Damian Kula
Engineering Manager at DeepL
Germany
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Top SchoolDamian Kula is an Engineering Manager at DeepL with a decade of hands-on experience turning seismological research problems into production-grade data solutions. He bridges data engineering and scientific programming, having built end-to-end pipelines, Airflow clusters, and CI-driven tooling while also installing and maintaining broadband seismic networks. Comfortable across Python, Flask, Docker, Airflow and PostgreSQL, he modernized legacy Fortran workflows into a Python API and contributed maintenance fixes to the widely used ObsPy seismology library. Damian combines fieldwork experience with backend engineering rigor, enabling reliable continuous data acquisition and processing for scientific monitoring. Based in Germany with an MSc in Geophysics, he seeks roles that keep challenging both his engineering leadership and deep data-science instincts.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc), Geofizyka, Master of Science (MSc), Geofizyka at Uniwersytet Śląski w Katowicach
English, Polish, Russian, French, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (16)
seismology10
python10
signal-processing10
waveform10
fortran6
pandas6
docker6
csv6
airflow6
numpy6
cython6
dataframe6
pickle6
data-science4
architecture4
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
obspy/obspy
Oct 2018 - Feb 2021
ObsPy: A Python Toolbox for seismology/seismological observatories.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:27 reviews, 95 commits, 33 PRs in 2 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Damian primarily focused on maintaining and updating the ObsPy library, which is a Python toolbox for seismology. Their contributions included modifying existing code, specifically changing imports, updating unit descriptions, and fixing issues related to compatibility. The user also made some minor changes related to code style. The user's changes were spread across multiple modules, indicating a broad familiarity with the codebase.
seismologypythonsciencetoolboxdata-center
heavelock/obspy
Apr 2017 - Apr 2022
ObsPy: A Python Toolbox for seismology/seismological observatories.
Contributions:27 PRs, 217 pushes, 37 branches in 5 years
seismologypythonsciencetoolboxweb-services
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