Heiner Tholen
Staff ML Backend Engineer at Aufwind Tholen GmbH & Co.KG
Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Top SchoolHeiner Tholen is a Staff ML Backend Engineer with 13 years of experience bridging physics research and production-grade SaaS and IoT systems. With a PhD in Elementary Particle Physics, he translated complex experimental techniques—like improving Higgs mass resolution—into disciplined data engineering and ML practices. At alcemy he progressed from full-stack and IoT lead to staff ML/backend engineering, building sensor-backed SaaS for construction and scaling core ML products. Heiner is also a renewable energy co-entrepreneur, operating wind and solar projects in NRW, reflecting a commitment to climate impact beyond code. Comfortable moving between research, product and ops, he brings rigorous experimental thinking to architecting robust ML pipelines and embedded solutions. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic scientist-engineer who turns noisy real-world data into actionable, deployable systems.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor rer. nat., Elementary Particle Physics, Doctor rer. nat., Elementary Particle Physics at University of HamburgMaster of Science (M.Sc.), Physics, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Physics at RWTH Aachen UniversityEuregio Kolleg Würselen
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Github Skills (33)
peer-to-peer9
libconfig9
filesystem9
synchronization9
p2p7
amazon-timestream6
go6
amazon-web-services6
python6
boto6
xbox5
bayesian5
pure-python5
computation4
mathematics4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
heinzK1X/pylibconfig2
Apr 2014 - Jun 2016
Contributions:5 commits, 3 PRs, 7 pushes in 2 years 1 month
python-librarypythonpure-pythonlibconfig
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