Ivars Karpics
Software Engineer at European XFEL
Hamburg, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolIvars Karpics is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building research-focused and industrial software, currently developing systems at European XFEL in Hamburg. He combines strong foundations in C++ and Python with a PhD-level background in computer control and decision support systems, applying academic rigor to practical engineering problems. His career spans scientific institutions (EMBL, Riga Technical University) and industrial automation (Arcus Elektronika), giving him deep exposure to protocols like Modbus and IEC60870 and to SCADA/HMI/OPC systems. Ivars is comfortable bridging research and production: implementing reproducible scientific software while integrating hardware and control-layer protocols. Colleagues rely on him for robust, well-documented solutions and for translating complex topological and control-theory concepts into working code. Based in Hamburg, he brings both long-term research perspective and hands-on systems integration experience that few engineers in his domain combine.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Phd, Computer control systems, decision support systems, Phd, Computer control systems, decision support systems at Rīgas Tehniskā universitāte (Riga Technical University)
Latvian, Russian, English, German
Github Skills (22)
qt10
python10
nodejs10
backend10
java9
vimba-sdk9
jwt8
sqlalchemy8
allied-vision7
fastapi7
startup-script7
javascript6
frontend5
camera5
dll5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
mxcube/BlissFramework
Jan 2015 - Jun 2017
Contributions:20 PRs, 100 pushes, 20 branches in 2 years 5 months
front-endqt5graphics
IvarsKarpics/mxcube
Nov 2015 - Oct 2020
Contributions:13 PRs, 133 pushes, 8 branches in 5 years
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