Dr. Mathias Laurin

• Takes Bazel infrastructure on own initiative and after 2 years by demonstrating and introducing idiomatic usage. • Leads partitioning of monolithic codebase resulting in faster development cycles. • Starts a technical book club, still active. • Reengineers acquisition of monitoring data with over 100 × performance improvement. • Develops new features and maintains legacy components in C++, Python, and Rust programming languages. • Participates in level-3 support with direct contact to customers.

• Develops and maintains python-mbedtls, a cryptography library. • Contributes features, bugfixes, and documentation to various open-source projects, among them SmallTalk, Python, cpp-httplib, and many small libraries. • Presents an history and definition of object-oriented programming at C++ meetup (MUC++)

• Designs a framework to control and regulate FemtoFiber ultra product line of lasers. • Spawns a culture of test automation and good practices after reengineering the tests. • Optimizes high-throughput real-time data treatment server with numpy, critical to the THz laser product line. • Participates in process improvements task force resulting in coding guidelines.

• Writes reactive backend to IoT & smart home automation products using WebSocket, Rx, and NoSQL. • Establishes software-development plan to ISO 9001 certification. • Introduces high ROI agile techniques such as unit testing and lightweight code reviews.

• Coordinates 15 teams and a 3 M€ project studying novel applications to ionic liquids. • Manages own team up to 5 members and 170+ k€ budget. Team specializes in spectroscopy. • Conceives, designs, and organizes construction of high-end catalytic reactor. Also built large ultra-high vacuum equipments. • Writes or contributes to academic papers and communicates at international conferences.

• Develops a statistical mechanics model in C++. • Hands-on experience of synchrotron-based electron spectroscopy and STM.

• Coordinates, manages construction, and tests large equipment. Project successfully completed ahead of schedule. • Coaches junior group members and initiated internal documentation for said equipment.

Dissertation title: Combining experiments and simulations: diffusion and fluctuation of CO oxidation on Pd-supported nanoparticles. • Hands-on experience of mass spectrometry, infrared and photoelectron spectroscopy. • Develops numerical modeling code for kinetics and statistical mechanics in C++, Fortran, and Matlab.