Andreas Hartel
Staff Software Engineer at Aleph Alpha
Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
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Top SchoolAndreas Hartel is a Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of experience, currently helping Aleph Alpha collect and curate pre-training data for large language models. He progressed through technical and leadership roles at Aleph Alpha—from software engineer to senior team lead—bringing both hands-on engineering and team-building experience. Prior to that he spent four years at SAP and eight years in academic research and neuromorphic hardware development during a PhD at Heidelberg, giving him a strong foundation in low-level systems and computational neuroscience. His background blends rigorous scientific training with production-grade software delivery, making him comfortable at the intersection of research, data engineering, and scalable ML infrastructure. Based in Heidelberg, he pairs deep domain knowledge with practical operational experience in deployed AI systems. An often overlooked strength is his ASIC and neuromorphic hardware expertise, which informs a systems-level perspective on model data pipelines.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Diplom Physik, Diplom Physik at Heidelberg UniversityPhysik, Physik at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität MünchenVordiplom Physik, Vordiplom Physik at Technical University of MunichPhysik, Physik at Université Joseph Fourier (Grenoble I)
German, English, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (14)
warc8
stripe8
stripe-api7
parallel-processing6
opencl6
api6
menu6
vimperator6
submenu6
dropdown-menu6
blocking6
async5
rust5
collaboration1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ahartel/tdgammon
Jul 2020 - Sep 2024
Contributions:36 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 2 months
ahartel/reinforcement_learning
Dec 2016 - Sep 2021
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 10 months
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