Yannick Funk
Machine Learning Engineer at WetterOnline GmbH
Herrenberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
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Top SchoolYannick Funk is a Machine Learning Engineer with seven years of experience building production-ready systems and real-time signal processing software, currently working at WetterOnline in Germany. He combines strong academic performance from KIT with hands-on engineering across startups and research environments, shipping ML solutions at visioncheckout and Cinemo and developing Rust/Python real-time systems at OPVengineering. Yannick contributes to open-source backend work—most notably adding WebSocket, notification, and push features to the Revolt chat backend—demonstrating expertise in scalable, low-latency services. He also has a background in teaching programming fundamentals to first-year students, reflecting a knack for clear technical communication. Colleagues describe him as curious and adaptable, frequently exploring new technologies and optimizations beyond core ML tasks.
7 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Computer Science, 1.7, Master's Thesis: 1.0, MS, Computer Science, 1.7, Master's Thesis: 1.0 at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)BS, Computer Science, 2.5, Bachelor's Thesis: 1.0, BS, Computer Science, 2.5, Bachelor's Thesis: 1.0 at Karlsruhe Insititute of Technology (KIT)
German, English, French
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Github Skills (26)
messaging10
websocket10
regex10
message-system10
message-handler10
notification10
websockets-client10
api10
message-bus10
rust10
websocket-client10
client-websocket10
messagebox10
json9
mongodb-database9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
revoltchat/backend
Aug 2021 - Sep 2021
Monorepo for Revolt backend services.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:7 reviews, 18 commits, 5 PRs in 21 days
Contributions summary:Yannick primarily contributed to the backend services of the Revolt project. Their work involved implementing WebSocket functionality, including parsing and handling ping messages, as well as defining and managing server-bound and client-bound notifications. They also made adjustments to the message-sending functionality, including regex optimization, and the implementation of push notifications. Finally, the user unified the `last_message_id` field across multiple channel types and made initial commit for push notifications.
apimonoreporedisbackend-servicesrust
yannickfunk/genanki-rs
May 2021 - Jan 2023
Rust crate to create Anki decks. Based on the python library genanki
Contributions:10 releases, 4 reviews, 69 commits in 1 year 8 months
python-libraryanki-flashcardsgenankicratepython
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