Curriculum Vitæ of Simon Leischnig
Software and Algorithms Engineer
Address: Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 33, 07749, Jena, Germany
Phone: 015209975863
Email: simonjena@gmail.com
GitHub: @simlei
Website: simlei.github.io/hi
Professional Experience
Software and Algorithms Engineer - Spleenlab GmbH
May 2023 - Present
Built algorithms for autonomous systems and robotics. Took a standalone product through its full lifecycle — prototype, branding, customer delivery, and ongoing maintenance — and ported a reference algorithm to C99 with a comprehensive test suite, shipped on spec and within its real-time performance budget.
Project Lead JCrypTool - Esslinger IT Consulting
2019 - 2023
Led core development and DevOps for JCrypTool, an Eclipse RCP / OSGi platform hosting 100+ cryptography plug-ins. Owned the plug-in architecture, release pipeline, and deployment infrastructure through to the v1.0 release.
Software Developer - Cynops GmbH
2009 - 2015
Part-time student role — work on JCrypTool and DevOps.
Publications
A Kernel-based Approach to Learning Contact Distributions for Robot Manipulation Tasks
Kroemer, O.; Leischnig, S.; Luettgen, S.; Peters, J.
Autonomous Robots (AuRo), 2017
A Comparison of Contact Distribution Representations for Learning to Predict Object Interactions
Leischnig, S.; Luettgen, S.; Kroemer, O.; Peters, J.
IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids), 2015
Technical Skills
Expert Level
Additional Expertise
Education
M.Sc. Informatics / Autonomous Systems
Technische Universität Darmstadt
Graduated 2023
Werkstudent — Deutsches Zentrum für Luft- und Raumfahrt (DLR), Oberpfaffenhofen
11 months in 2018; connected M.Sc. thesis completed 2019
2018 – 2019
Year Abroad — Universitat Politècnica de València
Departamento de Sistemas Informáticos y Computación
2015 – 2016
B.Sc. Informatics
Technische Universität Darmstadt
Graduated 2013
Abitur
Carl-Zeiss-Gymnasium Jena
2008
Notable Projects
ManageBash
Manage your dev system. It's about far more than bash....
JCrypTool
I worked on JCrypTool for a long time during my studies; it basically taught me the practical side of project management and writing Java, my first en...
Autonomous Systems Algorithm Development
At Spleenlab GmbH: built algorithms for autonomous systems and robotics, shipped a standalone product end-to-end to external customers, and ported a r...
USB Guitar Teacher
Research project from uni, This project combines music and computing. Using an Arduino, modified a Western guitar for USB connectivity, enabling real-...
Languages
German
Native
English
Professional (C1/C2)
Spanish
B1