Johannes Hellrich
Senior Software Engineer Team Lead at semvox GmbH
Nuremberg, Bavaria, Germany
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Top SchoolJohannes Hellrich is a Senior Software Engineer and Team Lead with 11 years’ experience merging academic NLP expertise and industry-grade engineering to build proactive voice assistants for the automotive sector. With a PhD in Computational Linguistics and a background in word-embedding research and medical language analysis, he brings deep ML/NLP fluency into production contexts using Java, Python and platform-specific stacks like geni:OS. At semvox he progressed from Product Owner and Domain Architect to team lead, driving SAFe processes while ensuring ASPICE-compliant delivery and coaching team members. He is an attentive maintainer in open-source, improving pedagogy and test reliability in the popular Scala Exercises standard library. Based in Nuremberg, Johannes combines rigorous research habits with pragmatic system design and a knack for clarifying complex examples for both engineers and learners.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Promotion Computerlinguistik, Promotion Computerlinguistik at Friedrich Schiller University JenaBachelor of Arts (B.A.) Germanistische Philologie, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Germanistische Philologie at University of Regensburg
German, English
Github Skills (5)
pattern-matching10
scala10
maps9
functional-programming9
unit-testing8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
scala-exercises/exercises-stdlib
Mar 2017 - Mar 2017
Scala Exercises' lessons for the standard library
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 6 PRs, 4 comments in 19 days
Contributions summary:Johannes primarily focused on improving and refining existing code within the Scala Exercises standard library project. Their contributions involved removing redundant code elements, correcting minor errors, and enhancing the clarity of examples. Key changes include modifications to code snippets within "Objects," "HigherOrderFunctions," "PatternMatching" and "Maps" lessons, improving their accuracy and readability. Furthermore, the user corrected failing tests to ensure the exercises function as intended, demonstrating a good understanding of the project's structure.
scala
JULIELab/JeSemE
Jan 2017 - Apr 2021
Jena Semantic Explorer
Contributions:2 releases, 223 commits, 5 PRs in 4 years 4 months
jenanatural-language-processingdigital-humanitiesdiachronic
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