matthiaslinder.com

curriculum vitae

personal information

name:	Matthias Linder
born:	April 02, 1991 in Duisburg, Germany
email:

current occupation

Senior Software Engineer on Google Docs at Google Inc. in New York City (October 2014 - now).

educational background

September 2013 - August 2014

Studied for a MSc in Artificial Intelligence at the University of Edinburgh.

October 2010 - May 2013

Studied for an Applied Computer Sciences (Angewandte Informatik) Bachelor Degree at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany.

past work experience and education

May 2013 - September 2013

Third internship at Google Inc. in New York, NY, as a Software Development Engineer in the Google Docs/Drive backend team.

August 2012 - June 2013

Working at the Network Embedded Systems Faculty of the University Duisburg-Essen as an IT student trainee.

October 2012 - February 2013

Working at the University Duisburg-Essen as a teaching assistant for 'Computability and Complexity' class.

April 2012 - July 2012

Second internship at Google Inc. in New York, NY, as a Software Development Engineer in the API development team. Implemented Subscription support for the Google Client library for Java on Google AppEngine.

May 2011 - September 2011

Internship at Google Inc. in New York, NY, as a Software Development Engineer in the API development team. I have been working on the Google Client library for .NET, which is a generic client library for .NET that can be used with many different Google APIs.

August 2010 - April 2011

Worked as an IT student trainee at the Sozialassistenz in fields of webdesign and database management.

June 2001 - July 2010

Education for the university entrance qualification (called "Abitur" in Germany) at the Franz-Haniel-Gymnasium in Duisburg, Germany.

special qualifications and achievements

28. Bundeswettbewerb für Informatik (bwinf), 2010

Federal Competition for Computer Science. Awarded pricewinner (2nd price) in the final round, 1st price in the first two rounds. Please have a look at this page for further information.

UDE Stipend, 2012/13

Stipend in the UDE/NRW scholarship program (the so called "Deutschlandstipendium") since October 2012.

publications

An Introduction to Acoustic-based Localization Techniques using off-the-shelf Hardware
Linder, M.
Survey paper. Network Embedded Systems Faculty, University of Duisburg-Essen, January 2013.

A System for Audio-based Distributed Speaker Detection
Linder, M.
Bachelor thesis. Network Embedded Systems Faculty, University of Duisburg-Essen, May 2013.

projects

Please have a look at the projects page for further information on this subject.

additional skills

driving license:	B (car)
spoken languages:	German (mother tongue) English (fluently) Obtained the Certificate in Advanced English issued by the University of Cambridge in June 2009
programming skills:	C# (since 2005) Java (since 2010) C w/ microcontrollers Python (basics), i386 asm (basics) [..]
multimedia skills:	The GIMP OpenGL (in combination with OpenTK) DirectX Cg Shader language
web development:	HTML, CSS, JavaScript PHP, ASP.NET, Google AppEngine Go Lang MySQL nc
binding:	Tyrolia Attack 13
operating systems:	Ubuntu 1x.x, Arch Linux Windows 7, XP, 10
publishing:	LaTeX