Lovis Schultze
I am a coder with compassion. I believe in problem solving and caring for other people. These two traits are present in everything I do.
I am energetic to a fault and I love to throw myself into projects, especially when I get to rapidly learn and develop new skills.
Skills
Coding
- General curiosity in breaking things and building things
- Supercharged learner
- Desiger of engaging user experiences
- BDD, TDD, agile
- Ruby, Rails, Sinatra, JavaScript, HTML & CSS
- Rspec, Jasmine
- Python 3, Django, Selenium
- Scheme, SICP
Empathy
Empathy is my strongest skill. I can understand people and help them understand themselves better. I love facilitating a postive environment with my colleagues and I am good at de-escalating conflicts.
Communication
I live for good communication. I am a practitioner of Nonviolent Communication and I am very dedicated to staying truthful. I have no problems admitting failure.
Rationality
I always try to make sense of things and I put a lot of effort into debiasing myself. I have experience with Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, decision making and choice architecture.
- I opted to accelerate my career by doing a coding bootcamp before finishing university.
- I did 12 days of advanced training at the Center for Applied Rationality.
- I read and worked through 10+ books on behavioral psychology.
Education
Makers Academy (04.08.2014 to 24.10.2014)
That is where I learned most of my coding skills.
Eberhar Karls University Tübingen (01.04.2014 to 31.07.2014)
I studied one semester of bio-informatics.
Robert-Bosch-Gymansium Gerlingen (2006 to 2013)
That was my high school.
Personal Interest
Effective Altruism
I am very passionate about Effective Altruism, a movement that tries to find the most impactful way of improving the world through research and data.
- I want to make the world a better place and use my problem solving mindset for doing good on a bigger scale.
- I pledged to donate over 10% of my income to charity.
- I helped organize the EA Global Oxford conference with over 300 attendees.
Football
I was a football referee through most of my time in high school. This taught me a number of valuable skills:
- High pressure decision making
- Confidence in my decisions in the face of people who disagree with me
- Keeping a cool head in uncomfortable situations
Languages
I am fluent in both German and English.
Contact Information
e-mail: nineinchnade@gmail.com