Simon Schaefer
Lead Software Engineer AI at Telespazio
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolSimon Schaefer is a Lead Software Engineer AI based in Munich with nine years of hands-on experience building and productionizing ML systems across healthcare, industrial IoT, and survey/social-behavioral analytics. He has led ML teams and ML-Ops efforts, shipped deep learning products for medical image diagnostics and industrial predictive systems, and most recently directs AI engineering at Telespazio. A technical co-founder background and early work deploying a melanoma-detection pipeline speak to his end-to-end product ownership—from research and model training to quality assurance and integration. He pairs an MS in Computational Linguistics with a BS in Bioinformatics, enabling cross-disciplinary solutions spanning NLP, computer vision, and time-series. Colleagues know him for translating complex research into reliable production software and for balancing R&D curiosity with practical delivery.
9 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Bioinformatics, Bachelor of Science - BS Bioinformatics at University of TübingenMaster of Science - MS Computational Linguistics, Master of Science - MS Computational Linguistics at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Github Skills (36)
image-reconstruction10
trajectory-optimization10
robot10
image-processing9
robotics9
optimization9
computer-vision9
python8
reinforcement-learning8
machine-learning8
artificial-intelligence8
pytorch8
deep-learning7
neural-network6
launchpad6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
simon-schaefer/simon-schaefer.github.io
Mar 2019 - Dec 2023
Contributions:106 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 9 months
simon-schaefer/robot_judge
Mar 2019 - Aug 2019
Contributions:324 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
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