Samuel Watson
Staff Software Developer at SAP LeanIX
Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Top SchoolSamuel Watson is a Staff Software Developer based in Cologne with eight years of engineering experience spanning backend systems, FPGA research, and applied machine learning. An Australian engineering graduate in Electronics and Mechatronics from ANU, he progressed from FPGA HLS performance work and bio-acoustic ML research to senior backend and staff roles at LeanIX/SAP LeanIX. He brings a practitioner’s mindset to product-grade systems—comfortable optimizing low-level implementations and scaling cloud services—while rapidly adapting to new environments and languages. Outside work he composes music, competes in sports (including international unicycle hockey), and has hands-on experience in community-facing roles from support work to bartending that sharpen his communication and empathy. Colleagues describe him as technically versatile and curious, with a track record of turning research insights into practical software improvements.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Australian National UniversityTertiary Entry Level, Science and Mathematics, 95.85, Tertiary Entry Level, Science and Mathematics, 95.85 at Dickson College
English, German
Github Skills (44)
api9
stan8
bayesian-data-analysis8
bayesian8
r-package7
imgui7
graphical-user-interface7
matlab7
mixed-models7
game-development7
cpp7
bayesian-methods6
bayesian-inference6
nonlinear-optimization6
bayesian-statistics6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
samuel-watson/rts2
Jul 2021 - Mar 2022
Twenty ways to estimate a log-Gaussian Cox Process for real-time disease surveillance. A C++ and R library for estimating LGCP models
Contributions:3 releases, 9 commits, 7 PRs in 8 months
samuel-watson/crctStepdown
May 2021 - Feb 2024
Permutation-based inference for GLMMs including p-values and confidence intervals with corrections for multiple testing
Contributions:7 PRs, 44 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 9 months
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