Dennis-florian Herr
Deployed AI Engineer at Helsing
Bavaria, Germany
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Top SchoolDennis-florian Herr is a deployed AI engineer and software engineer with 12 years of experience blending high-performance research and production-grade systems, currently building deployed ML solutions in Bavaria. He spent four years at TUM advancing MPI and exascale-ready infrastructure—leveraging smart NICs to accelerate real-time simulations—and taught a 400-student Parallel Programming course with a 96% recommendation rate. His industry work spans scalable Java microservices, MPC platform architecture at Bosch, and high-throughput email infrastructure at HubSpot, plus long-term open-source contributions to Ruby Ethereum tooling and performant i18n utilities used by major projects. Comfortable across C++, Java, Ruby and cloud-native tooling, he has a track record of turning research ideas into robust, deployable services and shaving orders of magnitude off runtime for critical developer workflows. Notably, he combines systems-level performance optimization experience with hands-on deployment of AI systems, bridging the gap between HPC research and real-world production constraints.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
FrontierLab Computer Science, FrontierLab Computer Science at The University of OsakaMaster of Science (M.Sc.) Informatics: Games Engineering, Master of Science (M.Sc.) Informatics: Games Engineering at Technical University of MunichJunior Student Informatics, Junior Student Informatics at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
German, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (15)
solidity10
ethereum10
blockchain10
ruby10
apidoc9
api9
rspec9
json8
http6
activerecord6
rest6
regex6
lazy-evaluation6
ruby-on-rails6
functional-testing6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
EthWorks/ethereum.rb
Jul 2017 - Jul 2017
Ethereum library for the Ruby language
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 3 PRs, 5 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Dennis-florian primarily contributed to the Ruby-based Ethereum library, making changes related to Solidity compilation, client interactions, and data formatting. Their work included updating compiler compatibility, fixing client-side specifications, and adjusting data representation for chain-related data. They also added functionality to handle specific byte string encoding and introduced contract indexing features.
ruby-languageethereum-libraryethereumrubyparity
dfherr/ThreatClassic2
Dec 2019 - Jan 2023
A simple threat meter for WoW Classic & TBC Classic, successor of ClassicThreatMeter.
Contributions:23 releases, 140 commits, 40 PRs in 3 years 1 month
luameterwow-classicsuccessorthreat
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