Timo Sachsenberg
Staff Research Scientist Lecturer at Universität Tübingen
Stuttgart Region Germany
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Top SchoolTimo Sachsenberg is a Staff Research Scientist and Lecturer at Universität Tübingen with 15 years of experience at the intersection of computational biology, machine learning, and software engineering. He specializes in computational proteomics and has a strong track record in research, teaching, and supervising students while delivering production-quality code in C++, Python, R and MATLAB. As a frequent back-end contributor to the well-known OpenMS project, he has driven core module enhancements and bug fixes for mass-spectrometry data processing and visualization. His background includes freelance work in computer vision and 3D reconstruction, reflecting a practical fluency with OpenCV and OpenGL that complements his bioinformatics expertise. Timo combines academic rigor from a Diplom in Bioinformatics with hands-on systems engineering, making him effective at translating complex scientific requirements into robust software. Colleagues value his interdisciplinary collaborations and consistent ability to bridge algorithmic development with maintainable code.
15 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Diplom (equivalent to Master of Science), Bioinformatics / Computational Biology, Diplom (equivalent to Master of Science), Bioinformatics / Computational Biology at Universität Tübingen
German, English, French, Portuguese
Github Skills (10)
data-structures10
algorithms10
build-system10
openms10
c-language10
cmake10
cprogramming-language10
data-structure10
mass-spectrometry9
develop9
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
OpenMS/OpenMS
Aug 2010 - Jan 2023
The codebase of the OpenMS project
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 releases, 2407 reviews, 3404 commits in 12 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Timo primarily contributed to the back-end development of the project, as evidenced by the frequent commits fixing bugs and implementing enhancements in C++. Their work focused on refining and extending the functionality of the OpenMS project, which involves data processing, analysis, and visualization for mass spectrometry. The commits frequently involved the modification of core modules and data structures within the codebase, as well as fixing compilation errors.
windowsanalysesms-datalinuxc-plus-plus
OpenMS/images
Sep 2016 - May 2023
Additional files (logos, splash screen, icons)
Contributions:3 PRs, 11 pushes, 8 branches in 6 years 9 months
svgsplash-screenadditionallogossplash
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