Em Grasmeder is a Hamburg-based software developer with 11 years of experience blending data science, production engineering, and team building across companies like ThoughtWorks, Mapbox, Stack Overflow, and recent roles in platform engineering. She specializes in mentoring early-career and highly academic engineers to turn research-grade work into production-ready, maintainable systems while promoting consensus, accountability, and systemic improvement. Her background in economics and experimental research gives her a data-driven lens on incentives and process design, which she applies to infrastructure, ML feature engineering, and secure delivery. Known for pragmatic test-driven development and a penchant for "creative" problem framing, she excels at making complex telemetry and streaming data work reliably at scale.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Left the Ph.D. program after 2.5 years of study., Economics, Left the Ph.D. program after 2.5 years of study., Economics at George Mason University
Philosophy and Religion, Cross Cultural Religious Studies, Asian Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion, Cross Cultural Religious Studies, Asian Philosophy at James Madison University
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