Received an award from Apple Inc. for my educational Swift Playground as part of their Worldwide Developers Conference.
University Scholarship
Awarded with a one-year scholarship for the Christian-Albrecht University of Kiel as part of
their Software Challenge.
Education
Computer Science (M.Sc.)
University College Dublin
2022 – Present
Computer Science (B.Sc.)
Nordakademie Elmshorn
2017 – 2021
Physics (A-Levels)
Otto-Hahn Gymnasium Geesthacht
2008 – 2017
Passions
Aviation
Engineering
Archery
Introduction
Hi, I'm Til and I am passionate about almost everything that has to do with technology with a
special interest for tech infrastructure and system architecture. I strive to extend my
area of knowledge wherever possible and have been involved in a multitude of disciplines from
web development and infrastructure management all the way down to embedded system design.
Experience
DevOps Engineer — PPI AG
March 2021 – Present
As a junior engineer I am managing, supporting and extending our on-premise Kubernetes
cluster spanning multiple locations and close to fifty servers. Additionally, I nurture a
open-source project for deploying software testing infrastructure using containers. For more
details, consult the second page.
Part-time Student — PPI AG
October 2017 – March 2021
As a student, I contributed to a diverse range of projects — both big and small — and
dipped my toes in the roles of project manager, software architect, and full-stack
developer.
Internships — PPI AG & Brockmann Consult GmbH
April 2014; July 2014; November 2015; August 2016
Both as part of my high-school education and voluntarily, I took a number of internships
covering media production, environmental informatics, and data transformation.
Below you can find a list of my most notable, polished, and published projects. While many of my pet
projects are born from cool ideas or associated with fun topics, most of them have been left in a less
presentable state and primarily served an educational purpose. If you are interested in reading more
about those you can visit my blog, where I talk about most of them in detail, or dig directly into the
respective repositories on GitHub — both are linked above.
On the quest to make general aviation safer, I collaborated with my flight instructor to develop
a tool which assists pilots in assessing the risk involved with overflying populated areas at
low altitudes — as is sometimes required by airspace restrictions.
In order to make satellite tracking more accessible for RF enthusiasts, I brought a state-of-the-art NASA framework to the browser. This allows users to accurately predict when an object of interest passes and thus plan communication more easily from any device!
The list below only contains a selection of my past publications. For a complete list
including some less glamorous learning experiences, please visit my ORCID research profile
linked above.
The previous pages contain a selected list of past experiences and achievements. In case you are
interested in a full chronology, please consult the list of events below. They have been color coded for
your convenience with education in green,
work experience in blue,
and other events in grey.
University — UCD, Dublin
September 2022 – Present
Computer Science Negotiated Learning (M.Sc.)
2022
DevOps engineer — PPI AG, Hamburg
March 2021 – Present
2021
Student parliament member
March 2020 – March 2021
2020
WWDC20 Scholarship
March 2020
Implementation of a playground to teach the schooling behaviour of fish
swarms
WWDC19 Scholarship
March 2019
Design & development of a game based on orbital dynamics
2019
Part-time student — PPI AG, Hamburg
October 2017 – March 2021
2017
University — Nordakademie, Elmshorn
October 2017 – March 2021
Applied Computer Science (B.Sc.)
Internship — PPI AG, Hamburg
August 2016
2016
Software-Challenge Germany
March 2016
Creation of a machine learning based board game player
Internship — Brockmann Consult GmbH, Geesthacht
November 2015
2015
Software-Challenge Germany
March 2015
Creation of a board game player based on alpha-beta pruning
Aviation
Engineering
Archery
