Tim Farkas
Visiting Student at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTim Farkas is a multidisciplinary builder working at the intersection of machine learning, biotechnology, and medicine, with 10 years of hands-on experience spanning clinical care, research, and software development. Currently a visiting student at MIT and a Computer Science MSc student at UCL while training in medicine at Charité, he combines clinical insight from psychiatric and neurosurgical rotations with computational skills applied to projects like contributing robust CLI functionality to the high-performance V programming language. As a founder of High Impact Medicine Berlin and co-founder of Aurea Berlin, he has scaled communities and operations—turning ideas into sustainable, revenue-generating ventures and fellowship programs that catalyze high-leverage careers. He’s comfortable translating between wet-lab, clinical, and engineering teams, and has practical experience with EEG/TMS research, genetic engineering training, and product prototyping. Notably, his background includes field paramedic service where he developed resilience under extreme operational stress—an experience that informs both his leadership and focus on high-impact, translational problems.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Matura, perfect grade, 1.0 ('ausgezeichneter Erfolg'), Matura, perfect grade, 1.0 ('ausgezeichneter Erfolg') at BG/BRG PurkersdorfMaster's visiting student, Computational Neuroscience, Master's visiting student, Computational Neuroscience at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyM1 State Examination (German equivalent of a medical BSc), Medicine, M1 State Examination (German equivalent of a medical BSc), Medicine at Charité - Universitätsmedizin BerlinUniversity College London
English, German, French, Chinese, Latin
Github Skills (9)
compiler10
vlang10
command-line-interface10
programming-language10
compiler-compiler10
go10
command-line10
cli10
testing9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
vlang/v
Nov 2019 - Feb 2022
Simple, fast, safe, compiled language for developing maintainable software. Compiles itself in <1s with zero library dependencies. Supports automatic C => V translation. https://vlang.io
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 reviews, 26 commits, 34 PRs in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Tim primarily contributed to the development of the `vlib/cli` module, implementing functionalities for command-line interface creation and parsing. Their work included defining the `Command` struct, adding features like flags, subcommands, and help/version commands, and implementing parsing logic for arguments and flags. The commits also include comprehensive testing of the CLI functionalities, confirming that the code is robust. This user also refactored code to align with best practices.
dependenciesdevelopingzerotranslationcompiled-language
timbasel/vscode-search-selection
May 2020 - May 2022
Adds 'Search Selection' entry to the context menu
Contributions:7 commits, 3 PRs, 5 pushes in 1 year 11 months
context-menuselectionpluginmenu
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