Mark Bangert
Team Lead at HMS
Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
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Top SchoolMark Bangert is a team lead and seasoned software engineer with 11 years of experience building cloud-native solutions for data science and AI at HMS Analytical Software in Heidelberg. With a background in physics (Dr. rer. nat.) and medical physics training at Harvard, he bridges rigorous research with pragmatic engineering, having led projects and teams since his DKFZ research scientist days. He contributes to open-source medical software—most notably improving dose calculation and image-processing performance in the matRad radiation treatment planning system—demonstrating domain expertise in particle dose algorithms and geometry-aware refactors. At HMS he has progressed from engineer to project lead and now team lead, combining hands-on backend development, performance optimization, and technical leadership. Colleagues rely on him to translate complex scientific requirements into robust cloud architectures that serve AI and analytics workloads.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Dr. rer. nat, Physik, Dr. rer. nat, Physik at Heidelberg UniversityMedical Physics, Medical Physics at Harvard UniversityMaster, Physik, Master, Physik at Umeå University
German, English, French, Swedish
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Github Skills (15)
raytracing10
ray10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
biomedical10
rad10
image-processing10
radiology10
radiation10
computational-physics9
computational-geometry9
bdd6
karate6
selenium6
solr6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
e0404/matRad
Jan 2015 - Dec 2020
An open source multi-modality radiation treatment planning sytem developed by e0404 @ DKFZ
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Domain-Specific Engineer
Back-end Developer & Domain-Specific EngineerContributions:1 release, 7 reviews, 616 commits in 5 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Mark contributed to the matRad repository, which focuses on multi-modality radiation treatment planning, by working on the core functionality of dose calculation and image processing. They implemented algorithms for particle dose calculation, specifically photon dose calculation, and made crucial bug fixes related to ray tracing and geometry, impacting the accuracy of dose computations. Furthermore, they refactored aspects of the dose calculation pipeline and the structure definition for better performance and compatibility with various plan parameters, demonstrating their proficiency in the core domain of the project. Their contributions include refactoring and performance optimizations.
multi-sourceneuroimagingparticle-therapybrain-computer-interfacematlab
e0404/photonPencilBeamKernelCalc
Sep 2018 - Mar 2020
Set of Matlab functions computing the convolution kernels for a singular-value-decomposed pencil beam dose calculation algorithm
Contributions:16 commits, 2 PRs, 13 pushes in 1 year 5 months
matlab-functionspencildosesingularmatlab
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