Jörn-philipp Lies
Lead Engineer at #zeroG
Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolJörn-philipp Lies is a Lead Engineer with 14 years of experience building ML-powered software for healthcare, currently leading engineering at zeroG from Frankfurt. He combines deep academic training—a PhD from Tübingen and research experience at the Max Planck Society—with hands-on data and machine learning engineering to deliver practical products like eye2you that accelerate affordable retina screening. His work spans model development, productization, and clear technical communication, evidenced by contribution to popular educational Python lesson materials to make complex concepts accessible. Known for translating research-grade AI into reliable clinical tools, he focuses on reducing avoidable vision loss through scalable, user-centric solutions. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who pairs scientific rigor with product empathy to move innovations into real-world impact.
14 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) at Max Planck SocietyDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) at Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen / University of TuebingenDiploma, Diploma at Technische Universität Darmstadt / TU Darmstadtstate-certified chemical-technical assistant, state-certified chemical-technical assistant at Odenwaldschule Ober-Hambach
Github Skills (5)
notebook10
jupyter-notebook10
ipython10
python10
documentation10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
swcarpentry/DEPRECATED-bc
Oct 2013 - Oct 2013
DEPRECATED: This repository is now frozen - please see individual lesson repositories.
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:5 commits in 1 day
Contributions summary:Jörn-philipp primarily contributed to the documentation of a Python lesson on functions, focusing on their usage and best practices. Their work involved adding real-life examples, explaining function stacks, and detailing how default parameters should be ordered. Additionally, the user corrected several typos in the lesson content and formatted variable names, improving the overall readability and clarity of the documentation.
repositoriesindividualfrozen
phillies/fooracle
May 2018 - Jun 2024
Contributions:9 pushes, 3 branches in 6 years 1 month
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