Josef Lechner is a process engineer with 11 years of experience combining a chemical and mechanical engineering background with hands-on semiconductor dry-etch recipe development and R2R process control at ams OSRAM. He previously managed applications and global training at Anton Paar, where he translated analytical chemistry expertise into sales strategies, customer training and remote webinars. Skilled in communication, problem solving and cross-functional collaboration, he brings practical lab experience from academic research and industry internships, including contributions to open-source speech recognition integration work. Based in Graz, Austria, Josef balances technical rigor with a talent for teaching others and a passion for outdoor pursuits that keeps his approach grounded and team-focused.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Diplom-Ingenieur (Dipl.Ing.), Chemical and Pharmaceutical Engineering, Diplom-Ingenieur (Dipl.Ing.), Chemical and Pharmaceutical Engineering at Technische Universität Graz
Matura, Mechanical Engineering, ausgezeichneter Erfolg, Matura, Mechanical Engineering, ausgezeichneter Erfolg at HTBLuVA Salzburg
Speech recognition module for Python, supporting several engines and APIs, online and offline.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:5 commits, 9 PRs, 53 comments in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Josef primarily contributed to the speech_recognition module, enhancing its functionality and improving its integration with the API. They added the `session_id` parameter to the API.ai integration, improving the integration. The user also fixed an API version issue and a typo in a comment and removed duplicate code.
Contributions:2 releases, 40 commits, 39 pushes in 6 years
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Josef Lechner - Process Engineer Dry Etch at ams OSRAM