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 (33)
r-library9
api8
mixed-models8
r-package7
imgui7
bayesian7
bayesian-data-analysis7
stan7
cpp6
game-development6
graphical-user-interface6
constrained-optimization6
matlab6
game-engine6
r6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
samuel-watson/glmmrBase
Aug 2022 - Mar 2023
R package for specifying, fitting, analysing, and simulating generalised linear mixed models
Contributions:16 releases, 54 commits, 34 PRs in 7 months
mixed-modelsrr-package
samuel-watson/glmmrOptim
Sep 2022 - Apr 2026
Approximate optimal experimental designs using combinatorial methods for generalised linear mixed models
Contributions:6 releases, 5 PRs, 55 pushes in 3 years 8 months
experimental-designmixed-models
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