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Isaak is an ETH Zürich Mechanical Engineer with an MBA from IMD, Switzerland. His research, software, training and consulting work builds on three decades of experience in using computers and programming to turbocharge products, services, and operating business models. An avid fan of open-source software and self-hosting, an early adopter of Linux since 1997, and a relentless tinkerer with NetBSD and FreeBSD, Isaak has worked with Fortran (77, 90), MATLAB, GNU Octave and Mathematica for scientific simulations, C for mobile robotics, basic C++ for refactoring proprietary FEA post-processing code, and a lot of Python for engineering optimization, neural networks and ensembles, machine learning, Monte Carlo simulations, CAD automation, and FEA and CFD model generation. He has also worked with PHP for web-based software and websites, Go for simple tasks, as well as built REST APIs for machine learning predictions of engineered components and the natural-language processing of web-scraped data, and REST APIs with simple web UIs for managing internal and customer-facing processes of an industrial equipment trading business.

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