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        "name": "Alex Povel",
        "label": "Software Engineer at Tiplu",
        "email": "cv@alexpovel.de",
        "summary": "Highly driven, dependable and people-oriented backend software developer with proficiency in Python, git, Docker, Linux and Windows system administration, as well as the energy systems design and analysis domain. Bilingual (German, English).",
        "location": {
            "city": "Hamburg",
            "countryCode": "DE",
            "address": "Germany"
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                "network": "LinkedIn",
                "username": "alexpovel",
                "url": "https://linkedin.com/in/alexpovel/"
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                "network": "GitHub",
                "username": "alexpovel",
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            "name": "Tiplu GmbH",
            "position": "Software Engineer",
            "startDate": "2022-07-01",
            "highlights": [
                "Test & Domain-Driven Design of a REST API in C# 10 on .NET 6",
                "employed frameworks include EF Core, ASP.NET Core, mediatr (event-driven) and XUnit"
            ],
            "url": "https://tiplu.de/",
            "location": "Hamburg, Germany"
        },
        {
            "name": "Hamburg University of Technology",
            "position": "Postgraduate Researcher",
            "startDate": "2020-01-31",
            "endDate": "2022-06-30",
            "highlights": [
                "estimated, visualized and analyzed energy consumption data using open data sources and a tool chain consisting of Python with pandas, Docker and cloud infrastructure (Azure), among others",
                "administered the research institute's IT infrastructure: server hardware setup and maintenance, (software) process automation using CI/CD methodology as well as Active Directory resource management",
                "drafted and successfully implemented a comprehensive overhaul targeting the entire institute's IT infrastructure, achieving substantial reductions in cost and complexity",
                "helped acquire a multi-million federal research grant and created an Excel tool covering all expenditure planning"
            ],
            "url": "https://www.tuhh.de",
            "location": "Hamburg, Germany"
        },
        {
            "name": "Hamburg University of Technology",
            "position": "Typesetter",
            "startDate": "2019-06-30",
            "endDate": "2019-08-31",
            "highlights": [
                "reworked a script on heating technologies using LaTeX, in preparation for book publishing",
                "spun resulting document into an open-source thesis & book template and reference manual, under a permissive license"
            ],
            "url": "https://github.com/alexpovel/latex-cookbook",
            "location": "Hamburg, Germany"
        },
        {
            "name": "Freelance Photographer",
            "startDate": "2016-03-31",
            "endDate": "2018-07-31",
            "highlights": [
                "held a monthly photography course",
                "operated as a registered business"
            ],
            "url": "https://www.alexpovel.de",
            "location": "Hamburg, Germany"
        },
        {
            "name": "Hamburg University of Technology",
            "position": "Student Tutor",
            "startDate": "2015-05-31",
            "endDate": "2018-07-31",
            "highlights": [
                "topics included: thermodynamics basics, thermodynamic state, cyclic and combustion processes, gas and flow dynamics, multi-phase-systems"
            ],
            "summary": "At the Institute of Engineering Thermodynamics",
            "url": "https://www.tuhh.de",
            "location": "Hamburg, Germany"
        },
        {
            "name": "Hamburg University of Technology",
            "position": "Student Assistant",
            "startDate": "2016-02-28",
            "endDate": "2018-03-31",
            "highlights": [
                "typeset various published books on thermodynamics and fluid mechanics using LaTeX"
            ],
            "summary": "At the Institute of Engineering Thermodynamics",
            "url": "https://www.tuhh.de",
            "location": "Hamburg, Germany"
        },
        {
            "name": "Hamburg University of Technology",
            "position": "Student Tutor",
            "startDate": "2015-05-31",
            "endDate": "2018-02-28",
            "highlights": [
                "tutored the annual, 'major' mechanical design project",
                "examined, analyzed and jointly improved on hundreds of technical drawings"
            ],
            "summary": "At the Institute of Product Development and Mechanical Engineering Design",
            "url": "https://www.tuhh.de",
            "location": "Hamburg, Germany"
        },
        {
            "name": "Hamburg University of Technology",
            "position": "Undergraduate Research Assistant",
            "startDate": "2015-02-28",
            "endDate": "2017-09-30",
            "highlights": [
                "created a data analysis workflow in Python",
                "maintained oil test rigs, used in the evaluation of sealing and lubricant compatibility",
                "prepared and created microscopy imagery"
            ],
            "summary": "At the Institute of Modelling and Computation",
            "url": "https://www.tuhh.de",
            "location": "Hamburg, Germany"
        }
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        {
            "organization": "Eimsbütteler Nachrichten",
            "position": "Staff Photographer",
            "startDate": "2016-09-30",
