Jakob Herpich
Software Developer at SAP
Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolJakob Herpich is a software developer with 12 years of experience who blends a rigorous academic background in physics and a PhD in astrophysics with seven-plus years building cloud-native solutions at SAP. He specializes in cloud technologies, software extensibility and migration of public cloud customer systems, and has recently applied generative AI to streamline enterprise customizations. Pragmatic and research-driven, he combines strong analytical modeling skills from academia with production-focused engineering practices. Based in Heidelberg, he is passionate about digitalizing infrastructure—energy, transport and public services—to tackle climate and diversity challenges through ethical intelligent solutions. An attendee of KubeCon 2022, Jakob keeps current with cloud-native trends and seeks roles that pair technical impact with societal purpose.
12 years of coding experience
Master of Science (M.Sc.), Astrophysics, 1.1, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Astrophysics, 1.1 at Heidelberg University
German, English
Github Skills (3)
python9
beamer8
latex6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
pynbody/pynbody
Jun 2014 - Jun 2017
N-body and hydro analysis tools for Python
Contributions:12 commits, 9 PRs, 16 pushes in 3 years
python
kubernetes101/kubecon2022
May 2022 - May 2022
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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