Tobias Heuer
Member Of Technical Staff 2 at eBay
Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
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Top SchoolTobias Heuer is a Staff Software Engineer at eBay with 11 years of experience, blending research with production-scale engineering. His core focus is scalable shared-memory algorithms and hypergraph partitioning, evidenced by his GitHub bio and work on distributed databases and supply-chain systems. He bridges academia and industry, having been a Doctoral Researcher and Postdoctoral Research Scientist at KIT, working in the group of Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Peter Sanders on scalable balanced hypergraph partitioning. In industry, he contributed to SAP Vora’s distributed database components, designing an external memory multi-versioned primary key structure and boosting OLTP throughput by up to 4x via hypergraph-based repartitioning. He currently holds multiple senior roles at eBay—Staff Software Engineer and, since 2025, Member of Technical Staff 2—reflecting rapid progression in scalable systems. Based in Karlsruhe, Germany, his work spans theory to practice, delivering efficient algorithms on today’s massively parallel systems.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
with honors, with honors at Karlsruher Institut für Technologie (KIT)
German, English
Github Skills (27)
graph-algorithms10
parallel10
python10
graphs10
partition10
graph10
partitioning10
evolutionary-algorithms10
hypergraph10
tbb10
multilevel10
parallel-computing10
shared-memory10
bisection10
cpp10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
kittobi1992/ProblemSolving
May 2015 - Mar 2019
Contributions:164 commits, 1 PR, 154 pushes in 3 years 10 months
icpcsolved-problemsproblemsarchiveuva
kittobi1992/kahypar
Feb 2017 - Feb 2018
Contributions:118 pushes in 11 months
hypergraphpartitioninghypergraph-partitioningkarlsruhe
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