Franz Papst
Senior Software Developer at ORF
Vienna, Austria
Summary
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Top SchoolFranz Papst is a Senior Software Developer with nine years of experience blending machine learning, IoT, and software engineering across academia and industry. He has driven applied research and production prototypes—from privacy-preserving ML and federated learning to on-prem LLMs and sensor-driven precision cattle farming—while shipping tools for satellite data pipelines and quality control in nanofabrication. Comfortable across Python, PyTorch, TensorFlow Lite, Docker and MongoDB, he pairs model-building with pragmatic engineering such as server administration and data-platform design. His interdisciplinary training in software engineering, cognitive science and philosophy gives him a lateral, systems-thinking approach to problems and a knack for translating research into deployable solutions. Based in Vienna, he enjoys bringing creative, privacy-aware ML into real-world IoT and industrial contexts and collaborating on cross-domain innovations.
9 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
ERASMUS+, ERASMUS+ at Tampere University of Technology 1965-2018Bachelor of Science - BS, Software Engineering and Management, Bachelor of Science - BS, Software Engineering and Management at Technische Universität GrazBachelor of Arts - BA, Philosophy, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Philosophy at University of GrazMaster of Science - MS, Middle European interdisciplinary master's programme in Cognitive Science (MEi:CogSci), Master of Science - MS, Middle European interdisciplinary master's programme in Cognitive Science (MEi:CogSci) at University of ViennaERASMUS+, ERASMUS+ at Comenius University in Bratislava / Univerzita Komenského v Bratislave
German, English, Swedish, Russian, Latin, Finnish, Italian, Portuguese
Github Skills (59)
pygobject10
starcraft9
desktop7
synthetic7
emacs7
vim7
python7
generative-model7
data-augmentation6
neural-architecture-search6
keras6
synthetic-data6
tabular6
spacemacs6
ide6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
CPUFronz/solar_panel_detection
Sep 2018 - Sep 2020
Contributions:17 commits, 1 branch in 1 year 11 months
CPUFronz/CapsVoxGAN
Oct 2019 - Jan 2020
Contributions:1 release, 47 commits, 28 pushes in 2 months
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