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Work Experience

• Software Engineer, Tiplu GmbH

  Jul, 2022 - Present

  • Test & Domain-Driven Design of a REST API in C# 10 on .NET 6

  • employed frameworks include EF Core, ASP.NET Core, mediatr (event-driven) and XUnit

• Postgraduate Researcher, Hamburg University of Technology

  Jan, 2020 - Jun, 20222 years 5 months

  • estimated, visualized and analyzed energy consumption data using open data sources and a tool chain consisting of Python with pandas, Docker and cloud infrastructure (Azure), among others

  • administered the research institute's IT infrastructure: server hardware setup and maintenance, (software) process automation using CI/CD methodology as well as Active Directory resource management

  • drafted and successfully implemented a comprehensive overhaul targeting the entire institute's IT infrastructure, achieving substantial reductions in cost and complexity

  • helped acquire a multi-million federal research grant and created an Excel tool covering all expenditure planning

• Typesetter, Hamburg University of Technology

  Jun, 2019 - Aug, 20192 months

  • reworked a script on heating technologies using LaTeX, in preparation for book publishing

  • spun resulting document into an open-source thesis & book template and reference manual, under a permissive license

• , Freelance Photographer

  Mar, 2016 - Jul, 20182 years 4 months

  • held a monthly photography course

  • operated as a registered business

• Student Tutor, Hamburg University of Technology

  May, 2015 - Jul, 20183 years 2 months

  At the Institute of Engineering Thermodynamics

  • topics included: thermodynamics basics, thermodynamic state, cyclic and combustion processes, gas and flow dynamics, multi-phase-systems

• Student Assistant, Hamburg University of Technology

  Feb, 2016 - Mar, 20182 years 1 month

  At the Institute of Engineering Thermodynamics

  • typeset various published books on thermodynamics and fluid mechanics using LaTeX

• Student Tutor, Hamburg University of Technology

  May, 2015 - Feb, 20182 years 9 months

  At the Institute of Product Development and Mechanical Engineering Design

  • tutored the annual, 'major' mechanical design project

  • examined, analyzed and jointly improved on hundreds of technical drawings

• Undergraduate Research Assistant, Hamburg University of Technology

  Feb, 2015 - Sep, 20172 years 7 months

  At the Institute of Modelling and Computation

  • created a data analysis workflow in Python

  • maintained oil test rigs, used in the evaluation of sealing and lubricant compatibility

  • prepared and created microscopy imagery

Projects Experience

• LaTeX Cookbook and Thesis Template

  Jul, 2019 - Present

  A comprehensive LaTeX template with examples for theses, books and more, employing the 'latest and greatest' (UTF8, glossaries, fonts, ...). The PDF artifact is built using CI/CD.

• betterletter

  Jan, 2022 - Present

  A tiny Python typing utility, installable via pip.

• Hackathon 'Hack dich schlau! - Die lange Nacht der Strompreisprognosen'

  Jun, 2022 - Jun, 20221 day

  In a team of three, worked towards acquiring & pre-processing data, then training a neural network to predict electricity exchange prices, using Python.

• Hackathon 'Häcks on the beach'

  Jul, 2020 - Jul, 20201 day

  In a team of seven, worked towards a prototype application for visualizing local, live air pollution in a smartphone AR environment. My role was backend development using Python.

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