Daniel Busch
Founder of AusspracheTrainer.org - Proud owner of o1f.com (use case yet to be found - let me know if you have an O(1) idea)
Education
Technical University of Munich (TUM) (Munich / Augsburg, Germany)
September 2026 – present
Elite Graduate Software Engineering Program (jointly with LMU and
University of Augsburg).
Selective program targeting the top 2% of computer science students.
University of Washington (Seattle, USA)
September 2024 – June 2025
Academic exchange program (1 year); Dean’s List (entire academic year)
Eberhard Karl University of Tübingen (Tübingen, Germany)
October 2022 – July 2026
Bachelor’s degree in Cognitive Science, graduated with distinction.
Thesis: “Heuristic Computation of Agreement Forests Using ILP”
Freiherr-von-Stein-Schule (Frankfurt, Germany)
August 2014 – June 2022
German High School Diploma (Abitur)
Experience
Junior Developer at Auralis Group
November 2025 – present
Worked on several projects involving full-stack development and AWS & Azure deployment. I am currently working on a project at Deutsche Bahn (Data & AI Solutions).
Teaching Assistant (Computer Science) at University of Tübingen
April 2024 – August 2024
I helped students make fewer error 40 when programming in Java.
Junior Developer at BusyLamp (Onit)
June 2022 – March 2024
I wrote an algorithm to classify short descriptions into UTBMS codes leveraging a LLM, which improved accuracy by over 40%.
Junior Developer at LUV Trading UG
January 2021 – October 2021
I did some webscraping on merchant websites.
Projects
AusspracheTrainer.org
A web platform designed to help users improve their pronunciation with interactive audio exercises and progress tracking. Check it out!
ThingsToDoMap: Travel Discovery Site
Building a website that helps discover cultural places and events, inspiring their next trip. The website features articles, photos, and will soon include an automatically curated list of events. Developing a full-stack solution with NextJS and PayloadCMS. Check it out!
Chess2 Browser-Addon
A tool based on the subreddit r/anarchychess that forces users to play en passant if possible and has some other minor features. Check it out!
Technical Skills
Programming Languages & Frameworks: Python (Django, Flask, Selenium), Java (Spring Boot), JavaScript/TypeScript (React, React Native, Next.js, Angular), SQL
Cloud & DevOps: AWS, CloudFormation, Azure, Terraform, Cloudflare, Docker, Nginx, SOPS, CI/CD
Tools: Git, Postman, Sentry, Grafana, Jira, Confluence, Trello, Figma
Awards
PACE (Parameterized Algorithms & Computational Experiments) Challenge (2026)
3rd Place - Heuristic Track
Developed a novel sparse pricing algorithm for a column-generation approach to the Maximum Agreement Forest problem. Co-authoring a paper with Prof. Britta Dorn (University of Tübingen) for submission to LIPIcs.
YFN for Europe: EUHack (2025)
1st Place - 1000€
To achieve better transparency, I co-developed a platform in a team of four that showcases the latest EU parliamentary votes and how representatives cast their ballots.
German Federal Competition for Artificial Intelligence (2021)
1st Place - 1500€
In a team of 3, we developed our own transcription AI, that transcribes audio to IPA and gives feedback on pronunciation. Later, I used it as the foundation to create the AusspracheTrainer.org platform.
I am currently looking for an internship in cs ∈ {backend, ml, research} anywhere in the world (preferably outside of Germany).