Simon Convent
Software Engineer at flatexDEGIRO
Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Top SchoolSimon Convent is a software engineer with 9 years of experience, trained in Computer Science (MSc/BSc) at RWTH Aachen with a focus on High Performance Computing and LLVM/OpenMP tooling. He has built backend systems across fintech and IoT-focused firms, most recently joining flatexDEGIRO after a multi-year backend engineering role at grandcentrix and earlier work at itestra. Comfortable bridging research and production, Simon’s academic work on the OpenMP Tools Interface signals deep familiarity with performance-critical runtime and parallelism concerns. Based in Cologne, he combines pragmatic backend development with a research-minded approach to tooling and performance optimization.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at RWTH Aachen University
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Github Skills (110)
json-parser10
http10
deserialization10
microservices10
jackson10
high-performance10
grpc10
json10
distributed-systems10
java10
serialization10
rpc10
gson10
fastjson10
restful10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
OpenMPToolsInterface/LLVM-openmp
Dec 2016 - Oct 2018
LLVM runtime with experimental changes for OMPT (Preview of TR7 features in *_tr branches)
Contributions:354 commits, 18 pushes, 9 branches in 1 year 11 months
brancheschangesruntimellvm
sconvent/dependabot-bot
Jan 2023 - May 2023
A script to automatically create PRs to add a Dependabot config to projects
Contributions:1 review, 3 PRs, 77 pushes in 3 months
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