Nikolas Göbel
Computer Scientist at RelationalAI
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Top SchoolNikolas Göbel is a computer scientist with 13 years of engineering and consulting experience, currently building real-time question-answering systems and polished web frontends at RelationalAI in Zurich. He combines deep systems expertise—evidenced by substantial backend contributions to the Rust timely-dataflow project improving sequencing, scheduling, and performance—with product-minded frontend work that makes complex models usable. As co-founder and engineering partner at Clockworks he honed full-stack, startup-grade delivery and a taste for computational counterculture reflected in his playful focus on "recreational semantics." Trained at ETH Zürich (MSc) and a disciplined early achiever academically, he brings both research rigor and pragmatic optimization to production systems.
13 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule ZürichAbitur, 1.2, 1.2, Abitur, 1.2, 1.2 at Heinrich-von-Gagern GymnasiumMaster of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at ETH Zürich
German, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (9)
rust10
dataflow-programming10
dataflow10
concurrency10
scheduler9
sched9
scheduling9
algorithms9
caffe6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
TimelyDataflow/timely-dataflow
Jan 2019 - Apr 2019
A modular implementation of timely dataflow in Rust
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 5 PRs, 31 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Nikolas primarily contributed to the `timely-dataflow` repository, focusing on enhancements to the `sequence` module. Their work involved refactoring code, improving scheduling mechanisms, and introducing a preloaded queue for the sequencer. They also addressed issues related to event-driven architecture and made efforts to optimize performance and maintain compatibility. Additionally, the user added the functionality to insert loggers using `logging::Registry::insert_logger`.
rusttimelydataflowmodular
comnik/thesis
Oct 2018 - May 2019
Contributions:139 commits, 3 pushes in 6 months
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