Philipp Fischbeck
Software Engineer at Snowflake
Potsdam, Brandenburg, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolPhilipp Fischbeck is a software engineer with 12 years of experience who moved from algorithm engineering and academic research into database and backend development at Snowflake. He holds advanced degrees from the Hasso Plattner Institute, including PhD-level work in algorithm engineering, and has built production-ready systems using Python, FastAPI and Vue.js while teaching and developing AI-focused learning platforms. Philipp contributes to well-known open-source projects—improving localization for Mozilla initiatives and enhancing performance and UX in projects like Mealie and AnySoftKeyboard—demonstrating a blend of backend, frontend and mobile expertise. His background in theoretical CS informs a pragmatic approach to refactoring and performance tuning, such as optimizing gesture-typing path generation and migrating Django projects to modern versions. Comfortable working across the stack, he pairs strong type-safety and composition-API practices on the frontend with robust dependency and compatibility work on the backend. Based in Potsdam, he brings a researcher’s rigor to production engineering and a knack for improving developer and user-facing systems quietly but effectively.
12 years of coding experience
Software Engineering, Software Engineering at Blekinge Tekniska HögskolaAbitur, 1.1, Abitur, 1.1 at Hansa-Gymnasium StralsundDoktor (Ph.D.), Algorithm Engineering / Theoretische Informatik, Doktor (Ph.D.), Algorithm Engineering / Theoretische Informatik at Hasso Plattner Institute
German, English, Swedish
Github Skills (37)
vue-composition-api10
dependency-management10
composition10
mobile-development10
python10
django10
typescript10
internationalization10
nuxt10
android-development10
java10
javas10
localization10
firefox10
api10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
mealie-recipes/mealie
Jan 2022 - Jan 2023
Mealie is a self hosted recipe manager and meal planner with a RestAPI backend and a reactive frontend application built in Vue for a pleasant user experience for the whole family. Easily add recipes into your database by providing the url and mealie will automatically import the relevant data or add a family recipe with the UI editor
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1 review, 20 commits, 21 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Philipp contributed to both the frontend and backend of the Mealie recipe manager. They implemented features such as date range selection and re-querying of meal plans within the frontend Vue.js application. They also fixed UI issues related to component titles and sidebar behavior and made significant refactoring by converting several components to use the composition API, enhancing type safety and code maintainability.
restapi-backenduser-experiencevuereactiveui-editor
mozilla/pontoon
Sep 2020 - May 2021
Mozilla's Localization Platform
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 reviews, 29 commits, 28 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Philipp primarily contributed to bug fixes and dependency updates within the Mozilla Pontoon localization platform. Their work involved resolving issues with documentation, updating Python testing dependencies, and removing/updating project dependencies to improve the platform's stability and compatibility with newer Django and other related library versions. They also updated the Django-based project to support Django 3.2, including the required code adjustments. Additionally, the user addressed deprecation warnings and made code improvements.
djangotranslationjavascriptpontoondesign
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