Heiko Dietze
Engineering Lead at StepStone
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolHeiko Dietze is an Engineering Lead in Berlin with 15 years of experience building semantic, ontology-aware systems and over 11 years as a Java developer. He has a strong research-to-production background spanning semantic search, knowledge representation, text mining, and high-performance distributed systems, with notable work on ontology tooling at Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. At StepStone he progressed from Java developer to team and engineering lead, applying academic rigor to product-scale search and retrieval problems. Heiko’s roots in HPC and parallelization inform efficient, scalable designs for semantic indexing and crawling, and he holds advanced degrees from Technische Universität Dresden. A pragmatic engineer who bridges deep ontology expertise with production engineering, he often turns formal semantic models into robust, high-throughput services.
15 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Doktor-Ing., Informatik, Doktor-Ing., Informatik at Technische Universität Dresden
German, English
Github Skills (45)
metadata10
geneontology10
yaml10
rdf10
owl-api10
converter9
ontology9
bioinformatics9
api9
openjdk9
documentation9
owl9
maven9
genes8
ontologies7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
geneontology/termgenie
Apr 2015 - May 2016
Contributions:10 commits, 4 PRs, 69 pushes in 1 year 1 month
obofoundrypatternclass-generationweb-application
hdietze/travis-jython-test
Nov 2015 - Nov 2015
Contributions:18 pushes, 1 branch in 14 days
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