Svetlana Kyas
Senior Software Engineer at Neue Zürcher Zeitung
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Top SchoolSvetlana Kyas is a Senior Software Engineer based in Zurich with eight years of professional experience blending research-grade numerical methods and production C++ systems. She specializes in modernizing and operating real-time middleware—bringing automated testing and CI/CD into legacy codebases to improve reliability and reduce technical debt. Her background as a postdoctoral researcher in computational PDEs and contributions to an open-source chemical reaction solver inform a strong foundation in mathematical modeling and algorithm design that she applies to distributed systems and data synchronization. Comfortable across academia and industry, she has led coordination of complex projects—from ticket reservation bookkeeping to scientific conference organization—demonstrating both technical depth and operational rigor. Colleagues describe her as drawn to tricky mathematical and programming challenges and quick to adopt new technologies to solve them.
8 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS), Mathematical Modeling and Informatics, Master of Science (MS), Mathematical Modeling and Informatics at Saint Petersburg State Polytechnical UniversityMaster's Degree, Mathematical Informational Technology, Master's Degree, Mathematical Informational Technology at University of Jyväskylä
English, Russian, German
Github Skills (24)
chemical-engineering10
hierarchical10
reactive10
modeling-tool10
mybinder10
modeling10
bezier9
jupyterlab-extension9
binder9
ipywidgets8
pluralsight8
jupyterlab8
simulation8
geometry8
jupyter7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
reaktoro/reaktoro-jupyter
Dec 2019 - Jul 2022
This project enables the use of Reaktoro in mybinder.org using JupyterLab
Contributions:202 commits, 30 PRs, 12 pushes in 2 years 7 months
jupyterlab-extensionjupyter-notebookjupyterlabmybinderipywidgets
mtsveta/reaktoro-v2-workshop
Mar 2022 - May 2022
Contributions:118 commits, 52 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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