Uwe Schmitt
Techology Scouting Lead Scientific IT Services at ETH Zurich
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Top SchoolUwe Schmitt is a Technology Scouting Lead at ETH Zürich with 12 years of software engineering experience focused on scientific IT, research software, and developer enablement. He combines a strong academic foundation in applied mathematics (Dr. rer. nat.) with hands-on roles as a senior developer and scientific software specialist supporting cosmology research and institutional IT services. Uwe has led R&D teams and built data-mining and machine-learning solutions in industry, while contributing to open-source scientific tooling—most notably improving the pyOpenMS Python interface for the widely used OpenMS project. Known for a keen appetite for learning, he blends deep numerical expertise with practical skills in Python, test automation, and software optimization to help researchers ship reliable, reproducible code. Based in Zurich, he thrives at the intersection of research and production software, often working part-time embedded in research groups to translate scientific needs into robust software.
12 years of coding experience
Dr. rer. nat., Applied Mathematics, Dr. rer. nat., Applied Mathematics at Universität des Saarlandes
English, German
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Github Skills (8)
openms10
c-language10
mass-spectrometry10
cprogramming-language10
python10
cython10
proteins10
algorithms9
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
OpenMS/OpenMS
Apr 2014 - Apr 2015
The codebase of the OpenMS project
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:20 commits, 1 PR, 17 comments in 11 months
Contributions summary:Uwe primarily contributed to the pyOpenMS Python library, focusing on fixing bugs and adding getters/setters for various data structures. These contributions span across multiple core components like PeptideIdentification, AASequence, and MetaInfo. The user also worked on test-related fixes, suggesting a focus on maintaining and improving the quality of the pyOpenMS library, especially within the Python interface.
windowsanalysesms-datalinuxc-plus-plus
uweschmitt/pyprophet
Dec 2014 - Jul 2016
Contributions:101 commits, 6 PRs, 33 pushes in 1 year 7 months
pythonpython3reimplementation
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