Helge Pfeiffer
Associate Professor
Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark
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Top SchoolHelge Pfeiffer is an Associate Professor at the IT University of Copenhagen with 12 years of experience bridging academic research and industrial software practice in software engineering, quality metrics, and technical debt. He combines a PhD focused on multi-language development environments with hands-on experience as a software engineer and team lead at the Danish Meteorological Institute, where he worked on satellite data processing pipelines. Helge teaches and develops course material on DevOps, software evolution and maintenance, and contributes to open-source tooling—improving reliability and test coverage in projects like pydriller. His work emphasizes practical tool support for reducing developer errors across heterogeneous codebases, reflecting a rare blend of empirical research and pragmatic refactoring. Based in Copenhagen, he is known for translating complex academic insights into usable artifacts and courseware that directly impact industry practices.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Multi-language Development Environments, Software Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Multi-language Development Environments, Software Engineering at IT-Universitetet i KøbenhavnUniversité de LiègeDiplom-Informatiker, Very Good, Diplom-Informatiker, Very Good at Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
German, English, Danish, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (18)
git10
pytest10
python10
testing10
flask-ask10
computer-engineering10
flask10
develop9
git-repository9
package-repository9
hash-functions9
documentation8
python-black6
sonarcloud6
neo4j6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
itu-devops/lecture_notes
Jan 2020 - Jan 2023
Material for the elective "DevOps, Software Evolution and Software Maintenance" at IT University of Copenhagen, spring 2023
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 401 commits, 230 PRs in 3 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Helge added the lecture notes, which included a welcome message and details about the course. They also modified the existing code to include links to existing code for better understanding and fixed wrong file paths for the given examples. Moreover, the user refactored the source code for the provided application.
evolutiondevopsit-university-of-copenhagensoftware-maintenancespring
ishepard/pydriller
Apr 2021 - Jun 2021
Python Framework to analyse Git repositories
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:2 reviews, 10 commits, 5 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Helge primarily focused on improving the codebase's reliability and maintainability by adding unittests and refactoring existing code. They implemented and fixed hash functions within the domain models. Further, the user addressed an exception related to the repeated clone_to functionality. Their contributions demonstrate a focus on testing and core functionality within the Python framework.
repositoriespythonmining-software-repositoriesmsrpython3
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