Niels Pardon
Senior Research Software Engineer, IBM Software Innovation Lab
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolNiels Pardon is a senior research software engineer based in Zurich with 17 years of experience designing and delivering data-driven enterprise software across hybrid cloud, analytics and AI domains. At IBM he has moved between hands-on engineering, architecture and product ownership—leading international teams, defining roadmaps for data ingestion and orchestration used by 100,000+ users, and turning research prototypes into demonstrable capabilities. He pairs backend engineering depth (notably contributions to the TYPO3 CMS backend and templating layers) with a strong track record in analytics, NLP-driven sales applications and recommender systems. Comfortable across roles from product owner to research engineer, he thrives on bridging stakeholder strategy and technical execution to ship practical, production-ready solutions.
17 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Business Information Systems, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Business Information Systems at Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University (DHBW)Bachelor of Arts Business Information Systems, Bachelor of Arts Business Information Systems at The Open University
English, German
Github Skills (7)
fluid10
php10
extbase10
typo310
content-management9
cms9
content-management-system9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
TYPO3/typo3
Apr 2009 - Apr 2009
The TYPO3 Core - Enterprise Content Management System. Synchronized mirror of https://review.typo3.org/q/project:Packages/TYPO3.CMS
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits in 6 days
Contributions summary:Niels primarily contributed to the backend functionality of the TYPO3 CMS, specifically focusing on enhancements within the Fluid templating engine and the Extbase framework. Their commits involved the addition of new view helpers for features like TypoScript parsing and standard wrapping, and the correction of functional bugs in existing components such as the TranslateViewHelper. Additionally, the user removed call-time pass-by-references in the ObjectRelationalMapper, improving the codebase quality.
cmsmanagement-systemphpsynchronizedtypo3-cms
nielspardon/dbt-core
Feb 2023 - May 2024
dbt enables data analysts and engineers to transform their data using the same practices that software engineers use to build applications.
Contributions:4 releases, 28 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 3 months
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