Michael Dorner
Professor at Technische Hochschule Nürnberg Georg Simon Ohm
Germany
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Top SchoolMichael Dorner is a professor and software engineer with 12 years of hands-on experience blending academic research and entrepreneurial product building. Based in Germany, he co-founded Kolabri in 2022 while completing a PhD at Blekinge Tekniska Högskola, demonstrating a commitment to both deep technical inquiry and real-world impact. His development work spans performance-focused back-end engineering—evidenced by substantive OpenCL kernel optimizations and benchmarking contributions to the CONRAD repository—alongside system design improvements and rigorous test fixes. At Technische Hochschule Nürnberg Georg Simon Ohm he brings industry-grade practice into teaching and research, translating low-level optimization techniques for broader applications. Known for a pragmatic, improvement-driven approach (git push origin main --force hints at decisive iteration), he combines academic rigor with startup velocity. Colleagues can expect a technically precise, performance-minded leader who values continuous improvement.
12 years of coding experience
PhD, PhD at Blekinge Tekniska HögskolaBachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) at Technische Hochschule Nürnberg Georg Simon OhmBachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) at Örebro UniversityAllgemeine Hochschulreife, Allgemeine Hochschulreife at Ostendorfer-Gymnasium NeumarktMaster of Science (M.Sc.), Master of Science (M.Sc.) at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
German, English, Swedish
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Github Skills (29)
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Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
akmaier/CONRAD
Feb 2015 - Mar 2015
CONRAD Repository
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 6 PRs in 18 days
Contributions summary:Michael primarily focused on enhancing the OpenCLGridOperators class within the CONRAD repository. Their work involved significant modifications to OpenCL kernels, including improvements to local memory usage and the addition of a benchmark utility. They fixed singleton implementations and improved the class design for better performance. Further, the user has added multiple OpenCL kernels to provide functionalities like dot product, standard deviation, and weighted SSD, and also fixed associated JUnit tests.
michaeldorner/CEP-Systems
May 2016 - Apr 2022
An overview of Complex Event Processing Systems
Contributions:43 commits, 42 pushes, 2 branches in 6 years
stream-processingdataflowevent-processingcomplex-event-processing
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