Nico Balbach
Full Stack Developer at Siemens
Nuremberg, Bavaria, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolNico Balbach is a Full Stack Developer with nine years of experience combining academic research in computer vision and OCR with practical enterprise software delivery. He holds an MS in Computer Science from the University of Würzburg and spent much of his early career building open-source tools for layout analysis and OCR (LAREX, Variance-Viewer, OCR4all) while mentoring students. In industry he’s driven full-stack projects from front-end UX to backend, database and hosting operations at adesso and now Siemens, and has experience modernizing CRMs, medical tooling, and AI workflows. Known for moving research prototypes into production, he also runs hiring and mentoring programs and evaluates senior engineering candidates. Based in Nuremberg, he combines a researcher’s rigor with pragmatic engineering discipline and a continuous curiosity—he’s an avid hobby artist, which informs his eye for UI and layout challenges.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at The Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg
English, German
Github Skills (24)
text-comparison10
extraction10
ocr-recognition10
region10
classifier9
ocr9
optical-character-recognition9
cli8
storage8
maven-dependency8
python-scripts7
golang7
java-bindings7
python7
command-line6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
OCR4all/LAREX
Apr 2017 - Oct 2019
A semi-automatic open-source tool for Layout Analysis and Region EXtraction on early printed books.
Contributions:486 commits, 94 PRs, 359 pushes in 2 years 6 months
extractionsemi-automaticsemilayoutregion
cs6-uniwue/Variance-Viewer
Sep 2018 - Oct 2019
Automatic text comparison with an extendable variance classifier
Contributions:1 release, 88 commits, 4 PRs in 1 year 1 month
classifiertext-comparison
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