Michael Helmling
Staff Engineer at DeepL
Greater Kaiserslautern Area Germany
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Top SchoolMichael Helmling is a Staff Engineer with 16 years of experience, currently shaping engineering work at DeepL from the Greater Kaiserslautern area in Germany. With a strong academic foundation in mathematics (Diplom-Mathematiker) and doctoral studies at Universität Koblenz-Landau, he brings rigorous analytical thinking to large-scale software problems. He contributes to open-source projects like UnitsNet, improving build systems and cross-platform serialization to make numerical software more reliable across .NET runtimes. Known for backend-focused craftsmanship, Michael blends deep technical modernization (package and target upgrades, test automation) with pragmatic problem solving that quietly improves developer and runtime experience.
16 years of coding experience
Promotion, Promotion at Universität Koblenz-LandauDiplom-Mathematiker, Diplom-Mathematiker at Technische Universität Kaiserslautern
German, English
Github Skills (10)
net10
nuget10
asp-net10
dotnet10
data-serialization10
csharp10
dotnet-core10
serialization10
units-of-measurement9
unit-testing9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
angularsen/UnitsNet
May 2017 - May 2017
Makes life working with units of measurement just a little bit better.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 2 PRs, 10 comments in 3 days
Contributions summary:Michael primarily focused on enhancing the build process and project structure for the UnitsNet library. They added NuGet package information, renamed project files, and updated project targets to support .NET Standard 1.4. Furthermore, the user addressed platform-specific serialization issues and added a .NET Core project for serialization tests, improving the library's cross-platform compatibility and testing coverage. Finally, the user updated the library's version.
unit-converterunitmeasurementbitmeasure
supermihi/bibtexvcs
Jul 2013 - Dec 2015
Contributions:93 commits, 28 pushes, 10 tags in 2 years 4 months
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