Software Engineer Computer Science

Severin Obertuefer

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OBJECTIVE

Young professional with MSc degree and work experience seeks challenging and

diversified job in the field of computer science.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Python, 5+ years

C#, 3+ years, using LINQ, Entity Framework and WPF

Threading experience in C#, Python and C++

Used to object oriented analysis, design and implementation

WORK EXPERIENCE

Betron AG, Switzerland (e-commerce industry) Aug 2003 present

IT Management & Software Engineer

I built software to automate the mail order business. The most important

pieces were gateways to the e-commerce platform, tools for shipping

preparation and automatic customer notification. Code in C# and IronPython.

I was responsible to set up a flexible and scalable IT infrastructure to handle

the steadily increasing business volume.

Actant AG, Swizerland (financial industry) Jul 2006 Apr 2007

Software Engineer

I designed, implemented and tested fast, multiprocessor scalable and thread-

safe data structures, high performance locks and thread-pools.

I highlighted the importance of data structure alignment and improved

performance through custom memory management. My code was used in the

next generation core architecture. All code in C++.

EDUCATION

MSc in Computer Science 2006 - 2009

ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology), Switzerland

Specialization track Software Engineering, focus on concurrent & parallel

programming, thesis on interval-based parallelism

Visiting Scholarship Jul 2007 Dec 2007

Stanford University, California, United States

I implemented fluid dynamics simulations on GPUs using the CUDA framework.

I considered algorithm and memory optimizations to improve performance and

simplify further use.

I achieved 10 times speedup for selected parts of the example application.

Poster presentation of applications and results at the Supercomputing

Conference 2007 in Reno, NV.

BSc in Computer Science 2003 - 2006

ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology), Switzerland

Mathematics, engineering and systematic problem solving

Core competences in computer science

LANGUAGE SKILLS

Mother tongue is German. Fluent in written and spoken English. Good working

knowledge of French.

ACTIVITIES

I like traveling. I'm perfectly comfortable in a multicultural environment. I lived

abroad for half a year and made lasting friendships.

I enjoy spending time outdoors and working on my dad s farm.

REFERENCES

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