Andreas Heider
Chief Research Officer at Quadrature
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolAndreas Heider is a research-focused technology leader with 13 years of experience, currently serving as Chief Research Officer at Quadrature in London. He brings a strong academic foundation from the Technical University of Munich and hands-on research experience from TUM and DTU, bridging theoretical computer science with production engineering. Previously a Senior Vice President at Winton Group, he has led teams at the intersection of research, quantitative finance, and software development. Andreas also contributes to notable open-source infrastructure — helping harden confluentinc/librdkafka by fixing Windows build issues and silencing compiler warnings — illustrating a pragmatic attention to cross-platform robustness. Colleagues describe him as someone who pairs meticulous low-level coding discipline with strategic research leadership to move ideas into resilient systems.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS) Informatik, Master of Science (MS) Informatik at Technical University of MunichTechnical University of Denmark
Github Skills (9)
c1710
apache-kafka10
c-language10
librdkafka10
c1110
cprogramming-language10
build-system9
windows9
snappy8
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
confluentinc/librdkafka
Dec 2015 - Jun 2016
The Apache Kafka C/C++ library
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:16 commits, 7 PRs, 41 comments in 6 months
Contributions summary:Andreas primarily contributed to the `librdkafka` library by addressing compiler warnings and fixing build issues, particularly related to Windows builds. Their work included explicitly casting variables to the correct data types to silence warnings, resolving compilation errors in the Snappy compression library, and ensuring proper file offset handling in Windows environments. The user also made code improvements to prevent busy loops and reduce compiler warnings.
apache-kafkacppkafka-consumerc-libraryc-plus-plus
ah-/rdkafka-dotnet
Nov 2015 - Jan 2017
Contributions:192 commits, 17 PRs, 156 pushes in 1 year 2 months
dotnetapache-kafkaapachecsharpkafka
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