Lasse Schuirmann

Background

About

After founding the coala Open Source project with more than a thousand contributors, Lasse founded several startups and a nonprofit, getting his first entrepreneurial expertise. With VIPERdev.io he is truly becoming a serial entrepreneur: the company gets innovative digital products for their clients to the market within 8 weeks each.

Work Experience

Software Developer,
Aug, 2009 - 2010-04-31
Integrated Degree Student,
Aug, 2012 - Jan, 20163 years 6 months
CEO,
Jan, 2017 - 2019-04-31
Founder and CEO,
Dec, 2015 - Present
VIPERdev brings new products to the market - in 8 weeks each.

Skills

Workshops/Talks/Keynotes
FOSDEM

openSUSE Conference

GUADEC

LinuxWochen

Various PyCons

For Clients
Software Development
Open Source Development Processes

Community Development

Python

Continuous Integration

Code Quality

Education

General Certificate of Education, , Albert Schweitzer Gymnasium
Aug, 2006 - Aug, 2012
Computer Science and Engineering, Bachelor, Hamburg University of Technology
Oct, 2012 - Nov, 2015

Awards

Second Place and Two Special Awards , Jugend Forscht
Awarded on: Mar 01, 2009
As the youngest participant of the city wide level of Jugend Forscht.
Special Award for the Best Interdisciplinary Work , Jugend Forscht
Awarded on: Apr 01, 2011
Delegate of the city Hamburg , International Mathematical Tournament of Towns
Awarded on: Aug 01, 2011
Google Summer of Code Stipend , Google Inc./GNOME
Awarded on: Mar 01, 2014
For the project 'Boxes - Hardening sprint, express installation improvements & ISO download'.

Volunteer Work

Founder and Maintainer, GSoC Mentor and Admin, coala
Jan, 2013 - Present
coala provides a common command-line interface for linting and fixing all your code, regardless of the programming languages you use.
Contributor, GSoC Mentor and Admin, GNOME
Feb, 2014 - Jan, 2018

Interests

Singing
BaritonePianoViolinGuitar
Music (Various Instruments)
Triathlon
Marathon (3:57)Half-Marathon (1:37)

References

Stanislav Komanec, Team Lead at Skypicker
Viper Development brought new ideas into our system. Their empathy and leadership skills have persuaded developers to want to give up legacy code and difficult habits.
Dmitry Trofimov at PyCon DE, Team Lead at PyCharm
This social talk was the best I have heard in all the conferences this year! Being passionately, very practical and insightful - a rare combination.
Prof. Dr. Christoph Ihl, Hamburg Technical University
Highly competent and efficient. Very smooth to work with.