Sven Borghardt
Vice President Global Supply Chain at AIXTRON SE
Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolSven Borghardt is a supply chain and operations leader with a Ph.D. in physics who now serves as Vice President Global Supply Chain at Aixtron, bringing nine years of cross-disciplinary experience in semiconductor strategy and operations. He transitioned from a hands-on research background—including stints at Stanford and EPFL—to consulting as an Associate Partner at McKinsey, where he advised OEMs on procurement, footprint and supply chain optimization. Known for translating deep technical understanding of semiconductor devices into pragmatic supply-chain solutions, he has a track record of scaling operations to support fast innovation cycles. He also contributes to scientific open-source tooling, having developed instrument drivers for the widely used microsoft/QCoDeS framework, reflecting a comfort with both lab-scale hardware integration and enterprise supply networks. Based in Aachen, he blends academic rigor with commercial execution to de-risk complex semiconductor supply chains globally.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D. Physics, Ph.D. Physics at RWTH Aachen UniversityErasmus Exchange Physics, Erasmus Exchange Physics at EPFLColegio Nueva ConcepciónAbitur, Abitur at Emsland-Gymnasium Rheine
German, English, Spanish, French
Github Skills (6)
develop10
instrumentation10
driver10
data-acquisition10
qcc10
python10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/Qcodes
Mar 2019 - Apr 2019
Modular data acquisition framework
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 5 PRs, 7 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Sven primarily contributed to the development of instrument drivers within the QCoDeS framework. Their work involved implementing drivers for specific scientific instruments, such as the Andor DU401 and Gentec Maestro, and creating example notebooks to demonstrate their usage. These drivers facilitate data acquisition and control for experiments, focusing on connecting and interacting with devices. The user's changes included adding parameters, functions and addressing various instrument-specific communication protocols and features, ensuring the integration of new hardware within the experimental environment.
data-acquisitiondata-aquisitionphysics
SvenBo90/Py2DSpectroscopy
May 2017 - Mar 2019
Contributions:1 release, 31 commits, 27 pushes in 1 year 10 months
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