Tim Ermilov
Founding Principal Engineer at Self-employed
Greater Leipzig Area Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolTim Ermilov is a founding principal engineer and entrepreneurial research engineer with ~16 years of professional software experience and a PhD in computer science focused on data science. He builds AI- and knowledge-driven platforms end-to-end, with deep expertise in LLMs, NLP, knowledge graphs, recommendation engines and large-scale data engineering. Tim has founded and led multiple startups (including DataBorg and Hyperflow), contributed to production-grade tooling like the popular exoframe deployment CLI, and maintained notable open-source projects. His background spans academia and industry—postdoctoral big-data research at University of Leipzig and hands-on consulting in the JavaScript ecosystem—allowing him to bridge rigorous research with pragmatic product delivery. Based in the Greater Leipzig Area, he also teaches coding on YouTube and quietly combines systems-level engineering (Golang, Python, Typescript) with semantic-web and graph database specialization.
16 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science at Universität Leipzig / University of LeipzigComputer Science, B, Computer Science, B at SUT LyceeDipl.-Ing., Computer Science, B, Dipl.-Ing., Computer Science, B at Bonch-Bruevich Saint-Petersburg State University of Telecommunications
English, Russian, German
Github Skills (10)
command-line-interface10
open-source10
error-handling10
nodejs10
javascript10
command-line10
cli10
docker8
dockers8
devops8
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
exoframejs/exoframe
Aug 2016 - Jan 2023
Exoframe is a self-hosted tool that allows simple one-command deployments using Docker
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:39 releases, 635 commits, 49 PRs in 6 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Tim significantly contributed to the development of Exoframe's command-line interface, adding and enhancing core functionality. They implemented several new commands, including `endpoint`, `list`, `remove`, and template management. The user also improved the codebase, correctly handling various error scenarios and improving the structure of the CLI with appropriate use of options.
cli-appdevopsdeploymentdocker-manage-toolhosted
dice-group/gatsby-theme-rdfsite
Oct 2019 - Feb 2021
Gatsby theme for RDF-based research project websites
Contributions:3 releases, 68 commits, 4 PRs in 1 year 3 months
gatsbygatsby-themerdf
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