AbiturLornsenschule Schleswig, 2008 - 2016
Computer Science: Bachelor of ScienceTechnische Hochschule Köln, 2016 - 2017Right after graduating from high school I started my studies in computer science at the Technische Hochschule Köln in Gummersbach. I spent my first two semesters there.
Computer Science: Bachelor of ScienceUniversität Leipzig, 2017 - 2020After the first two semesters I moved to the beautiful city of Leipzig where I continued my studies in computer science.
As with every bachelor's degree, I learned the theoretical and mathematical fundamentals of many different aspects of computer science, from implementing algorithms in hardware to text mining & processing and parallel processing.
For my bachelor's thesis I developed an alternative backend for the word-phrase search engine Netspeak, generating and scoring results for all query types using the BERT language model.Grade: 1.7 (Thesis: 1.3)Topic of Thesis: "Neural Netspeak: Exploring the Performance of Transformer Models as Idiomatic Writing Assistants"
Computer Science: Master of ScienceGottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität Hannover, 2020 - 2022For my master's degree, I moved to Hanover because the University of Hanover offers a high degree of freedom in the choice of courses and many interesting, practice-oriented labs and projects.
I enjoyed being able to take courses on a wide range of different topics, from building a multi-threaded x86 32-bit operating system from scratch, including memory management and process isolation, to learning about the inner workings of data centers and enterprise-grade storage solutions, all the way to image processing and machine learning fundamentals and approaches.
In my master's thesis I developed multiple CNN-based architectures to improve the performance of the upcoming Versatile Video Coding (VVC) standard.Grade: 1.5 (Thesis: 1.0)Topic of Thesis: "Refined Motion-Compensation for VVC using Neural Networks"
Hans Sauer GmbHInternshipHamburg, 2016 - 2016During my last year of high school, I developed an iOS app for the Hans Sauer GmbH for six months.
iDropLinks Media UG (haftungsbeschränkt)Founder, CEO & CTOGummersbach, Leipzig, Hanover, 2016 - 2022Also in the last year of high school, I founded the iDropLinks Media UG (haftungsbeschränkt) together with two partners.
My responsibilities were developing the iOS application iDropLinks, as well as developing, deploying and maintaining the backend and frontend on our servers, in addition to administrating the server itself.
I was also able to gain experience in customer interaction during part of the customer service.
Appsfactory GmbHWorking Student, iOS DevelopmentLeipzig, 2018 - 2020After moving to Leipzig to continue bachelor studies, I started at Appsfactory GmbH as a working student.
Due to my experience with iOS development, I joined this department and was responsible for the development and maintenance of several apps for large customers.
In the two years I worked there, I gained valuable experience in teamwork by working closely with colleagues from the same and other departments.