Tobias Uelwer
Applied Scientist at Microsoft
Dusseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolTobias Uelwer is an Applied Scientist with nine years of experience specializing in machine learning and deep learning, currently working on internationalization for Microsoft Dragon Copilot. He holds a PhD in Computer Science and has transitioned from academic research and postdoctoral work into applied AI roles at research institutes and industry. Tobias has hands-on experience building and deploying LLM applications, fine-tuning models for NLP, and putting research into production-grade features. His open-source contributions include modernizing test infrastructure for the pymatting Python library, demonstrating attention to software quality and reproducible engineering practices. Based in Düsseldorf, he combines rigorous academic training with practical product focus, often bridging research and deployment. Colleagues value him for turning complex model research into reliable, testable systems.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Dr. rer. nat., Computer Science, Dr. rer. nat., Computer Science at University of DortmundMaster's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at University of Düsseldorf
Github Skills (5)
pytest10
python10
image-processing10
testing10
documentation6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
pymatting/pymatting
Jan 2020 - Jan 2023
A Python library for alpha matting
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:4 releases, 1 review, 112 commits in 3 years
Contributions summary:Tobias primarily focused on improving the testing infrastructure of the `pymatting` library. They updated testing instructions, integrated pytest for test execution, and rewrote existing tests to utilize the new testing framework. Furthermore, they added tests and made minor fixes, and updated the documentation related to running tests. The user's work significantly enhanced the reliability and maintainability of the codebase by modernizing testing practices.
python-librarymattingpythonimage-processingpython3
tuelwer/phase-retrieval
Jan 2019 - Jun 2020
Contributions:11 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
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