Summary
Dean Shaff is a Berlin-based Data Scientist with 12 years of experience blending scientific research and software engineering, currently applying his skills at YUKKA Lab AG. He cut his teeth in radio astronomy—contributing to pulsar timing and telescope-simulation tooling—and went on to found a consulting practice focused on performance engineering and web projects. Dean is especially skilled at optimizing code and delivering GPU-accelerated implementations in Python, C++, and CUDA, while also building practical JavaScript front-ends. Comfortable moving between research-grade systems and production services, he brings a rare combination of domain knowledge in radio astronomy and hands-on parallelization expertise that speeds real-world analytics.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Physics, 3.87, Bachelor of Science (BS), Physics, 3.87 at New York University Abu Dhabi