Julius Krumbiegel
Senior Product Engineer at PumasAI
Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolJulius Krumbiegel is a Senior Product Engineer with nine years of experience bridging research-driven thinking and product-grade engineering, currently building at PumasAI in Germany. His background blends cognitive science and neuropsychology (M.Sc., Humboldt) with hands-on software research roles at Apple and Oculus, giving him a disciplined, human-centered approach to complex systems. At PumasAI he progressed from Product Engineer to Senior Product Engineer, shipping features that translate scientific models into reliable products. Julius contributes to open-source scientific visualization—refactoring Makie.jl’s layout engine—demonstrating attention to maintainable, backend improvements in a widely used Julia plotting library. He excels at simplifying intricate codepaths and creating helper abstractions that make libraries easier for downstream users to extend. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic engineer who brings academic rigor to production challenges.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.), Mind and Brain, Track Brain (Cognitive Science and Neuropsychology), Master of Science (M.Sc.), Mind and Brain, Track Brain (Cognitive Science and Neuropsychology) at Humboldt-Universität zu BerlinBachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Psychologie, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Psychologie at Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
Github Skills (6)
julia10
architecture8
performance-optimization8
architectures8
data-structure7
data-structures7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
MakieOrg/Makie.jl
Nov 2019 - Jan 2023
Interactive data visualizations and plotting in Julia
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 releases, 264 reviews, 1578 commits in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Julius's commits primarily focus on refactoring and improving the `layout_engine.jl` file within the `makieorg/makie.jl` repository. Their work includes simplifying and refactoring code related to column/row gaps and the determination of width and height, as well as adding helper functions for other plot elements. These contributions show a dedication to improving the structural organization of the library.
julia-languagegpuvisualizationsdata-visualizationplotting
jkrumbiegel/jkrumbiegel.github.io
Aug 2022 - Nov 2022
Contributions:44 commits, 1 PR, 36 pushes in 3 months
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