Summary
Myroslav Zapukhlyak is a Senior Data Manager and DPO based in Heidelberg who blends 3+ years of AI engineering and cloud-native data architecture with over a decade of deep domain expertise in computational biology, genomics, and biophysics. He designs agentic LLM/VLM-powered workflows and scalable AWS/Kubernetes pipelines for medical and scientific applications while embedding GDPR and ISO-aligned data governance into production systems. His background includes 15+ years of theoretical and computational physics research—culminating in a PhD with top grades—which informs a rigorous, simulation-driven approach to software and algorithm design. Comfortable across languages from Python and R to C++ and Fortran, he bridges high-performance computing, numerical modeling, and bioinformatics at scale. Unusually, he pairs hands-on scientific software development with formal responsibilities as a data protection officer and independent evaluator for EU R&I projects, giving him both technical depth and regulatory perspective.
11 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree in Physics (master diploma with honours), Solid State Physics, excellent, Master's degree in Physics (master diploma with honours), Solid State Physics, excellent at Precarpathian National Vasyl Stefanyk University, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine
PhD, Theoretical Physics, summa cum laude, PhD, Theoretical Physics, summa cum laude at Clausthal University of Technology, Clausthal, Germany
English, German, Polish, Russian, Ukrainian