Kai Wolf
CTO at StarterStopper Pty Ltd.
Wiesbaden, Hesse, Germany
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Top SchoolKai Wolf is a CTO and computer scientist (M.Sc.) with 15 years of experience specializing in computer vision, embedded and mobile systems, and machine learning. He has a track record of modernizing build systems, optimizing high-performance image processing pipelines for embedded and mobile targets, and shipping production-grade vision features across platforms. As a consultant and founder he has delivered solutions from AR/VR ML frameworks and 3D medical image analysis to automotive R&D tooling and gemstone defect detection prototypes. Kai contributes to high-profile open-source projects focused on performance—helping improve google/benchmark reporting and modernize simdjson memory safety—highlighting his emphasis on code quality and measurable performance. Based in Wiesbaden, Germany, he combines hands-on C/C++ and Kotlin development with systems thinking and mentoring, often translating research-grade algorithms into deployable products. An uncommon strength is his fusion of deep academic vision expertise with practical experience in build infrastructure and cross-platform deployment.
15 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Science, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Science at RheinMain University of Applied SciencesApprenticeship as insurance and finance clerk (IHK), Finance and Insurance, Apprenticeship as insurance and finance clerk (IHK), Finance and Insurance at HDI-Gerling Lebensversicherung AG
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Github Skills (21)
json10
benchmark10
c-language10
testing10
memory-management10
benchmarking10
simd10
cprogramming-language10
api-design9
code-optimization9
cpp8
avx7
csv7
opengl-es6
google-play6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
google/benchmark
Mar 2016 - Apr 2020
A microbenchmark support library
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 2 PRs, 11 comments in 4 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Kai primarily contributed to the `google/benchmark` repository by implementing features related to the output formatting of benchmark results. They added functionality to allow users to specify the time unit (nanoseconds or milliseconds) for displaying the benchmark execution time and also modified the console reporter and other reporters to support the new time unit. These changes involved modifying the benchmark code, the console reporter, JSON reporter and CSV reporter to integrate and utilize the time unit parameter, as well as include updates to benchmark API for the time unit.
cppbenchmarkingbazelsupport-librarymicrobenchmark
simdjson/simdjson
Feb 2019 - Feb 2019
Parsing gigabytes of JSON per second : used by Facebook/Meta Velox, the Node.js runtime, ClickHouse, WatermelonDB, Apache Doris, Milvus, StarRocks
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 2 comments in 3 days
Contributions summary:Kai primarily contributed to the `simdjson` repository by applying minor readability fixes and fixing old-style C-Casts across multiple files. They also updated the code to utilize `unique_ptr` instead of raw `new`/`delete` calls for memory management. These changes suggest a focus on code quality, maintainability, and modernization of the codebase within the context of a high-performance JSON parsing library.
node-graphsimdpythonavx512clang
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