Stefanie Schirmer
Senior Software Engineer at DuckDuckGo
Berlin, Other
Summary
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Top SchoolStefanie Schirmer is a Senior Software Engineer based in Berlin with 14 years of experience building search and backend systems at companies like DuckDuckGo and Etsy. She combines a strong research background—a PhD in Bioinformatics and postdoctoral work in computational biology—with practical engineering, having moved from academic modeling to production search infrastructure and unikernel systems with MirageOS. At DuckDuckGo she focuses on search backend reliability and performance, and her open-source contributions include cleanup and UI-focused improvements to privacy-minded projects such as ChatSecureAndroid. Comfortable across low-level systems and large-scale services, she brings a habit of meticulous code refinement and a cross-disciplinary perspective that surfaces subtle but impactful improvements.
14 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Postdoctoral research, Biomathematics, Bioinformatics, and Computational Biology, Postdoctoral research, Biomathematics, Bioinformatics, and Computational Biology at Université de MontréalPhD, Bioinformatics and Genome Research, PhD, Bioinformatics and Genome Research at Bielefeld University
English, German, French
Github Skills (7)
javas10
android-sdk10
android10
java10
ui-design7
interface-design7
uid7
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
guardianproject/ChatSecureAndroid
Jul 2012 - Jul 2012
This project has ended, but ChatSecure iOS continues. For Android, please use Conversations or Zom instead
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:5 commits in 1 day
Contributions summary:Stefanie primarily focused on code cleanup and removal of dead code within the Android application. They removed unnecessary imports and refactored code in several Java files, including activities related to chat functionality and account management. Furthermore, the user appears to be addressing UI-related issues, attempting to modify or remove visual elements within the chat interface. This suggests a focus on streamlining the application's codebase and improving its visual presentation.
chatiosandroidconversations
linse/anki-prompt
Nov 2012 - Dec 2013
Contributions:13 commits in 1 year 1 month
bash-promptbashflashcardspromptshell
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