Alexey Mints: astrophysicist and scientific software developer.

Studies:

1989-1991: school N152, St.Petersburg, Russia
1991-1996: State Gymnasium (school N199) by the State Russian Museum, St.Petersburg, Russia
1996-1998: Lyceum 239 with extensive learning of Physics and Mathematics , St.Petersburg, Russia
1998-2003: Saint-Petersburg State University , faculty of Mathematics and Mechanics , department of Astronomy
2003: Diploma thesis
2003-2005: PhD student in Saint-Petersburg State University, faculty of Mathematics and Mechanics, department of Astronomy
2005-2006: DAAD stipendiat at Astronomisches Rechen-Institut , Heidelberg, Germany
2006-2008: PhD student in Saint-Petersburg State University, faculty of Mathematics and Mechanics, department of Astronomy
22/04/2008: PhD examination passed!

2003-2005: Half-time developer at "Business consulting, Saint - Petersburg" Ltd.
2006-2008: Full-time developer (since 2007 - senior developer) at "Business consulting, Saint - Petersburg" Ltd.
2008: Half-time programmer in the Astronomical Institute of Saint-Petersburg State University .
2009-2010: Postdoc at the University of Bielefeld, IMEM project .
2011: Full-time developer at Andromeda
2011: Postdoc at Astronomisches Rechen-Institut , Heidelberg, Germany
2012-2013: Postdoc at Jacobs university , Bermen, Germany and later in Sternwarte Hamburg as a member of LOFAR project
2013-2015: Postdoc at AIP, Potsdam as a member of ARCHES/XMM project
2015-2019: Postdoc at MPS, Göttingen as a member of SAGE group
2019-: Postdoc at AIP, Potsdam Gaia DPAC development team (SIF crowded fields image processing)

Programming languages: Fortran (77/90/95, Win/Linux, different compilers, OpenMP/MPI/GPU), Python, Java, JavaScript, Bash/fish, Visual Basic, Ruby
Markup/web: LaTeX, XML/XSLT, HTML/CSS
Databases: PostgreSQL, SQLite, MS SQL Server, Informix

UniDAM (github) - Unified tool for Distance, Age and Mass estimation (for stars) UniDAM data page .
Lookup (github) - quick lookup information on a star in a variety of sources (Vizier, VSA, ESO archives)
tab_calc - general purpose tool for ASCII table processing
Multiplot - tool to plot data from multiple files in one line
join_num - linux "join" tool clone with numeric-join support
average_files - average several files line-by-line
IMEM (Interplanetary MEteoroid Model) + IMEM-GUI.
FITS/VOTable to SQL converter
Tool to check if a position is covered by MOC map