Kai Wohlfahrt
Senior Principal Software Engineer at Proxima
Forchheim, Bavaria, Germany
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Top SchoolKai Wohlfahrt is a Senior Principal Software Engineer with 12 years of experience applying machine learning, bioinformatics, and image analysis to real-world problems across industry and research. He holds a PhD in Biochemistry from the University of Cambridge and has progressed from academic teaching and molecular biology research to leading ML teams at CHARM Therapeutics and product-focused roles at Twitter and Prodo. Known for diving deep into hard technical challenges, Kai blends experimental science rigor with production ML engineering to bridge discovery and deployment. Now at Proxima, he focuses on scaling ML-driven systems while mentoring engineers and continually learning new techniques. A detail that sets him apart is his background tutoring molecular biology small groups, which informs his clear technical communication and ability to teach complex concepts.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Biochemistry, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Biochemistry at University of Cambridge
Github Skills (200)
vim10
automation10
double10
command-line-tool10
serverless10
ledger10
vault10
vagrant10
markov10
hidden10
data-science10
nixpkgs10
virtualbox10
python10
nix10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
kwohlfahrt/pywt
May 2015 - Oct 2016
Contributions:4 PRs, 371 pushes, 60 branches in 1 year 4 months
waveletwavelet-transformpythontransformdiscrete
kwohlfahrt/etcdmon
Jul 2022 - Oct 2022
A script to monitor stacked k8s etcd instances, and remove them on node termination.
Contributions:54 commits, 25 PRs, 58 pushes in 2 months
instancesetcdmonitorstackedtermination
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