Falk Hüffner
Software Engineering Manager at TomTom
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolFalk Hüffner is a Software Engineering Manager based in Berlin with 23 years of experience bridging rigorous algorithmic research and practical software delivery. He combines deep expertise in algorithm design, computational complexity, compilers and video codecs with hands-on systems knowledge down to CPU instruction scheduling. At TomTom he progressed from senior engineer to lead EV research and now manages engineering teams, translating open research questions into product-relevant solutions for mapping, routing and electric-vehicle domains. His background includes multiple postdoctoral positions in theoretical computer science, giving him uncommon fluency in both formal problem analysis and pragmatic engineering trade-offs. Known for a preference for free software and careful complexity thinking, he excels at turning computationally hard problems into tractable, maintainable systems.
23 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Dipl.-Inf., Computer Science, minor Mathematics, Dipl.-Inf., Computer Science, minor Mathematics at University of TübingenDr. rer. nat., Computer Science, Dr. rer. nat., Computer Science at Friedrich Schiller University Jena
English, German, Hebrew
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Github Skills (80)
rust-language10
garbage-collection10
rust-lang10
compiler10
rust10
algorithm10
crate10
allocator10
standard-library10
cut9
realms9
bit-manipulation9
graph-embedding9
string-algorithms9
nested-loops9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
falk-hueffner/tinygraph
Feb 2015 - Apr 2022
exploring graph conjectures on small graphs
Contributions:54 commits, 52 pushes, 2 branches in 7 years 2 months
datamininggraphsgraphgraph-theorygraph-embedding
falk-hueffner/sematrope
Jan 2018 - May 2020
Contributions:12 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
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