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1 </head> <body> <a class="sr-only" href="#main">Skip to content</a> <header> <h1 class="title"> <a href="/">D<span class="accent">.</span></a> </h1> <nav> <a href="/about">About</a> <a href="/blog">Blog</a> <a href="/publications">Publications</a> </nav> </header> <main id="main"><h1>About</h1> <p>I am a computer scientist and software engineer specializing in computer graphics, geometry processing, and physics simulation. I work as a software engineering manager at <a href="https://www.lamresearch.com">Lam Research</a>, developing 3D modeling software for virtual fabrication of semiconductors. I did a PhD in computer science at <a href="https://www.uni-bielefeld.de">Bielefeld University</a>, doing research on shape deformation methods for evolutionary design optimization. In my spare time, I develop an open-source <a href="https://www.pmp-library.org">library</a> for polygon mesh processing.</p> <h2 id="experience">Experience</h2> <div class="cv-container"> <div class="cv-entry">2017–today<br />Lam Research</div> <div> <strong>Software Engineering Manager.</strong> Leading agile teams working on 3D modeling, simulation, and visualization. Leadership role for software design and architecture, defining engineering best practices and standards. People manager for a team of engineers, supporting individual contributors to grow their skills and careers. </div> <div class="cv-entry">2015–2017<br />Coventor</div> <div> <strong>Lead Engineer.</strong> Team lead for the geometry team. Research, design, and implementation of a novel mesh generation pipeline based on Delaunay meshing, resulting in a patent. Requirements engineering with customers and application engineers. Improving development processes and engineering best practices. </div> <div class="cv-entry">2015<br />Coventor</div> <div> <strong>Senior Engineer.</strong> Software development on surface and volume mesh generation from complex volumetric multi-material models. </div> </div> <h2 id="education">Education</h2> <div class="cv-container"> <div class="cv-entry">2009–2015<br />Bielefeld University</div> <div> <strong>PhD, Computer Science.</strong> Research on shape deformation methods for evolutionary design optimization and mesh generation for polygonal finite element methods. Development of a simple and efficient surface mesh data structure and a versatile geometry processing framework. </div> <div class="cv-entry">2002–2009<br />Bielefeld University</div> <div> <strong>MSc, Computer Science.</strong> Focus on computer graphics, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and software engineering. Thesis on polygonal finite element methods. </div> </div> <h2 id="skills">Skills</h2> <div class="cv-container"> <div class="cv-entry">Competencies</div> <div>Geometry processing, computer graphics, scientific computing, simulation, machine learning, software design and architecture, agile development, people management </div> <div class="cv-entry">Languages</div> <div> C++, Python, Rust, Haskell </div> <div class="cv-entry">Libraries</div> <div> STL, Boost, Eigen, PMP, CGAL, VTK, Qt, OpenGL </div> <div class="cv-entry">Tools</div> <div> VS Code, Bash, Git, CMake </div> </div> </main> <footer> © 2026 Daniel Sieger · <a href="/imprint">Imprint</a> · <a href="mailto:[email protected]">Contact</a> · <a href="/atom.xml">RSS</a> </footer> </body> </html>
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