Experience

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  Taurus SA

  • Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland

  • Senior Software Engineer

    • Oct 2021 - Present
    • Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland

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  Pix4D

  • Switzerland
  • Software Development
  • 200 - 300 Employee

  • Senior R&D Engineer

    • Jan 2020 - Sep 2021

    • Project management for R&D effort to improve large scale and corridor mapping• Designing/evolving APIs of photogrammetry backend (C++/CUDA/Ceres/Eigen)

  • R&D Engineer

    • Nov 2018 - Dec 2019

    • Developing photogrammetry backend for 3D reconstruction from drone images• Refactoring, profiling and optimizing large legacy C++ codebase• Maintaining build system (CMake/Conan/Concourse) for internal products and external open-source dependencies

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  EPFL (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne)

  • Switzerland
  • Higher Education
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Postdoctoral Researcher

    • Jun 2018 - Aug 2018

    Software Engineer in two projects:• Preparing large CFD software package 'channelflow' (C++ with MPI/FFTW/Eigen) for open-source release: Reviewing code and programming interfaces, profiling, automated build and testing (googletest via Travis CI), documentation (source code, readme, whitepaper)• Implementing solid mechanics simulation of elastic shells, from deriving the equations (analytical geometry) via implementation (integrated into existing code package in C++/python) to test (googletest) and validation

  • Doctoral Researcher

    • Mar 2014 - May 2018

    Doctoral studies in the Emergent Complexity in Physical Systems Laboratory, developing simulation software in dynamical systems and computational fluid dynamics.Main achievements:• Developing high-performance numerical simulation code for 3D free surface flow problems, fully parallel C++ code with MPI/openMP, >30 000 lines of code written/tested/validated• Researching throughput limitations for droplet injection and sorting in droplet microfluidics• Teaching student groups in turbulence theory, computational fluid dynamicsThesis: "3D Boundary Element Simulation of Droplet Dynamics in Microchannels: How Droplets Squeeze Through Constrictions and Move in Electric Fields", https://infoscience.epfl.ch/record/255307

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  Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Selforganization

  • Göttingen Area, Germany

  • Research Assistant & Master Thesis

    • Jul 2012 - Feb 2014
    • Göttingen Area, Germany

    Part-time. Testing/profiling C++/CUDA spectral numerical code for thermal convection, improving performance (2x speedup) and accuracy. Extending the code to simulate particle transport and display Qt-based live runtime visualization of running simulation.

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  The University of Göttingen

  • Research Assistant / Software Developer

    • Dec 2011 - May 2012

    Part-time, at Chair of Economic Policy and SME Research: Developing software for economic experiments in zTree programming environment

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  Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft

  • Freiburg Area, Germany

  • Intern

    • Aug 2011 - Oct 2011
    • Freiburg Area, Germany

    Full-time internship at Fraunhofer EMI, design, simulations and cost estimates on cubesat satellite missions in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) for active debris removal

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  Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Selforganization

  • Göttingen Area, Germany

  • Research Assistant / Software Developer

    • May 2009 - May 2011
    • Göttingen Area, Germany

    Part-time.• Development and optimization of data processing algorithms for laser-doppler-velocimetry experiments in turbulent flows (matlab/labview/C++)• Extending C++ frontend for FPGA-based data processing of high speed camera images• Developing desktop application for visualizing 3D particle tracking data (C++, Qt)

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  Center for Imaging Science, The Johns Hopkins University

  • Baltimore, Maryland Area

  • Intern / Software Developer

    • Aug 2010 - Oct 2010
    • Baltimore, Maryland Area

    Full-time internship funded by the DAAD RISE program, developing computer vision algorithms for object recognition and image segmentation (matlab/C++)

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  EGOSOFT

  • Freelance Developer

    • Sep 2007 - Sep 2008

    Freelance collaborator in developer network (>600 hours), working on PC game "X3: Terran Conflict" (publisher: Koch Media). Design and implementation of AI/motion routines for non-player characters (bots)