Simeon Schaub
Student at KIT
Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolSimeon Schaub is a software engineer and physics master’s student with 8 years of experience bridging scientific computing and reliable tooling, currently based in Karlsruhe. He is an active Julia maintainer and collaborator with notable contributions to core Julia, the Julia package installer juliaup, and the Yggdrasil binary-builder ecosystem, demonstrating deep expertise in build automation, cross-platform packaging, and language internals. His work on Zygote.jl improved AD support for linear algebra—boosting gradient reliability for ML workflows—while contributions at MIT CSAIL underscore his research-grade engineering background. Comfortable across backend systems, build pipelines, and numerical libraries, he pairs rigorous academic training in physics and computational science with practical, production-focused open-source impact.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computational Science and Engineering, Master's degree, Computational Science and Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyMaster of Science - MS, Physics, Master of Science - MS, Physics at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
German, English
Github Skills (41)
programming-language10
scripting10
command-line-interface10
machine-learning10
gradient10
automation10
automatic-differentiation10
script10
command-line10
sh10
automations10
rust10
shell10
julia10
cli10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
JuliaLang/julia
Sep 2019 - Jan 2023
The Julia Programming Language
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:637 reviews, 230 commits, 368 PRs in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Simeon's contributions primarily focused on enhancing the Julia programming language, specifically targeting improvements to its core functionality. Their work included specialized implementations for complex conjugates, corrections to the printing and parsing of the language's syntax, and improvements to the handling of numeric operations, such as rational numbers and big integers. The user also worked on improvements to REPL and related tools for better developer experience.
sciencejulia-languagemachine-learningjulialangpetsc
JuliaPackaging/Yggdrasil
Apr 2020 - Feb 2022
Collection of builder repositories for BinaryBuilder.jl
Role in this project:Automation Engineer / Build & Release Engineer
Automation Engineer / Build & Release EngineerContributions:41 reviews, 13 commits, 30 PRs in 1 year 10 months
Contributions summary:Simeon's contributions primarily involve creating and updating recipes for building various software packages within the context of a binary builder. Their work includes adding new recipes for tools like `grep`, `sed`, and `diffutils`, as well as updating existing recipes for `ruby`, `libdrm`, `Wayland`, `Qemu`, and several other dependencies. They focus on modifying build scripts, configuring build environments, and resolving build issues, demonstrating a strong focus on automation and ensuring successful package compilation across different platforms.
repositoriesbinarybuildermonorepobuilderjulia
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