Ulrich Aschl
Software and Biomedical Engineer
DI Ulrich Aschl
Software & Biomedical Engineer
Career
Personal Projects
Timeframe: Sat Feb 01 2025 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) - now
- Developed and deployed Choir Printservice: a Moodle-integrated sheet music print service for TU Wien Choir. Stack: Flask, Svelte, Typescript, Tailwind, SQLite, Docker Compose; automated PaperCut print server integration via VNC. ~50 active users.
- Continuously built and maintained sympeux.at: portfolio site including tools (pub crawl planner, pitch pipe, poems, water level).
Sabbatical
Timeframe: Wed May 01 2024 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) -
Austrian National Library
Timeframe: Sat Apr 01 2023 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) - Mon Apr 01 2024 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
- Conducted requirements engineering: stakeholder interviews, persona and use case creation.
- Established a monitoring stack using Grafana, Prometheus, OpenTel and Jaeger with Docker Compose, deployed with Gitlab CI/CD.
- Prototyped APIs using Flask, FastAPI and Java Quarkus.
Institute for Molecular Biology GmbH, Vienna Biocenter
Timeframe: Thu Sep 01 2022 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) -
- Developed a feature for data import from NCBI for academic data analysis software HiCognition, written in Vue2 and Flask.
- Reduced coupling of components by refactoring database (PostgreSQL and sqlalchemy) and control layer on backend.
TU Wien, ICC Water & Health, Farnleitner Lab
Timeframe: Fri Nov 01 2019 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) - Fri May 01 2020 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
- Took ownership of the DNA sequencing data stemming from our group's experiments.
- Successfully selected candidate molecules for testing, by developing data analysis pipelines (Python, R, bash, bioinformatics tools).
- Publication in Nature Scientific Reports: Kolm C, Cervenka I, Aschl UJ, et al. "DNA aptamers against bacterial cells can be efficiently selected by a SELEX process using state-of-the art qPCR and ultra-deep sequencing." Sci Rep 10, 20917 (2020). doi:10.1038/s41598-020-77221-9 .
Fritz Holter GmbH
Timeframe: Wed May 01 2013 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) -
- Integrated the final year project of HTL, a stock taking feature written in C#, into their software stack.
- Handled tickets that ranged from bug fixing to client requests.
Red Cross
Timeframe: Wed Dec 01 2010 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) - Mon Apr 01 2013 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
- Volunteered from 2010 to 2012.
Docolution GmbH
Timeframe: Fri Jul 01 2011 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) -
- Wrote a wrapper for a command line tool using Java Swing.
Education
TU Wien
Timeframe: Sun Oct 01 2017 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) - Wed Dec 01 2021 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
- Mathematical & Computational Biology Branch.
- Thesis in data analysis of ligand binding experiments, involving clusterings, ssDNA folding simulation, DNA alignment.
TU Wien
Timeframe: Tue Oct 01 2013 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) - Thu Jun 01 2017 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
- ERASMUS-semester in Jyväskylä, Finland.
- Thesis in answer set programming, implementing an algorithm in C++.
HTL Grieskirchen
Timeframe: Mon Oct 01 2007 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) - Sun Jul 01 2012 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)