Thomas Emmerling
Chief Technology Officer at lingoking GmbH
Gilching, Bavaria, Germany
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Top SchoolThomas Emmerling is a CTO and co-founder with 13 years of experience blending cognitive neuroscience, data-driven product strategy, and hands-on software engineering in the retail and research tools space. Holding a Ph.D. in Cognitive Neuroscience from Maastricht University, he has moved from academic research to building and scaling products, most recently leading technology at lingoking GmbH. He combines expertise in Python and data analysis with strategic product management, having led teams at Brain Products and contributed backend code to the well-known PsychoPy project to improve stimulus aperture handling. Thomas is comfortable bridging scientific rigor and commercial priorities—designing experiments and shipping production systems—and has mentored startup founders on tech strategy. Based in Gilching, Bavaria, he brings a rare mix of neuroscience insight and engineering craft to consumer and research-facing products.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Cognitive Neuroscience, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Cognitive Neuroscience at Maastricht UniversityDiploma Psychology, Diploma Psychology at Universität Trier
English, German, Dutch
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Github Skills (2)
python10
testing8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
psychopy/psychopy
Nov 2012 - Jun 2015
For running psychology and neuroscience experiments
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 4 PRs, 8 comments in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Thomas primarily focused on enhancing the `psychopy/psychopy` project by adding new features related to the `visual.Aperture` class. Their contributions included adding the `setOri` and `inverted` parameters to modify aperture behavior, enabling the use of image files with alpha channels for defining apertures, and fixing unit scaling issues. They also added a test to verify the functionality of ImageStim-type Apertures.
neurosciencepythonexperiment-controlcognitive-scienceopenscience
thomastweets/blog.thomasemmerling.de
Jun 2015 - Nov 2019
Contributions:59 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 5 months
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