Norman Worku
Optical Designer at tooz technologies GmbH
Aalen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
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Top SchoolNorman Worku is an optical designer with a PhD and over ten years’ experience specializing in AR/VR eyewear at tooz technologies (ZEISS Group), where he develops compact, prescription-capable smart glasses and solves stray-light and molding-related performance issues. He combines deep academic expertise in ultrashort pulse propagation and Gaussian pulsed beam decomposition with hands-on lens and physical optics design using Code V, Zemax OpticStudio, Speos and VirtualLab. Norman has a strong track record of building custom high-performance simulation tools in MATLAB/C++ with OpenMP for parallel computation, enabling faster, production-relevant analysis. Comfortable bridging research and product teams, he routinely collaborates with mechanical, polymer and coating engineers to industrialize injection-molded optical engines. A former teaching and mentoring assistant in advanced lens design and aberration theory, he brings both rigorous theoretical grounding and practical lab experience to optical system development.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.) Level Courses, Computer Engineering, CGPA = 3.94 (where 4.0 is the excellent), Master of Science (M.Sc.) Level Courses, Computer Engineering, CGPA = 3.94 (where 4.0 is the excellent) at Addis Ababa UniversityDr. Ing., Optics and Photonics, Magna cum laude (with great praise), Dr. Ing., Optics and Photonics, Magna cum laude (with great praise) at Friedrich Schiller University JenaMaster of Science (M.Sc.), Photonics (Optical System Design and Simulation), CGPA = 1.3 (where 1.0 is excellent), Master of Science (M.Sc.), Photonics (Optical System Design and Simulation), CGPA = 1.3 (where 1.0 is excellent) at Friedrich Schiller University Jena (Abbe School of Photonics)Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Electrical and Computer Engineering, 3.94 (where 4.0 is the excellent), Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Electrical and Computer Engineering, 3.94 (where 4.0 is the excellent) at Hawassa University
german (level a2.2), English, Amharic
Github Skills (1)
javascript6
Github contributions (5)
IAPJena/ProjectOne
Aug 2015 - Mar 2016
Contributions:97 commits, 1 PR, 56 pushes in 7 months
javascript
normgirm/addisland_locator
Mar 2025 - Mar 2025
Contributions:15 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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