Tamir Hassan
Mitgründer at Living PDF
Austria
Summary
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Top SchoolTamir Hassan is a founder and CTO with 12+ years of deep expertise in document engineering, specializing in document analysis, automatic layout, PDF generation and conversion, and digital typography. He blends rigorous research (Dr.rer.nat. in Computer Science) with product-focused engineering, having led R&D at HP Labs and co-founded multiple startups that industrialize explainable algorithms for PDF structure, accessibility tagging, and logical diffing. Tamir’s work sits at the intersection of technology and design: he builds tools that augment designers and authors by automating mundane tasks while preserving creative control. Comfortable moving from low-level font and typesetting details to end-to-end systems and workflows, he has repeatedly translated academic insights into practical, explainable solutions. Based in Austria, he brings a rare combination of academic depth and hands-on startup leadership that prioritizes transparent, user-centered document tooling.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Vienna University of TechnologyMEng, Computer Science, MEng, Computer Science at University of Warwick
English, German
Github Skills (31)
phonetics8
extraction8
fonts8
font-editor8
python-scripts8
pdf-extraction7
opentype7
pdf7
python7
ufo6
cjk6
truetype5
visual-editor5
pdf-document5
javascript4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
tamirhassan/dataset-tools
Feb 2018 - May 2020
Contributions:4 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 4 months
tamirhassan/pdfxtk
Oct 2013 - Dec 2013
PDF Extraction Toolkit
Contributions:7 commits, 1 PR, 4 pushes in 2 months
extractionpdf-extractionpdf
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