George Kierstein
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Nubank
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolGeorge Kierstein is a Senior Staff Software Engineer based in Berlin with 11 years of professional experience building low-latency, high-volume financial systems at Nubank and earlier scientifically rigorous, high-performance platforms at NOAA. He combines deep systems and multimedia engineering—spanning C/C++, Java, distributed processing and real-time audio/video—with a strong background in scientific correctness from climate data and computational neuroscience. George has a history of founding and scaling technical teams and products, from privacy-focused Disconnect to multimedia forensics and live streaming tools, often bridging native code with higher-level workflows. He frequently speaks on survivability of code, information-flow models, and scientific computing, reflecting an interest in long-term maintainability beyond day-to-day engineering. Known for pragmatic system design, he brings a musician’s sensitivity to timing and synchronization to problems of throughput and accuracy.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
1 year abroad organized by the Math department, Applied Mathematics, 1 year abroad organized by the Math department, Applied Mathematics at University of WarwickBS, Mathematics, BS, Mathematics at Florida Atlantic UniversityMS, Computational Neuroscience, MS, Computational Neuroscience at Boston University
python, clojure, javascript, c++, clojurescript, objective-c/ios, aws, java/android
Github Skills (5)
java-api6
api6
java5
data-driven1
aws1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
MissInterpret/onyx-native
Apr 2017 - May 2017
Contributions:62 commits, 57 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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