Tom Wiesing
Research Software Engineer at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg
Erlangen, Bavaria, Germany
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Top SchoolTom Wiesing is a Research Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building reliable backend systems and research data management services, currently supporting FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg’s Competence Center for Research Data and Information. He holds a Doctor of Engineering in Computer Science and combines academic rigor with hands-on engineering to design semantic markup, interactive publishing tools, and infrastructure automated via Docker, Ansible, and Git. A recurring collaborator with NIST on LaTeXML, he’s contributed substantive bug fixes, refactors and CI improvements to a widely used TeX-to-XML/HTML/MathML toolchain—work that reveals an attention to reproducible publishing and tooling for scientific workflows. Comfortable co-leading interdisciplinary teams, Tom pairs deep domain knowledge in computational mathematics and data engineering with a pragmatic focus on maintainability and reproducible research.
13 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor Of Engineering, Computer Science, Doctor Of Engineering, Computer Science at FAU Erlangen-NürnbergMaster of Science - MS, Data Engineering, Master of Science - MS, Data Engineering at Jacobs University Bremen
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Github Skills (13)
xml10
debug10
latex10
perl10
xslt9
refactoring9
build-automation8
many-to-many6
javascript6
django-orm6
python6
closures6
django6
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
brucemiller/LaTeXML
Jun 2017 - Aug 2022
LaTeXML: a TeX and LaTeX to XML/HTML/ePub/MathML translator.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 reviews, 59 commits, 57 PRs in 5 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Tom primarily contributes to bug fixes and improvements within the LaTeXML codebase. They addressed issues related to macro definitions, JATS output formatting, and key-value package support. Furthermore, the user refactored core objects, such as the `Box` and `Locator` classes, leading to enhanced code consistency and added range support to locators. Additionally, they fixed issues related to compilation and runtime environments.
xmllatexepubmathmltranslator
OpenJUB/dreamjub
Feb 2016 - Apr 2018
Jacobs Directory Exploration and Mapping Server.
Contributions:41 commits, 38 PRs, 53 pushes in 2 years 2 months
mappingdirectoryjacobs
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