Florian Biermann

Software Engineer, PhD in Computer Science

Currently

Tech lead and Lead Software Engineer at SimCorp and part-time lecturer at the IT University of Copenhagen.

Overview

Object-oriented and functional programming; weak memory models; concurrency and parallel programming.

Currently C#, F#, OCaml, Emacs Lisp

Previously Java, C++, Python, Ruby, Racket

Employment

2023-now IT University, Copenhagen, Denmark

• Part-time lecturer for “Advanced Programming”
• Functional programming in Scala
• Covers the first five-six lectures of the course

2018-now SimCorp, Copenhagen, Denmark

• Lead Software Developer, Tech Lead
• Planning business features and enablers
• Onboarding and mentoring new colleagues
• Key projects:
  • Inventing an API for OTC instruments
  • Implementing Specflow to allow business testers to write integration tests
  • Full re-write of the Trade Manager importer flow
  • Boostrapping of the OTC web API from the Trade Manager importer
  • Mentoring master students during their industry thesis
• C#, OCaml, F#

2014-2015 IT University, Copenhagen, Denmark

• Research assistant
• Key projects:
  • Building a gaze-tracking enabled, interactive LEGO construction manual
  • Running HCI experiments
  • Teaching assistant for “Practical Parallel and Concurrent Programming”
• Java, F#

2013-2014 Medial Insight A/S, Copenhagen, Denmark

• Student programmer
• C++, Ruby

Education

2015-2018 IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark

• PhD in Computer Science
• Teaching assistant for “Practical Parallel and Concurrent Programming”
• Exchange at The University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS)
• Dissertation: “Data-Parallel Spreadsheet Programming”
• Supervised by Prof. Peter Sestoft

2012-2014 IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark

• M.Sc. in Software Engineering
• Thesis: “Connected Set Filtering on Shared Memory Multiprocessors”
• Supervised by Prof. Peter Sestoft

2010-2011 Art Institute of Boston, Boston, USA

• Exchange student

2008-2011 University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany

• B.Sc. in Digital Media

Publications

2018 Puncalc: Task-Based Parallelism and Speculative Reevaluation in Spreadsheets.

• with Alexander Asp Bock
• HLPP ‘18 and The Journal of Supercomputing

Rewriting High-Level Spreadsheet Structures into Higher-Order Functional Programs

• with Wensheng Dou and Peter Sestoft
• PADL ‘18

2017 Quad Ropes: Immutable, Declarative Arrays with Parallelizable Operations

• with Peter Sestoft
• ARRAY ‘17

2016 Declarative Parallel Programming in Spreadsheet End-User Development

• Technical report

Wrist-worn Pervasive Gaze Interaction

• with John Paulin Hansen, Haakon Lund, Emilie Møllenbach, Sebastian Sztuk and Javier San Agustin
• ETRA ‘16.

2015 A Gaze Interactive Textual Smartwatch Interface

• with John Paulin Hansen, Janus Aksø Madsen, Morten Jonassen, Haakon Lund, Javier San Agustin and Sebastian Sztuk
• UbiComp ‘15

A GazeWatch Pototype

• with John Paulin Hansen, Emilie Møllenbach, Haakon Lund, Javier San Agustin, Sebastian Sztuk
• MobileHCI ‘15

2012 The Animation Loop Station: Near Real-Time Animation Production

• with Benjamin Walther-Franks, Nikolaas Steenbergen and Rainer Malaka
• ICEC ‘12