Tjark Sievers

Physicist turned developer. Currently working as a software engineer at altona diagnostics.

Employment

    • since 09/2025
    • Software Application Engineer, altona diagnostics (Hamburg)
    • 11/2021 - 03/2024
    • Student employee, PHYSnet, University of Hamburg (Hamburg)
    • 05/2019 - 09/2021
    • IT support, 3S/HiTeC e.V. (Hamburg)
    • 09/2017 - 08/2018
    • Volunteer service in culture and education, Musikakademie Alteglofsheim (Alteglofsheim)

Education

    • 05/2025
    • M.Sc. Physics, University of Hamburg (Hamburg)
      • 4/2024 - 7/2024: Stay at Uppsala University
    • Final grade: passed with distinction
    • 07/2022
    • B.Sc. Physics, University of Hamburg (Hamburg)
    • Final grade: 1.47
    • 07/2017
    • Abitur, Werner-Heisenberg-Gymnasium (Heide)
    • Final grade: 1.5

Projects

  • quant-met (Python)
    github.com/Ruberhauptmann/quant-met
    • Software package to study superconductivity in flat-band and multiband lattice systems
    • Used to run parallelized parameter scans on the PHYSnet compute cluster
    • Fully tested with extensive unit and regression tests
  • saboga (Python, FastAPI, MongoDB, React, TypeScript)
    saboga.tjarksievers.de
    • Full-stack web app for exploring data from BoardGameGeek
    • Collects and analyzes data on ~30,000 ranked games and ~9 million historic user ratings
    • Backend built with FastAPI and MongoDB for efficient data ingestion and querying
    • Frontend built with React for data exploration

Technical Skills

  • Databases: MongoDB, MariaDB/MySQL
  • Dev ops: Docker, GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions, Ansible, Grafana
  • Languages: Python, C++, Bash
  • Web development: Django, FastAPI, HTML/CSS, React