Wolfram Schulte

About Wolfram Schulte

Engineering and research manager with over 25 years of experience at Facebook and Microsoft, including general management of mid size organizations, software tool and service development and operations, research in software engineering, formal methods and programming languages, strategy.Contributions to Microsoft\'s and Facebook\'s programming languages (C#, SQL, Thrift), runtimes (multi-threading, streaming), privacy and correctness analyzers and software build and test tools.Recipient of the 2016 Harlan D. Mills Award for “Research and research leadership contributions leading to major theoretical and practical advances in software verification”.Until 7/2021 senior software engineer at Facebook\'s data infrastructure, co-responsible for a new privacy aware programming model for data products, a new streaming and PyTorch preprocessing runtime. Until 9/2016, managed TSE, Microsoft’s main investment into building a single world class engineering system, addressing everything from code review, via build, test, and program analysis, to engineering insights.Until 6/2012, managed RiSE, one of the world’s top software engineering research groups. Primarily focused on research strategy while also working on new areas in browsers, data parallel computing, and software design.Prior to RiSE, focus on research and development in multi-core programming, program verification and analysis, and automatic testing.

Experience

1. Cofounder, CTO at Sdf Labs

   Sdf Labs

   Apr 2022 — Present · Seattle, WA, US

   Better data by design - SDF is a multi-dialect SQL compiler and static analyzer. With minimal user guidance, SDF automatically identifies problematic code in your warehouse, ranging from misuse of data to data leaks! Using SDF saves developers valuable time, reduces enterprise governance costs, and, most importantly, ensures that consumers\' private data remains safe and secure.

Education

• Technische Universität Berlin

  Dr. Ing. (PhD), Computer Science

• Technische Universität Berlin

  Diplom Informatiker (M.S.), Computer Science

  1981 — 1987

• Technische Universität Berlin

  Doktor Ingenieur (PhD), Computer Science

  1987 — 1992

• Ulm University

  Habilitation (2nd. Phd.), Computer Science

  1993 — 1999

Skills

• Programming Languages
• Scalability
• Software Engineering
• C#
• .net
• Visual Studio
• Distributed Systems
• Algorithms
• Software Development
• Python
• Thought Leadership
• Java
• Artificial Intelligence
• Software Quality Assurance
• Change Management
• High Performance Computing
• C
• Programming
• Databases
• Agile Methodologies
• Functional Specifications
• C++
• Hadoop
• Technical Leadership
• Software Verification
• Cloud Computing
• Computer Science
• Software Design
• Testing
• Strategic Leadership
• Object Oriented Design
• Perl
• Machine Learning
• System Architecture
• Big Data
• Team Leadership