Tommy Breslein
Numerical astrophysics
=> System admin
=> Software engineer
About me
I'm a software engineer with a physics background, based in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany.
The two most important things to know about me are my passion and my background. This passion was ignited during my physics undergrad. I finished that + my master's degree, worked in research for a couple of years, then as an admin for two years, and now as a software engineer since May 2023.
I love diving into the nitty gritty: Figuring out how to architecture something elegantly to combine extensibility, robustness, and performance; I can spend days on that without ever getting bored.
Apart from the obvious problem solving skills, my background allowed me to get a handle on a bunch of technologies: Git, Docker, Ansible, CI with GitLab, Linux administration, slurm, a bunch of programming languages and their respective toolchains, ...
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