Bernd Kiefer
Senior Software Engineer Researcher at Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz (DFKI)
Saarland, Germany
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Top SchoolBernd Kiefer is a Senior Software Engineer and Researcher based in Saarland, Germany, with 13 years of recent professional experience and a long-standing career at DFKI spanning research and engineering roles. He bridges efficient algorithms and natural language processing, having led the MLT group as Principal Investigator on the EU-funded PAL project and driven applied research into production-ready systems. Comfortable both as a hands-on engineer and team leader, he also has experience in teaching and mentoring across academic and industry settings. His background combines deep algorithmic thinking from a Diplom in Computer Science with practical speech and language engineering gained at paragon semvox and the DelphIn Consortium. Known for quickly acquiring new skills and methods, he frequently translates research prototypes into deployable solutions. Colleagues describe him as adaptable and pragmatic, able to balance long-term research goals with immediate engineering needs.
13 years of coding experience
33 years of employment as a software developer
Diplom-Informatiker, Computer Science, Diplom-Informatiker, Computer Science at Universität des Saarlandes
German, English, French
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Github Skills (34)
marketing-tools10
elasticsearch-cluster10
marketing-automation10
kubernetes-helm10
acs10
logstash10
boilerpipe10
tslint10
kibana9
kubernetes9
helm9
azure9
azure-container-service9
azure-pipelines9
elasticsearch9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
Netbreeze-GmbH/boilerpipe
Jan 2013 - Jun 2017
boilerpipe 1.2.2 - a fork from 1.2.0 with additional features
Contributions:6 commits, 2 pushes, 1 comment in 4 years 5 months
boilerpipe
Azure/helm-elasticstack
Apr 2018 - Dec 2020
Kubernetes Helm Charts and Tools to run Elastic Stack(ELK) on Azure Container Service(AKS)
Contributions:4 releases, 10 commits, 10 PRs in 2 years 8 months
azurekubernetes-helmkuberneteshelmhelm-charts
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