Dr. Jonathan Decker
Göttingen, Germany
Email: inbox@dr-decker.example.science
Current Position
2022–today | Scientific Employee, Georg-August-University, Göttingen
Working with Prof. Dr. Julian Kunkel in his High-Performance Storage (HPS) research group. Handling teaching efforts and leading research works. Close cooperation with the GWDG.
Areas of Specialization
Applied Computer Science; Software System Design; HPC & Cloud Convergence; AI-Inference Platforms; Serverless Cloud Computing
Completed Projects
Chat AI/SAIA
Private LLM focused inference platform that bridges HPC and cloud. Contributed the initial implementation of the backend scheduler written in Python.
https://github.com/gwdg/chat-ai | https://github.com/gwdg/saia-hub
CIARC
Finalist submission to the ESA third Computer In A Room Challenge (2024-2025). Contributed driver software for a simulated satellite written in async Python.
https://github.com/LolSayna/CIARC
PykeBot2
Web-scraper Discord bot written in Python with concurrent (async) control flows.
https://github.com/Twalord/PykeBot2
Ironik
CLI tool for deploying Kubernetes cluster on OpenStack via Rancher.
https://gitlab-ce.gwdg.de/jdecker/ironik
Skills
- Programming Languages: Python, Java, C, Git, LaTeX
- Technologies: Kubernetes, Container, Shell, Rancher, OpenStack, DokuWiki
- Operating Systems: Linux, Windows
- Languages: German, English
- Teaching: Scientific Writing, Scientific Presentations, Supervision of Final Theses, Organization of Courses
Appointments
2025–2026 | Speaker of the doctoral student representatives and doctoral student representative of the faculty of mathematics and computer science, Georg-August-University Göttingen
Representing the interests of the 2.500 doctoral students in various commissions, the mathematical and computer science faculty meetings and the university senate.
https://www.uni-goettingen.de/en/571906.html
2019–2022 | Honorary E-Sports Trainer, ASC Göttingen
Organizing and conducting training sessions for interested and potential club members including minors.
Talks and Workshops
2026 | OpenFOAM Stammtisch in Göttingen
Gave a 20-min talk on the state of AI in science and software engineering.
2025 | ISC in Hamburg
Contributed to a workshop that covered hands-on examples to showcase the utilization of AI with edge devices.
2024 | Smart Data Innovation Days in Karlsruhe
Gave a 10-min talk on the need to free and private access to AI, specifically LLMs, via Chat AI.
2024 | Informatik Festival in Wiesbaden
Organized and moderated a workshop called “Open Source Blickwinkel” that included prepared scenarios to role play discussions around the adoption of open source in various areas.
2024 | KI Symposium in Hagen
Gave a 20-min talk about Chat AI and providing access to generative AI tools for students and researchers.
2024 | ISC in Hamburg
Contributed to a workshop that covered hands-on examples to showcase the deployment and monitoring of edge devices.
2022 | ZKI-AK Supercomputing in Leipzig
Gave a talk on our EU-funded project DECICE, which seeks to provide a unified interface for cloud, edge and HPC environments.
Education
2026–today | Postdoc, Georg-August-University Göttingen
2022–2026 | Dr. rer. nat. in Computer Science, Georg-August-University Göttingen
2019–2022 | MSc in Applied Computer Science, Georg-August-University Göttingen
2015–2019 | BSc in Applied Computer Science, Georg-August-University Göttingen
Publications
About Me
Dr. Jonathan Decker
Jonathan is a scientific employee of the Georg-August-University of Göttingen and a postdoc researcher. He takes the role of a system architect and is focused on designing systems that enable new and novel ways of utilizing Cloud and HPC resources, while also being efficient, secure and scalable. Most notably, he strives to combine HPC with Kubernetes. In addition to conducting research in these topics, he handles university teaching activities.