Laurent Bindschaedler
Research Group Leader at Max Planck Institute for Software Systems
Switzerland
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Top SchoolLaurent Bindschaedler is a research group leader at MPI-SWS with 13 years of experience building systems for big data and machine learning, following a PhD at EPFL and a postdoc at MIT CSAIL. He combines deep academic rigor with practical system design, having moved from student assistant and startup co-founder roles into leading research that targets scalable, real-world data systems. His background spans academia, industry research internships (Nokia), and entrepreneurship, and he brings hands-on experience from both engineering and military IT service. Known playfully as a "blockchain astronaut," he explores distributed systems and emerging decentralized technologies alongside traditional ML/data challenges. Based in Switzerland, he bridges theory and practice, mentoring researchers while shipping robust prototypes that influence both research and applied deployments.
13 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bilingual Federal Maturity, Physics, Applied Mathematics, Bilingual Federal Maturity, Physics, Applied Mathematics at Collège André ChavanneDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at EPFL (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne)
English, French, German, Italian
Github Skills (33)
partitions10
rest-api8
security8
socket-io8
webhooks8
filemaker8
cms7
javascript7
full-stack7
orientdb7
python7
streaming6
graph6
community-management6
mariadb6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
bindscha/x-stream
Aug 2015 - Jan 2018
Contributions:4 commits, 2 PRs, 3 pushes in 2 years 5 months
streamingedgegraph-processinggraphpartitions
bindscha/chaos
Sep 2015 - Mar 2016
Contributions:6 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
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