Stefan Seyfried
Vice President, Medical Affairs Specialty Medicines Europe at Daiichi Sankyo Europe GmbH
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
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Top SchoolStefan Seyfried is a senior medical affairs executive with 16 years of pharma experience, currently serving as Vice President Medical Affairs for Specialty Medicines Europe at Daiichi Sankyo. He has a strong track record leading medical franchises and scientific operations across respiratory, cardiovascular, renal and metabolic areas during a long tenure at Novartis. Trained as a pharmacist with a PhD in pharmacology and immunology, he blends deep clinical and scientific expertise with strategic leadership in clinical development, medical affairs and scientific liaison. Based in Munich, he pairs corporate leadership with hands-on technical curiosity—evidenced by open-source contributions to embedded/IoT projects and Linux appliance tooling—highlighting a practical problem-solver mindset beyond typical medical affairs roles. Colleagues recognize him for stabilizing complex operational programs and translating therapeutic science into actionable medical strategy across Europe.
16 years of coding experience
PhD, Pharmacology, Immunology, PhD, Pharmacology, Immunology at FAU Erlangen-NürnbergMaster of Science, Pharmacy, Master of Science, Pharmacy at The Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg
German, English, French
Github Skills (29)
c-language10
scripting10
drc10
audio-processing10
spi10
esp826610
i2c10
script10
ssds10
ipxe10
driver10
esp3210
sh10
shell10
cprogramming-language10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
ThingPulse/esp8266-oled-ssd1306
Feb 2022 - Dec 2022
Driver for the SSD1306 and SH1106 based 128x64, 128x32, 64x48 pixel OLED display running on ESP8266/ESP32
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:1 review, 6 commits, 2 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Stefan focused on improving the OLED display driver, specifically for the ESP8266/ESP32 platforms. They implemented optimizations such as early exits from loops, fixed width/height confusion, and improved word wrapping functionality. The contributions included adding the ability to break words on '/' and adding return values to core functions. Additionally, the user updated the SPI interface to allow usage of SPI displays when no CS pin is available.
drivermbed-osi2csh1106esp8266
schreibfaul1/ESP32-audioI2S
Jan 2022 - Dec 2022
Play mp3 files from SD via I2S
Role in this project:Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:13 commits, 9 PRs, 13 comments in 11 months
Contributions summary:Stefan primarily focused on optimizing and maintaining audio playback functionality within the ESP32-based audio project. Their contributions include simplifying HTTP/HTTPS handling for streaming audio, adding functionality to allow setting buffer sizes for RAM and PSRAM, and ensuring that decoder buffers are properly allocated in internal RAM to avoid stuttering issues. They also addressed several minor issues and added code optimizations, as well as implemented new functions such as `getCodec()` and `getCodecname()`.
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