamentals.
urban energy
Data Scientist
2019 – 2024
Started as a working student, wrote my master's thesis here, and led the research project VideKIS — virtual power plant optimization with renewables.
Education
TU Berlin
M.Sc. Information Systems Management (1.6)
Universidade de Lisboa
Exchange semester
HTW Berlin
B.Sc. Wirtschaftsinformatik (1.8)
Award
Helmut-Schaefer Prize 2023 — Winner (External Works)
"RL-based Strategic Bidding for a Virtual Power Plant in the FCR Market"
Projects
Everything in Git: Running a Trading Signal Platform on NixOS
A two-stage optimization of a VPP simultaneously participating in FCR and Day-ahead energy market
Virtual power plant optimization — bundling small-scale renewables for grid stability and market participation
Portfolio website for German artist Daniel Nagel — 50 years of work, from expressive painting to stone sculptures
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