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M.Sc. Materials Science and Simulation
Ruhr-University Bochum · Bochum, Germany
- Key coursework: simulation methods, materials informatics, parallel and scientific computing.
- Expected completion: September 2027.
Open to working-student roles
Hi, I'm
Rofi Nouval Maulana , Software Engineer
Software Engineer
M.Sc. student, Materials Science and Simulation
I work on full-stack systems, DevOps, AI applications, materials informatics.
Bochum, Germany
Software Engineer at HUMAT
About
I'm an M.Sc. student in Materials Science and Simulation at Ruhr-University Bochum, with a background in metallurgical and materials engineering.
I have over two years of industry experience in software engineering across full-stack systems, DevOps and AI applications, combined with research experience in machine learning.
My focus is on applying computational methods and materials informatics to materials problems.
At a glance
- Based in
- Bochum, Germany
- Studying
- M.Sc. Materials Science and Simulation, Ruhr-University Bochum
- Working
- Software Engineer (part-time) at HUMAT, remote
- Focus
- Data science · Materials informatics
- Availability
- Approx. 20 hours per week · Ruhr area or remote
Experience
Over two years of industry experience in software engineering across full-stack systems, DevOps and AI applications.
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Part-timeSoftware Engineer
HUMAT · Fort Worth, Texas, USA · Remote
- Continuing development and operations work part-time alongside full-time M.Sc. study.
- Maintaining CI/CD and deployment infrastructure: GitHub Actions workflows, SSH deploy keys, Docker Compose and VPS deployment.
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Full-timeSoftware Engineer
HUMAT · Fort Worth, Texas, USA · Remote
- Built and integrated REST APIs (Node.js) connecting external data sources (FEMA, National Weather Service) into a normalised ingestion layer.
- Built the serving infrastructure for AI-based triage and categorisation of humanitarian incident reports, and evaluated and selected the underlying models.
- Established CI/CD pipelines; containerised and deployed services in Docker and Kubernetes environments.
- Built the frontend in Next.js, including Keycloak/OIDC authentication and cloud object storage integration.
Education
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B.Eng. Metallurgical and Materials Engineering
Universitas Indonesia · Depok, Indonesia
- Exchange semester: The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia (Feb to Jul 2023), Materials Engineering.
- Bachelor's thesis: artificial neural network modelling and equation derivation for predicting martensite start transformation temperatures in Cu-Al-Mn shape memory alloys, validated on Cu-24.12Al-3.13Mn and Cu-25.92Al-3.6Mn (at.%).
Projects
Course project · Parallel and Scientific Computing · Summer semester 2026
Parallel K-Means Clustering in Fortran (MPI)
- Implemented K-means clustering in Fortran using MPI.
- Compared two parallelisation strategies: independent parallel restarts and data-parallel execution of a single run.
- Determined the optimal cluster count using the elbow method via a serial parameter study over k.
- Fortran
- MPI
- K-means
- Parallel computing
Skills
Programming languages
- Python
- JavaScript
- Fortran
- Bash
- SQL
Machine learning
- PyTorch
- TensorFlow
- Scikit-learn
- Deep Learning
Infrastructure & DevOps
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- CI/CD (GitHub Actions)
- Git
- AWS
- DigitalOcean
Web & full-stack
- Node.js
- Next.js
- REST APIs
- Keycloak/OIDC
Focus areas
- Materials informatics
- Data science
- Materials simulation
- Parallel computing (MPI)
Languages
- IndonesianNative
- EnglishC1
- GermanB1
Certifications & courses
Full Stack Software Developer AssessmentIBM
Supervised Machine Learning: Regression and ClassificationStanford Online / Coursera
The Complete Web Developer: Zero to MasteryUdemy
Extracurricular
Member, Research and Development Department (voluntary)
Association of Indonesian Students in Germany (PPI Jerman)
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