Holger Stitz
Product Development Lead at datavisyn
Linz, Upper Austria
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Top SchoolHolger Stitz is a Product Development Lead with 12 years of experience building web-based visual analytics for pharma and biotech, currently leading product development at datavisyn from Linz, Austria. He combines deep expertise in large data analysis, interactive visualization (D3.js, TypeScript) and user-centered UI design with a PhD focus in Information Visualization. Holger has a track record of bridging research and production—leading R&D teams, delivering custom client solutions, and contributing to academic publications and teaching visualization and HCI courses. He mentors engineers, runs usability-driven prototyping workflows (Observable, Figma), and emphasizes turning complex biomedical data into actionable, user-friendly interfaces. An interesting facet: he balances hands-on frontend engineering with academic rigor, supervising students and integrating research insights into commercial visual analytics platforms.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Information Visualization, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Information Visualization at Johannes Kepler Universität LinzMaster of Science (M.Sc.), Interactive Media, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Interactive Media at University of Applied Sciences Upper Austria - Hagenberg CampusBachelor of Science - BS, Medieninformatik, Bachelor of Science - BS, Medieninformatik at Hochschule Harz
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Github Skills (200)
tabular10
chartjs-plugin10
matrix10
data-analytics10
heatmap10
apache10
jupyterlab-extension10
selector10
visualization10
python10
papaparse10
axis10
visual-analytics10
membership10
boxplot10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
Caleydo/taco_server
May 2016 - Jan 2020
The server part for comparing large tabular data using Phovea @JKU-ICG 💬 @thinkh
Contributions:4 releases, 98 commits, 25 PRs in 3 years 9 months
comparingjkutabular-dataphoveaicg
thinkh/test-github-templates
Sep 2019 - Apr 2022
Contributions:4 PRs, 11 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 7 months
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