Sudarsan Surendralal
Technical Product Owner AI Products And AI Engineering at QIAGEN
Dusseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Top SchoolSudarsan Surendralal is a Technical Product Owner and AI engineering lead with a decade of experience building and operationalizing ML and computational modelling solutions across research and industry. He blends deep scientific expertise—earned through a PhD and postdoctoral work in atomistic modelling and as a core developer of the pyiron open-source framework—with pragmatic software engineering and cloud-native deployment practices on GCP. At QIAGEN he leads end-to-end AI product lifecycles for global technical service and customer care, and his prior roles span geospatial ad-tech modelling and research-driven tool development. Comfortable moving projects from prototype to production and sunset, he brings rare fluency in DFT-level simulation, statistical sampling, and scalable ML/DevOps pipelines. Based in Düsseldorf, he pairs rigorous academic foundations with product-focused delivery, often translating complex physical models into reliable, production-ready software.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Mechanical Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Mechanical Engineering at Ruhr University BochumDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD at Max Planck SocietyBachelor's degree Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Bachelor's degree Metallurgical and Materials Engineering at National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli
English, Hindi, Malayalam, Tamil, German
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Github Skills (42)
simulation10
dft10
ab-initio10
python10
computational-science10
lammps10
ide10
ase10
materials-informatics10
development-environment10
pyiron10
gaussian10
workflow-management10
numba10
science10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
pyiron/pyiron_vasp
Mar 2018 - Nov 2018
Vasp plugin for pyiron - an integrated development environment (IDE) for computational materials science.
Contributions:26 PRs, 78 pushes, 18 branches in 7 months
pythonsciencecomputational-materials-scienceintegratedpyiron
sudarsan-surendralal/matsci-thesis
May 2020 - Nov 2021
A clear and easy to use tex template for academic thesis in the field of materials science.
Contributions:78 commits, 6 PRs, 52 pushes in 1 year 5 months
sciencethesis-templatematerials-sciencelatexfield
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