Severin Dicks
Product Architect at Helmholtz Munich
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolSeverin Dicks is a Product Architect at NVIDIA and a computational biologist with five years of experience bridging neuroscience research and GPU-accelerated bioinformatics. He combines a strong academic background in biology (RWTH Aachen) and PhD-era research in neurophysiology and transcriptomics with hands-on engineering roles at Charité, Helmholtz Munich, and the Max Delbrück Center. At NVIDIA he focuses on healthcare tooling and performance engineering for single-cell sequencing, contributing core development to scverse and projects like rapids-singlecell that bring GPU speedups to bioinformatics pipelines. He is skilled at optimizing end-to-end analysis workflows and turning complex research questions into production-ready, high-throughput solutions. Based in Munich, he uniquely blends domain expertise in neuronal activity signatures with systems-level software design for scalable scientific computing. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic problem-solver who moves projects from experimental code to performant, maintainable products.
5 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doktor der Philosophie, Biology, Doktor der Philosophie, Biology at The University of FreiburgMaster of Science - MS, Biologie, Master of Science - MS, Biologie at RWTH Aachen University
Github Skills (97)
similarity-search10
python10
nearest-neighbors10
spatial-transcriptomics10
transcriptomics10
gpu10
cudnn10
clustering10
nvrtc10
image-analysis10
cusparse10
cublas10
statistics10
machine-learning-algorithms10
numpy10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Intron7/cuml
Jul 2023 - May 2026
cuML - RAPIDS Machine Learning Library
Contributions:59 pushes, 6 branches in 2 years 11 months
Intron7/alpha_viewer
Mar 2022 - Jan 2023
Class to view Alphafold models
Contributions:7 releases, 44 commits, 2 PRs in 9 months
alphafoldmachine-learning
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