Efficient Edit Distance

Last updated on Feb 21, 2026
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Pthreads C Parallel computation Smith-Waterman Edit distance
Dr. Lukas Pfannschmidt
Dr. Lukas Pfannschmidt
Tech Lead, Machine Learning Platform

Tech Lead of the Machine Learning Platform team at Trade Republic, supporting FinCrime. Research background (PhD) in machine learning with prior work in high‑performance computing. I focus on platform strategy for ML systems, shipping reliable ML/analytics pipelines, reducing latency and cost, and tightening feedback loops between models, data pipelines and observability.