Tamas Gal
Research Computing And Software Engineer at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
Nuremberg, Bavaria, Germany
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Top SchoolTamas Gal is a research computing and software engineer with over two decades of hands-on experience administering Linux/BSD systems and 13 years focused on research software for astroparticle physics and high-performance computing. He develops online and nearline analysis tools, reconstruction algorithms and scalable data pipelines for projects like KM3NeT and contributes to scientific tooling in Julia and Python, including meaningful backend improvements to the widely used DrWatson.jl research helper. Comfortable with large-scale distributed systems and DevOps practices, he bridges physics research and production-grade software engineering at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg and ECAP. Equally at home refactoring test suites and git integration as designing experiments, he brings a pragmatic scientist’s mindset to complex computational problems. Off the clock he channels the same tinkering impulse into DIY modular synthesizers, off-road motorcycling and climbing, underscoring a knack for hands-on problem solving beyond code.
12 years of coding experience
Belvarosi Iskola KalocsaHans-Sachs-Gymnasium NürnbergDiploma (master's degree) in Physics, Physics, Astroparticle Physics, Diploma (master's degree) in Physics, Physics, Astroparticle Physics at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
English, Hungarian, German
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Github Skills (22)
git10
python10
project-management10
testing10
bash10
return-value10
julia10
matplotlib9
linux9
excel9
science9
logging9
shell9
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Github contributions (5)
JuliaDynamics/DrWatson.jl
Jul 2019 - Oct 2020
The perfect sidekick to your scientific inquiries
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 24 commits, 14 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Tamas primarily focused on enhancing the `DrWatson.jl` package, a tool for scientific project management in Julia. Their contributions included refactoring path accessing functions, implementing new functions, and adding extensive tests. They also addressed code deprecations and updated the documentation, including changelog and update messages, to reflect the API changes. Furthermore, the user improved Git integration features, such as `gitdescribe`, and the project's overall structure.
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tamasgal/tamasgal.com
Mar 2019 - Dec 2024
Contributions:42 pushes, 4 branches in 5 years 10 months
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