Sophia Mersmann
Senior Data Visualisation Engineer
Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany
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Top SchoolSophia Mersmann is a Senior Data Visualisation Engineer based in Frankfurt with 11 years of experience turning complex datasets into clear, actionable stories. She has progressed from research roles and internships in bioinformatics and data science to senior visualization work at Our World in Data, bringing rigorous statistical training from Imperial College London. Sophia blends back-end engineering skills—evident from contributions to the OpenMS open-source project improving file metadata and peptide scoring—with a strong eye for readable, publishable visual outputs. Her background in bioinformatics and research software gives her a rare fluency in both scientific data formats and production-grade tooling. Colleagues value her for making technical improvements that quietly raise data quality and usability across teams. She thrives at the intersection of research, engineering, and public-facing communication.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Philosophy - MPhil, Statistics, Master of Philosophy - MPhil, Statistics at Imperial College LondonBachelor's degree, Bioinformatics, Bachelor's degree, Bioinformatics at University of Tübingen
German, English
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Github Skills (15)
algorithms10
openms10
c-language10
mass-spectrometry10
cprogramming-language10
proteins10
fileio9
file-access9
file-handling9
file-processing9
data-analysis8
cypress6
svelte6
typescript6
sveltekit6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
OpenMS/OpenMS
Apr 2018 - Jul 2018
The codebase of the OpenMS project
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 4 PRs, 15 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Sophia's contributions primarily involve enhancing the `FileInfo` utility within the OpenMS project. They added new fields and summary statistics to the TSV output, enriching the data provided. The user also improved the readability of the TSV output and extended the `FileInfo` utility to support the idXML format and correctly apply mass corrections within the code. Furthermore, the user integrated the option to specify the type of peptide main scores.
windowsanalysesms-datalinuxc-plus-plus
sophiamersmann/portfolio
Sep 2020 - Jul 2022
Personal collection of data visualisation projects
Contributions:5 PRs, 49 pushes, 8 branches in 1 year 10 months
datavisualisationdata-sciencedata-visualisationdata-visualization
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