Halfdan Rump
AI Software Engineer at ExaWizards Inc.
Kyoto, Japan
Summary
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Top SchoolHalfdan Rump is an AI software engineer and seasoned Python developer with 13 years of experience building data engineering back-ends, analytics, and cloud-native infrastructure. He combines hands-on expertise across the full stack—from networking and databases to application development—with a modern DevOps approach using AWS, CI/CD, and Terraform. At ExaWizards he develops AI agents and solutions, building on senior data engineering and DevOps roles where he automated testing, deployment, and scaling on ECS. He co-founded a crypto data startup focused on AI-driven trading and fraud detection, reflecting both entrepreneurial drive and quantitative modeling skills from an M.Sc. in multi-agent financial market simulation. Comfortable working fully remote from Kyoto, he contributes to open-source Python tooling too, notably enhancing folium with time-series GeoJSON visualization. Pragmatic and strategic, he’s skilled at choosing technologies that balance delivery speed, scalability, and operational reliability.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.), Multi-agent simulation of financial markets, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Multi-agent simulation of financial markets at Waseda UniversityUniversity of TokyoBachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer and Information Sciences, General, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer and Information Sciences, General at Technical University of Denmark
Danish, Japanese, English
Github Skills (11)
data-visualizations10
folium10
maps10
time-series10
data-visualisation10
data-visualization10
geojson10
python10
data-analysis10
javascript9
data-science8
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
python-visualization/folium
Jun 2017 - Oct 2017
Python Data. Leaflet.js Maps.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:31 commits, 1 PR, 14 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Halfdan primarily focused on enhancing the functionality and user experience of the `folium` library, a Python library for data visualization on interactive maps. They implemented a time slider feature for the GeoJson plugin, allowing users to visualize time-series data. The user also made code refactoring and bug fixes within the map and features modules, demonstrating their engagement with the library's core components and plugins.
js-mapsleafletleaflet-jspythondata-science
Hackerfarm/techrice
Nov 2015 - Apr 2016
Contributions:149 commits, 50 pushes, 4 branches in 4 months
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