Jan Frieder.

Part of the cranial navigation team, building software used in operating rooms worldwide. Primary stack: C++20, React & TypeScript across backend, frontend, and the company-wide framework.

• Develop EM navigation software, contributing to an ongoing frontend migration to HTML5 with React & TypeScript
• Drive GUI usability approval for multiple applications, working closely with the Usability department from requirements through to sign-off
• Operate within the full medical device release cycle: traceability, product specifications, field bug investigation, and first-hand hospital visits

Research software developer at RWTH Aachen’s Virtual Reality group, prototyping scientific visualization tools in C++, OpenGL, and Unreal Engine 5 across academic research projects and industry partnerships.

• Wrote a custom OpenGL renderer for research on interactive vector field visualization
• Developed scientific visualization applications in Unreal Engine 5 for the group’s multi-node CAVE installation
• Built a Python pipeline to post-process and structurally repair a medical image stack of eye cross-sections for 3D reconstruction
• Led a small team and maintained the CAVE infrastructure

Publications:

• Leveraging BC6H Texture Compression and Filtering for Efficient Vector Field Visualization
• InsitUE - Enabling Hybrid In-situ Visualizations through Unreal Engine and Catalyst