Ralph Gasser
Senior Software Engineer, IT Consultant And Partner at pontius software GmbH
Trimbach, Solothurn, Switzerland
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Top SchoolRalph Gasser is a Senior Software Engineer, IT consultant and partner with 13 years of experience building practical software solutions for SMEs while bridging academic research and production systems. He holds a summa cum laude PhD in Computer Science from the University of Basel and has applied that research expertise to scalable multimedia search, vector-nearest-neighbor systems and open-source retrieval projects like vitrivr and Cottontail DB. At pontius software he helps clients with requirements, architecture, project management and hands-on development, combining rigorous engineering with clear communication. Formerly a postdoc coordinating Horizon Europe research collaborations and teaching core CS labs, he brings both mentorship and academic rigor to commercial projects. Based in Switzerland, he pairs entrepreneurial pragmatism with a scientist’s curiosity—equally comfortable sketching system architectures or shipping production code.
13 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Nanoscience, 4.8, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Nanoscience, 4.8 at Universität BaselEnglish Language and Literature, General, A, English Language and Literature, General, A at ILSC Education Group, VancouverDoktor (Ph.D.), Computer Science, 6.0 (Summa cum laude), Doktor (Ph.D.), Computer Science, 6.0 (Summa cum laude) at University of BaselEnglish for Work, A, English for Work, A at EC English Language Centres
English, German
Github Skills (55)
similarity-search10
angular10
jar10
feature-extraction10
probe10
retrieval10
approximate-nearest-neighbor-search10
vector-database10
information-retrieval10
similarity10
java10
boolean10
searching10
vector10
textual10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ppanopticon/phd-thesis
May 2021 - Jan 2023
Contributions:198 commits, 29 pushes in 1 year 8 months
ppanopticon/cineast
Dec 2016 - Jan 2018
Contributions:278 pushes, 1 branch, 16 comments in 1 year
3d-modelsvideo-sequencesmotionedgeaudio
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