Mirko Palmer
Senior Software Engineer at Lawo
Pforzheim, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolMirko Palmer is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience combining systems research and production-grade engineering, currently driving product development at Lawo. He holds a PhD in computer science focused on end-to-end video streaming (VOXEL), where he applied a cross-layer approach to jointly optimize transport and application-layer decisions for improved user QoE. Comfortable from low-level assembly (he once implemented a UDP/IP stack on an 8-bit microcontroller) to modern C++, C and Python codebases and containerized deployments, Mirko also maintains his own server infrastructure and a well-curated dotfiles repository. He brings deep expertise in video codecs, quality metrics and transport protocols, and a practical bent for turning research insights into deployable systems. Based in Pforzheim, Germany, he enjoys electronics tinkering and prefers outsourcing email server maintenance.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, 1.7, Master's degree, Computer Science, 1.7 at Technische Universität BerlinDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, magna cum laude, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, magna cum laude at Universität des Saarlandes
Github Skills (105)
vim10
text-editor10
nim-language10
logic9
vnc-client9
vim-plugin9
circuit9
raspberry9
neovim9
cross-platform9
tmux9
fpga8
ansible8
linux-kernel8
python8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
derbroti/vim
Feb 2022 - Mar 2024
The official Vim repository
Contributions:11 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 2 months
vim-pluginneovimvim
derbroti/vim-airline
Feb 2022 - Feb 2024
lean & mean status/tabline for vim that's light as air
Contributions:13 pushes in 2 years
nim-langvimlighttablinevim-plugin
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