Gregor Kappler
Chief Technology Officer at MealScan
Augsburg, Bavaria, Germany
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Top SchoolGregor Kappler is a CTO and founder with over a decade of hands-on experience translating psychometrics and probabilistic research into scalable, production-grade software and AI-driven products. He combines a PhD-level background in psychology and math with postdoctoral research, producing practical solutions from fast measurement-search algorithms to GDPR-compliant cloud systems and invoice/receipt recognition. At MealScan he leads architecture, AI models and integrations while independently developing a next-generation measurement and graph-data platform (Elm UIs, Julia packages) through FilingForest. Known as a persuasive teacher and empathetic leader, he excels at turning academic insights into commercial products and mentoring teams to grow beyond technical limits. Based in Augsburg, Germany, he blends rigorous statistical thinking with a knack for elegant, efficient engineering choices that favor long-term scalability.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
ph.D., Psychology,Math, ph.D., Psychology,Math at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
English, German
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Github Skills (48)
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parser-generator10
juliadb10
julia10
analytical9
science9
causal8
metalsmith8
machine-learning8
numerical7
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Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
gkappler/Tries.jl
Nov 2019 - Sep 2020
Contributions:40 commits, 38 pushes, 2 branches in 10 months
gkappler/WikitextParser.jl
Oct 2019 - Aug 2020
A CombinedParser for Wikitext markup in pure Julia.
Contributions:114 commits, 8 PRs, 8 pushes in 10 months
wikitextmarkupjulia
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