Michael Rapp
Software Engineer at Insiders Technologies GmbH
Rhein-Neckar Metropolitan Region Germany
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Top SchoolMichael Rapp is a software engineer with 12 years of experience who combines academic rigor—a Ph.D. in computer science—with hands-on product development across research labs and industry in the Rhein-Neckar region. He has worked at universities and companies on AI/ML and knowledge engineering, and now contributes to commercial engineering at Insiders Technologies while maintaining an open-source focus on Linux and Android tooling. His contributions include performance-focused back-end enhancements to user-facing components, exemplified by optimizing a Chrome-like tab switcher with caching and preview-loading improvements. Comfortable bridging research and production, he brings a pragmatic approach to building efficient, maintainable systems and a penchant for squeezing latency out of real-world interfaces.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science at University of Applied Sciences KarlsruheMaster of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Science, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Science at Technical University Darmstadt
German, English, French
Github Skills (3)
java10
javas10
performance-optimization10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
michael-rapp/ChromeLikeTabSwitcher
Nov 2016 - Feb 2020
Provides a tab switcher similar to the one, which is used in Google Chrome on Android
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:30 releases, 1351 commits, 2 PRs in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Michael contributed to the development of the Chrome-like tab switcher by modifying the code related to loading tab previews and improving performance. The commits demonstrate work on caching mechanisms (LruCache) and optimizing the display of the tab previews. The changes are primarily focused on improving the overall performance of the tab switcher component.
similarandroidchromeswitchergoogle-chrome
michael-rapp/AndroidMaterialDialog
Nov 2014 - Feb 2020
Contributions:61 releases, 851 commits, 1 PR in 5 years 3 months
materialandroiddialogsstyledmaterial-design
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