Tristan Schulz
Softwareingenieur at Fraunhofer IGD
Darmstadt, Hesse, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolTristan Schulz is a software engineer based in Darmstadt with about 10 years of hands-on experience spanning embedded hardware, systems programming and frontend development. He is fluent in C/C++, C#, Python, Java, Rust, Haskell and JavaScript, favors functional programming for computation-heavy code, and has substantial Angular experience for user-facing projects. Tristan’s background blends university research (compiler construction, massive parallel computing, AI, robotics) with product work—he’s built microcontroller and SoC-based hardware prototypes, including a GStreamer-based video mixer. At Fraunhofer IGD and in open-source contributions to the popular Manim community library he has focused on backend performance, bug fixes and rendering optimizations. Passionate about free software and interdisciplinary product development, he also pursues machine design and RC component development, combining mechanical, electrical and software skills.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Technischen Universität Darmstadt
German, English
Github Skills (7)
curve10
bezier10
python10
manim10
numpy10
opengl9
animation8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
ManimCommunity/manim
May 2022 - Jan 2023
A community-maintained Python framework for creating mathematical animations.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 168 reviews, 16 commits in 8 months
Contributions summary:Tristan primarily contributed to the optimization and bug fixing of the Manim community library. Their work involved correcting missing function definitions, updating deprecated constants, and improving performance by optimizing bezier curve computations and vectorized plotting. The user also addressed issues related to rendering in OpenGL and added functionalities to vector fields. These changes indicate a focus on improving the core functionality and performance of the animation library.
pythonmathmanimanimations
MrDiver/SpeedBot
Aug 2019 - Nov 2020
Contributions:40 commits, 20 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 3 months
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