            "endDate": "2018-04-30",
            "summary": "contributed multiple cover photos and covered the G20 protests in Hamburg",
            "highlights": [],
            "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/72917906"
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        {
            "institution": "Hamburg University of Technology",
            "area": "Energy Systems",
            "studyType": "Master of Science - MS",
            "startDate": "2016-10-31",
            "endDate": "2019-04-30",
            "score": "1.3 - with distinction",
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        },
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            "institution": "Hamburg University of Technology",
            "area": "General Engineering Science",
            "studyType": "Bachelor of Science - BS",
            "startDate": "2012-10-31",
            "endDate": "2016-09-30",
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            "name": "Ultimate Rust Crash Course",
            "date": "2022-08-28",
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            "name": "Python",
            "level": "Expert",
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                "pytest",
                "pydantic",
                "core language"
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            "name": "git",
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                "GitLab",
                "GitHub"
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            "name": "Docker",
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            "name": "Bash",
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            "name": "C#",
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            "keywords": [
                "ASP.NET Core",
                "Entity Framework Core",
                "MediatR",
                "XUnit"
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            "name": "Presentation Skills",
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        {
            "name": "System Administration",
            "level": "Intermediate",
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                "Linux",
                "Hosting",
                "Server Management"
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        {
            "name": "Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)",
            "level": "Proficient",
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                "GitLab CI/CD",
                "GitHub Actions"
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            "name": "Visual Studio Code",
            "level": "Expert"
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            "name": "Linux",
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            "name": "Ansible",
            "level": "Intermediate"
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        {
            "name": "Lua",
            "level": "Intermediate"
        },
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            "name": "Microsoft Excel",
            "level": "Intermediate",
            "keywords": [
                "Excel Data Model",
                "PowerQuery"
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            "name": "LaTeX",
            "level": "Proficient",
            "keywords": [
                "KOMAScript",
                "biblatex",
                "biber",
                "glossaries-extra",
                "minted"
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        {
            "name": "Energy Engineering",
            "level": "Proficient",
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                "heat transfer",
                "thermodynamics",
                "modelling"
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        },
        {
            "name": "Microsoft PowerPoint",
            "level": "Intermediate"
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        {
            "name": "Public Speaking",
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            "language": "English"
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            "fluency": "Native Speaker",
            "language": "German"
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            "name": "LaTeX Cookbook and Thesis Template",
            "startDate": "2019-07-31",
            "summary": "A comprehensive LaTeX template with examples for theses, books and more, employing the 'latest and greatest' (UTF8, glossaries, fonts, ...). The PDF artifact is built using CI/CD.",
            "url": "https://github.com/alexpovel/latex-cookbook/"
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        {
            "name": "betterletter",
            "startDate": "2022-01-31",
            "summary": "A tiny Python typing utility, installable via pip.",
            "url": "https://pypi.org/project/betterletter/"
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        {
            "name": "Hackathon 'Hack dich schlau! - Die lange Nacht der Strompreisprognosen'",
            "startDate": "2022-06-30",
            "summary": "In a team of three, worked towards acquiring & pre-processing data, then training a neural network to predict electricity exchange prices, using Python.",
            "endDate": "2022-06-30"
        },
        {
            "name": "Hackathon 'Häcks on the beach'",
            "startDate": "2020-07-31",
            "summary": "In a team of seven, worked towards a prototype application for visualizing local, live air pollution in a smartphone AR environment. My role was backend development using Python.",
            "endDate": "2020-07-31"
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