Simon Kassing
Backend Engineer at Feldera
Delft, South Holland, Netherlands
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Top SchoolSimon Kassing is a backend engineer and systems researcher with 12 years of experience, combining a PhD in Computer Science from ETH Zürich with hands-on production work at startups like Feldera. He focuses on improving performance, resilience, analyzability, and efficiency of networked systems, translating deep research into pragmatic backend solutions. His background includes doctoral research at ETH and industry internships at Mellanox and IBM, giving him a strong footing in both theory and high-performance networking practice. Based in Delft, he brings a disciplined, measurement-driven approach to building robust services and tooling that make complex distributed behavior observable and efficient.
11 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at ETH ZürichBachelor of Science - BSc, Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BSc, Computer Science and Engineering at Delft University of Technology
Github Skills (47)
optimization10
astrodynamics10
simulation10
simulation-framework10
data-analytics10
combinatorial-optimization10
orbital-mechanics10
operations-research10
cyclone10
earth10
api10
reddit10
sql10
orbit10
linear-programming10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
snkas/floodns
Jun 2020 - Jan 2022
Flow-level simulator to simulate routed flows over time.
Contributions:6 releases, 23 commits, 5 PRs in 1 year 7 months
simulatorsimulationflowssimulate
jReddit/jReddit
Jun 2014 - Jul 2015
:cyclone: Java wrapper for Reddit API
Contributions:67 commits, 4 PRs, 38 comments in 1 year
apireddit-apicyclonejavareddit
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