Kai Schlamp
Teamleiter Software-Engineering at CCIBonn.ai
Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Summary
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RockstarKai Schlamp is a software engineering team lead and practicing senior physician based in Heidelberg, combining 11 years of technical and clinical experience to build impactful medical software. He leads engineering at CCIBonn.ai while continuing clinical leadership as Oberarzt at the Thoraxklinik, uniquely bridging product, implementation, and real-world healthcare needs. A hands-on contributor to notable open-source projects like cornerstone (medical imaging) and Chevrotain (JavaScript parser toolkit), he brings front-end finesse, TypeScript expertise, and robust parsing/error-recovery know-how to complex systems. Kai’s work often targets usability and reliability—resizing and UI refinements in image viewers and improved token recovery in parsers—reflecting a pragmatic focus on maintainability and clinical applicability.
11 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (36)
javascript10
parser10
testing10
parsec10
typescript10
ui-design10
uid10
parsing10
front-end-development10
parse10
typescript-types10
medical-imaging10
typescripts10
cornerstone10
text-parsing10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
cornerstonejs/cornerstone
Jan 2018 - Mar 2018
JavaScript library to display interactive medical images including but not limited to DICOM
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 8 PRs, 16 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Kai primarily focused on improving the user interface and functionality of the cornerstonejs library. They implemented changes to the canvas element, addressed resizing issues to rescale automatically, and refactored resize functions. Additionally, the user added tests for the lookupTable.js and fixed style errors, contributing to code quality and maintainability.
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cornerstonejs/cornerstoneTools
Jan 2018 - Jun 2018
A framework for tools built on top of Cornerstone.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 5 PRs, 8 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Kai primarily contributed to the front-end aspects of the `cornerstonetools` repository. Their commits focused on updating and building the distribution files, specifically the `cornerstoneTools.min.js` file. They implemented fixes related to tool functionality and made improvements to the user interface by making overlays unselectable. Additionally, they improved the rotate tool by improving the calculation of the center point for rotation.
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