Sandro Braun
Co-Founder And Software Engineer at timberleicht
Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolSandro Braun is a co-founder and software engineer with 10 years of hands-on experience at the intersection of computational imaging, embedded systems, and machine learning, currently building algorithmic planning tools for multi-story timber construction at timberleicht. He brings a rare blend of hardware and software expertise—Altium PCB design, microcontroller and FPGA development—paired with deep learning and computer vision research that led to publications and patent applications in medical imaging. Sandro has a track record of shipping robust code and tests in open-source projects (contributions to notable repos like tikzplotlib and Google Research’s arXiv LaTeX cleaner) and improving developer workflows through automation and refactoring. He also co-organized large hackathons and runs workshops and talks, demonstrating both technical leadership and community-building skills. Colleagues value his curiosity for cutting-edge research and his knack for turning complex academic ideas into practical products.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, 1,6 (German Grade System), Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, 1,6 (German Grade System) at Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)
French, English
Stackoverflow
187reputation
47kreached
7answers
1question
Github Skills (17)
pytest10
python10
matplotlib10
testing10
regex10
regular-expression10
latex10
yaml9
logging9
unit-test8
jupyter-notebook6
typehinting6
msys6
windows6
python-sphinx6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
nschloe/tikzplotlib
Jan 2020 - Nov 2020
:bar_chart: Save matplotlib figures as TikZ/PGFplots for smooth integration into LaTeX.
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:55 commits, 3 PRs, 23 comments in 9 months
Contributions summary:Sandro's commits primarily focus on implementing and expanding the test suite for the `tikzplotlib` library. They added several new tests, including tests for the `pruneOutsideBox` functionality, and tests for different plot types and scales. Furthermore, the user refactored existing tests to align with changes in the library's data update model.
matplotlibpgfplotstikzpythonlatex
google-research/arxiv-latex-cleaner
Sep 2020 - Sep 2020
arXiv LaTeX Cleaner: Easily clean the LaTeX code of your paper to submit to arXiv
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 11 commits, 1 PR in 1 day
Contributions summary:Sandro primarily contributed to improving the functionality and maintainability of the arXiv LaTeX cleaner tool. They implemented a configuration argument, allowing the program to read settings from a YAML file, enhancing flexibility. Furthermore, the user added a feature for finding and replacing patterns within the LaTeX code and integrated a logging system for improved debugging. They also refactored the code with algorithmic improvements.
latexarxiv
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.