Dominik Moritz
Assistant Professor at Apple
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolDominik Moritz is an assistant professor at Carnegie Mellon’s HCII and a research scientist on Apple’s ML/AI visualization team, bringing 15 years of experience building scalable interactive systems for data visualization and analysis. He holds a PhD from the University of Washington where he worked on Vega-Lite, Voyager and other visualization systems, and co-created widely used tools like Vega and Streamlit. His work spans the full stack—from WASM and database integrations (notably contributions to DuckDB-WASM and DuckDB) to front-end visualization grammars and Jupyter/React integrations—yielding tools adopted by Python, JavaScript, and Swift developer communities. At CMU he co-leads the Data Interaction Group, translating research prototypes into production-ready libraries and developer tooling. He has a track record of improving performance, data handling, and developer ergonomics across open-source projects, and his systems have won awards at premier academic venues. An interesting through-line: he repeatedly bridges academic research and production engineering, shipping features that scale from research demos to real-world developer ecosystems.
15 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science at University of WashingtonBachelor of Science IT Systems Engineering, Bachelor of Science IT Systems Engineering at Hasso Plattner Institute
English, German
Stackoverflow
5,805reputation
585kreached
75answers
22questions
unix
top-5%
django
top-5%
internationalization
top-1%
python
top-5%
Github Skills (90)
postgresql10
python10
vega10
json-schema10
testing10
databases10
geojson10
datasets10
apache-arrow10
data-transformation10
code-generation10
linting10
streamlit10
javascript10
internationalization10
Programming languages (32)
Github contributions (5)
react-monaco-editor/react-monaco-editor
Aug 2017 - Nov 2022
Monaco Editor for React.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:7 releases, 19 reviews, 183 commits in 5 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Dominik primarily contributed to the development and maintenance of a Monaco Editor component for React. Their work involved modifying the editor's behavior, updating model values, and ensuring proper integration with React lifecycle events. They also fixed example code and improved the component's theming capabilities. The user also addressed issues related to the editor's dependencies and overall functionality.
editorreactmonacomonaco-editor
vega/ts-json-schema-generator
Jun 2017 - Dec 2022
Generate JSON schema from your Typescript sources
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 releases, 198 reviews, 541 commits in 5 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Dominik primarily contributed to the development of a TypeScript-based JSON schema generator. Their work involved implementing and refining features within the code generation process, which included adding functionality to report the kind of node, refining the type definitions, and resolving issues related to references. The user also addressed code quality issues such as fixing typos. Overall, their efforts appear focused on enhancing the tool's functionality and accuracy in generating JSON schemas from TypeScript code.
generate-jsonjson-schematypescriptgeneratorjson
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.