Master of Applied Research - Focus on CS, OTH Regensburg (GPA 4.0)

• About 50% course work and 50% work on an individual project
• Courses in CS (e.g. advanced algorithms, modern theoretical CS)
• Courses in interdisciplinary skills (e.g. scientific writing, innovation management)
• Personal research project with focus on parallel runtime systems

Bachelor in Computer Science, OTH Regensburg (GPA 4.0)

• Traditional CS bachelor with focus on software development
• Theoretical courses (e.g. math, theoretical CS, algorithms)
• Practical courses (e.g. databases, software engineering)
• Project work (e.g. web apps, geospatial data analysis, AI for a board game)

General Higher Education Entrance Qualification (GPA 3.6)

• Gymnasium Beilngries, Eichstätt

Master Thesis: Predictable Resource Usage in Work-Stealing Runtime Systems

• Concept and implementation of a work-stealing based parallel programming library in C++
• Focus on static memory usage and predictable execution times

Paper: Accelerating Real-Time Applications with Predictable Work-Stealing
PASA Workshop 2020; 33rd Architecture of Computing Systems – ARCS 2020, Aachen

• Authors: Florian Fritz, Michael Schmid, Jürgen Mottok
• Concept for the work-stealing algorithm used in the master thesis

Paper: Parallel Programming in Real-Time Systems
ARCS Workshop 2019; 32nd Architecture of Computing Systems – ARCS 2019, Copenhagen

• Authors: Michael Schmid, Florian Fritz, Jürgen Mottok
• General thoughts on parallel programming in time critical applications

Bachelor Thesis: Entwicklung einer KI für eine Erweiterung des Spiels Reversi mit Methoden des maschinellen Lernens am Vorbild von AlphaGo Zero

• Adopt the AlphaGo Zero reinforcement learning to a version of the board game Reversi
• Implement the training and execution phase of the AI in python

Technical Employee - Regensburg University of Applied Sciences

• Work related to my research project during my master studies
• Assist doctoral students in their work
• Analysis of existing C++ parallel programming tools with focus latency critical applications
• Prototype implementations of a parallel runtime system in C++
• Fix bug in open source Clang project

Lecturer for a C training - Regensburg University of Applied Sciences

• Held two course days of a multi-weekend C training
• Coordination with other lecturers and preparation of course materials

Intern and Working Student - Vuframe

• General application development at startup company
• Implement and publish customer Apps for Android
• Modularized development of Android apps (internal library management and project generation tools), leading to a platform for automatic app generation
• Extend Ruby on Rails web- and backend-application

Open Space of Media Lab Bayern (Munich)

• Expand technical skills by working on an app together with a fellow student at the open space
• Media Lab provided workspace and two couching hours

MZ Hackathon Regensburg - Won Best Overall and Media Lab Bavaria Award

• Three day hackathon with a team of three - won first place and secondary price
• Prototype a Google home based cooking assistant with interactive instructions and optional visuals on an TV

MZ Hackathon Regensburg - Won Special Award

• Three day hackathon with a team of four - won secondary price
• Prototype an app to connect to other people by automatically organizing group activities

• German - native language
• English - technical/scientific writing and fluid conversation

• Rust - self-taught after master and used in private project
• C++ - used during master, mainly low-level synchronization
• Python - used in bachelor thesis and for data analysis during master
• Java - preferred language at beginning of bachelor, Android development at Vuframe
• Elixir, JavaScript - used for web projects
• Ruby - automatization and Ruby on Rails development at Vuframe

• HTML/CSS - customize layouts and use HTML/CSS component libraries
• SQL - typical database tasks during CS courses and (web-)projects
• CMake, Gradle, Bash - basics for simple projects and automatization
• LaTeX, TikZ - user, creation of scientific documents
• Docker, GitLab CI, Jenkins - basics, simple CI and deployment