Felix Riedel
Senior Software Engineer at DeepMind
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolFelix Riedel is a Senior Software Engineer based in London with 13 years of experience building performant systems and intelligent data-analysis tools. At DeepMind since 2018 he combines research-grade rigor with pragmatic engineering to deliver scalable software across languages and platforms. A true all-rounder, he has deep experience in data mining and optimizing runtime behavior—evidenced by performance-focused contributions to the Janet dynamic language and bytecode VM, where he improved hashing and sorting to avoid worst-case scenarios. Trained in computer science at KIT, he blends strong academic foundations with hands-on low-level optimization and a continual curiosity for state-of-the-art analysis techniques.
13 years of coding experience
Diplom, Computer Science, Diplom, Computer Science at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
Github Skills (14)
c1710
algorithm10
data-structures10
algorithms10
functional-programming10
functional-programming-language10
c1110
performance-optimization10
data-structure10
functional10
vms9
lisp9
interpreter9
macros5
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
janet-lang/janet
Dec 2020 - Jan 2021
A dynamic language and bytecode vm
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 5 PRs, 17 comments in 12 days
Contributions summary:Felix primarily focused on improving the performance and efficiency of Janet, a dynamic language and bytecode VM. The contributions involve optimizing core functionality, specifically focusing on hashing algorithms for arrays, key-value pairs, and numbers. They made changes to the sorting algorithm (quick-sort) to prevent worst-case scenarios and experimented with performance improvements using insertion sort for smaller arrays. These modifications suggest an emphasis on improving Janet's runtime behavior.
functional-languagexmakemacrosc-programmingscripting-language
felixr/awesome-config
Jan 2013 - Jul 2014
Contributions:14 commits in 1 year 6 months
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