Ferdinand Mütsch
Software Engineer at server.camp
Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
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Top SchoolFerdinand Mütsch is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building full-stack and back-end systems, currently applying data modeling and mathematical optimization to decarbonize industrial processes at Path to Zero. He co-founded server.camp to advance open-source tooling and digital sovereignty, and maintains several projects—most notably Wakapi, a minimalist self-hosted WakaTime-compatible backend, and contributions to the popular go-randomdata library. His background spans academic research in geometric deep learning and autonomous driving at KIT, practical data and satellite analytics at Orbio, and production web and ops work across logistics and automotive domains. Ferdinand combines rigorous research experience with hands-on engineering, teaching, and system administration, making him comfortable from GPU workstations to cloud APIs. He’s an active tech blogger and open-source contributor who emphasizes measurable, reproducible developer tooling and lightweight privacy-respecting infrastructure. A perpetual learner (as his GitHub bio says), he often bridges academic ideas and production-ready implementations.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Android Developer Nanodegree, Android Developer Nanodegree at UdacityMaster of Science - MS, Information Engineerung and Management, 1,5, Master of Science - MS, Information Engineerung and Management, 1,5 at Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)
German, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (17)
strings10
apidoc10
text-manipulation10
faker10
go10
api10
testing9
regular-expression8
alamofire6
recursion6
nodejs6
querystring6
sum6
http6
algorithm6
Programming languages (31)
Github contributions (5)
muety/wakapi
May 2019 - Jan 2023
📊 A minimalist, self-hosted WakaTime-compatible backend for coding statistics
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:94 releases, 61 reviews, 815 commits in 3 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Ferdinand appears to be primarily involved in back-end development tasks, contributing to the implementation of features within the Wakapi API. This is evident from the code changes in the `routes/summary.go` and `routes/heartbeat.go` files, where code related to summary calculations, filtering, and handling API requests have been made. The commits indicate changes to API endpoints, summary aggregation, and database interactions, focusing on functionality and data processing within the API.
wakatime-apigolangstatisticsproductivityminimalist
Pallinder/go-randomdata
Oct 2017 - Oct 2018
A tiny generator of random data for golang, also known as a faker
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 4 PRs, 7 comments in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Ferdinand primarily contributed to the `go-randomdata` repository by adding new functionalities and improving existing features related to generating random data. Their work included implementing the ability to generate random strings from a list and user agent strings. They also fixed a bug related to the `FullDate()` function, ensuring it respects the varying number of days in each month, and introduced the functionality to generate random locale strings.
golangfaker-libraryrandom-datatinyrandom-generation
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