Pay Giesselmann
Research Software Engineer at Deutsches Klimarechenzentrum (DKRZ; German Climate Computing Center)
Hamburg, Germany
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Top SchoolPay Giesselmann is a research software engineer based in Hamburg with nine years of experience building scientific and signal-processing software, currently developing high-performance tools at the German Climate Computing Center. Trained as an electrical engineer with a Dr. rer. nat. in bioinformatics, he blends hardware-aware optimization from DSP and image-processing projects with data-analysis and sequencing signal processing in Python and R. His background spans academic research (a PhD in genome regulation) and industry-grade engineering, including low-level C++ and DSP-assembler optimization for real-time sensor applications. Known for turning computationally intensive scientific problems into efficient, production-ready code, he brings a rare mix of electrical engineering rigor and bioinformatics domain knowledge to large-scale research computing.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Dr. rer. nat., Bioinformatics, Dr. rer. nat., Bioinformatics at Freie Universität BerlinMaster of Engineering - MEng, Elektrische Technologien, Master of Engineering - MEng, Elektrische Technologien at Fachhochschule Kiel
Github Skills (40)
docker10
snakemake10
singularity10
genome-assembly10
pipeline10
sequencing10
bioinformatics10
genomics10
next-generation-sequencing9
rna-seq9
backend8
immunology8
nextflow8
reproducible-research8
variants8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
giesselmann/cc-backend
Nov 2022 - Feb 2025
Backend for ClusterCockpit Monitoring Framework
Contributions:19 pushes, 33 branches in 2 years 3 months
backendkubernetesprometheusmonitoring-frameworkmonitoring
giesselmann/STRique
Mar 2018 - Mar 2021
Contributions:7 releases, 137 commits, 85 pushes in 3 years
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