About me
I'm a software engineer at my Alma Mater, TU Wien, where I'm responsible for our institutional research data repository. There, I mostly work on the backend... Evidently.
On paper, my position is DevOps – but my actual duties extend beyond just keeping the machines running. I also act as customer support for our researchers when they share their research data via our platform, and help them with improving the FAIRness of their datasets. Every now and then, I also hold training workshops about research data repositories for our researchers, and hold guest lectures for our students about data stewardship.
Over the course of the years, I've been lucky enough to actively participate in development sprints for InvenioRDM with the core maintainer team at CERN. InvenioRDM is not only the basis for TU Wien Research Data, but also the slightly more well-known Zenodo.
I've been participating in the Open Repositories conferences since 2022, together with the core InvenioRDM maintainer team.
At the OR2025, I got promoted to the role of conference committee member!
Education
As mentioned above, I've graduated from TU Wien where I've completed both my Bachelor's and Master's degrees in software engineering. In particular, I've enjoyed lectures on security and privacy, and the logical foundations of computer science. Once you get the hang of it, it's actually quite fun!
My Master's Thesis was published as a peer-reviewed article in the Journal of Scheduling: "Exact and metaheuristic approaches for unrelated parallel machine scheduling"
Going through the process of scientific peer reviews once was enough for my taste however, and I decided that I'm more of an engineer than a scientist.
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Interested?
Check out my CV if you're interested! Though in real life, I'd probably be wearing a Hawaiian shirt.