Nicolas Heist
Lead Software Engineer & Team Manager at Mannheim Business School
Walldorf, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
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Top SchoolNicolas Heist is a lead software engineer and team manager with 11 years of experience building scalable web and knowledge-graph-driven systems, currently leading R&D at metaphacts in Walldorf. He pairs academic rigor from a PhD candidacy in Knowledge Graphs & AI at the University of Mannheim with hands-on product engineering, having progressed from visiting researcher to lead engineer within metaphacts. His work focuses on machine learning techniques for constructing and extending large-scale knowledge graphs, and he has practical experience shipping competency-kg and other graph-backed applications. Nicolas also teaches Python and analytics at Mannheim Business School, reflecting a strong commitment to mentoring and developer enablement. Colleagues value his rare blend of research insight and production-first execution that bridges semantic web research and commercial knowledge-graph products.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Knowledge Graphs & AI, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Knowledge Graphs & AI at University of MannheimSemester Abroad Business Informatics, Semester Abroad Business Informatics at University of Miami
Github Skills (73)
semantic-web10
record-linkage10
thesaurus10
listings10
wikipedia10
knowledge-graph10
tiddlywiki10
dbpedia10
skos10
fuzzy-matching10
semantic-similarity9
wikidata9
semantic9
graph9
rdf9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
nheist/Cat2Ax
Jun 2019 - Jul 2020
A tool to uncover the semantics of Wikipedia categories by learning relation and type axioms to enrich the ontology of a Wikipedia-based knowledge graph
Contributions:2 releases, 42 commits, 37 pushes in 1 year 1 month
wikipedia-categoriesaxiomsdataminingknowledgelearning-by
nheist/CaLiGraph
Apr 2018 - Aug 2022
A Large Semantic Knowledge Graph from Wikipedia Categories and Listings
Contributions:9 releases, 1838 commits, 1 PR in 4 years 4 months
semantic-similarityknowledge-graphsemantic-webdbpediaontology-learning
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