Denis Maxheimer

Dept. of Water Resources and Environmental Modeling, CULS, Prague, Czechia

Began as a course project; invited to continue as a paid engineer on the department’s environmental monitoring platform.

• Designed and maintained a PostgreSQL database consolidating environmental sensor and public API data from multiple sources
• Built Python ingestion services that automatically retrieved, validated, and persisted data, with duplicate detection and quality checks
• Developed a full-stack web application (Django backend, Vue.js frontend) for data access and visualisation
• Deployed and operated services on Kubernetes with Django, PostgreSQL, Celery, and Redis
• Built a maintenance reporting system used by the research team to track sensor fleet health

Dept. of Water Resources and Environmental Modeling, CULS, Prague, Czechia

• Researched and implemented HAN (Holistic Attention Network) for single-image super-resolution
• Trained the model on the project’s planetary imagery dataset and evaluated resolution improvement
• Owned the training and evaluation pipeline using PyTorch, OpenCV, and NumPy

Dept. of Water Resources and Environmental Modeling, CULS, Prague, Czechia

• Performed curation and preprocessing of planetary imagery datasets for downstream machine learning use
• Rehired by the department the following year based on performance

ABV Saarbrucken, Germany

Part-time role held continuously while relocating to Germany, completing German language certification, and pursuing an MSc full-time.

University of Mannheim, Germany

• Coursework: Large Language Models & Agents, Generative Software Engineering, Data Mining, Web Mining, Machine Learning, Large Scale Database Management, Advanced Methods in Text Analytics
• Six-month team project: Evaluation on Live Generated Benchmarks, a methodology for reducing benchmark contamination in LLM evaluation

Abendakademie Mannheim, Germany

• Completed with certified B1 proficiency

Czech University of Life Sciences, Prague, Czechia

• Specialisation in Informatics: data structures, storage, and large-scale data handling
• Thesis: Development of a Web Application for Air Quality Monitoring in the Czech Republic, grade 2 (very good)