Benedikt Vogler
Co-Founder & CTO at lytra GmbH
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolBenedikt Vogler is a pragmatic technology leader and co-founder with 11 years of engineering experience and seven focused on AI/ML systems, currently serving as CTO of lytra in Munich. He has a consistent track record of taking products from prototype to paying customers—helping an earlier healthcare startup through an acquisition and launching a GenAI SaaS product before making a data-driven decision to sunset it. Technically fluent in Python, Kubernetes and cloud-native architectures, he blends hands-on backend and full-stack work with product and market analysis to shape scalable offerings. His open-source contributions include usability fixes to the well-known NEST neural simulator, reflecting attention to reproducibility and example-driven developer experience. Trained in robotics and cognition at TUM, he pairs research-minded rigor with startup execution and a knack for translating ML research into business value.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Robotics Cognition Intelligence, Master of Science - MS Robotics Cognition Intelligence at Technical University of MunichBachelor of Science - BS Medieninformatik, Bachelor of Science - BS Medieninformatik at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
English, German, French, Russian, Chinese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (12)
python10
matplotlib10
simulator9
cpp8
neural-network6
http6
keras6
cmake6
tensorflow6
pthreads6
post6
java6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
nest/nest-simulator
Jul 2020 - Nov 2020
The NEST simulator
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 10 commits, 3 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Benedikt primarily contributed to the example scripts, focusing on fixing plotting issues and updating code to reference Nest 3. Their work involved modifying several Python example files, specifically updating plotting using matplotlib and raster plots. These changes suggest a focus on improving the usability and correctness of the simulation examples. The user also performed a merge of master branch changes.
nest-simulatornestneuronssimulation-toolkitpoint-neurons
BSVogler/MovementPathVisualizer
Sep 2016 - Sep 2018
Contributions:1 release, 20 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years
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