Research Associate at TU Berlin, Germany.
Trever Schirmer, Aris Wiegand, Lucca di Benedetto, Linus Gustafsson, Natalie Carl, Tobias Pfandzelter, David Bermbach. New Kids: An Architecture and Performance Investigation of Second-Generation Serverless Platforms. ACM Transactions on Internet Technology, 2026 (Just Accepted). Bib · DOI · PDF
Joshua Adamek, Natalie Carl, Trever Schirmer, Moritz Heinlein, David Bermbach, Sergio Lucia. Large-Scale Workflow Placement in Serverless Computing Using Integer Nonlinear Programming. IEEE Access, 2026 (Early Access). Bib · DOI · PDF
Minghe Wang, Trever Schirmer, Mohammadreza Malekabbasi, David Bermbach. FaaSMoE: A Serverless Framework for Multi-Tenant Mixture-of-Experts Serving. Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Edge Systems, Analytics and Networking (EdgeSys ‘26), 2026. Bib · DOI · PDF
Natalie Carl, Niklas Kowallik, Constantin Stahl, Trever Schirmer, Tobias Pfandzelter, David Bermbach. Serverless Abstractions for Short-Running, Lightweight Streams. arXiv:2603.03089 [cs.DC], 2026. Bib · PDF
Niklas Kowallik, Trever Schirmer, David Bermbach. Konflux: Optimized Function Fusion for Serverless Applications. arXiv:2601.11156 [cs.DC], 2026. Bib · PDF
Minghe Wang, Alexandra Kapp, Trever Schirmer, Tobias Pfandzelter, David Bermbach. Exploring Influence Factors on LLM Suitability for No-Code Development of End User Applications. Software: Practice and Experience, 2026. Bib · DOI · PDF
Minghe Wang, Tobias Pfandzelter, Trever Schirmer, David Bermbach. LLM4FaaS: No-Code Application Development using LLMs and FaaS. Proceedings of the 18th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC ‘25), 2025. Bib · DOI · PDF
Trever Schirmer, Natalie Carl, Nils Höller, Tobias Pfandzelter, David Bermbach. Minos: Exploiting Cloud Performance Variation with Function-as-a-Service Instance Selection. Proceedings of the 13th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Engineering (IC2E ‘25), 2025. Bib · DOI · PDF · Slides
Natalie Carl, Trever Schirmer, Joshua Adamek, Niklas Kowallik, Tobias Pfandzelter, Sergio Lucia, David Bermbach. Multi-Event Triggers for Serverless Computing. Proceedings of the 13th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Engineering (IC2E ‘25), 2025. Bib · DOI · PDF
Trever Schirmer, David Bermbach. Towards a Testbed for Scalable FaaS Platforms. Proceedings of the 13th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Engineering (IC2E ‘25), 2025. Bib · DOI · PDF
Tobias Pfandzelter, Nikita Bauer, Alexander Leis, Corentin Perdrizet, Felix Trautwein, Trever Schirmer, Osama Abboud, David Bermbach. Trabant: A Serverless Architecture for Multi-Tenant Orbital Edge Computing. arXiv:2504.08337 [cs.DC], 2025. Bib · PDF
Trever Schirmer, Joel Scheuner, Tobias Pfandzelter, David Bermbach. Fusionize++: Improving Serverless Application Performance Using Dynamic Task Inlining and Infrastructure Optimization. IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, 2024. Bib · DOI · PDF
Trever Schirmer, Tobias Pfandzelter, David Bermbach. ElastiBench: Scalable Continuous Benchmarking on Cloud FaaS Platforms. Proceedings of the 12th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Engineering (IC2E ‘24), 2024. Bib · DOI · PDF
Natalie Carl, Trever Schirmer, Tobias Pfandzelter, David Bermbach. GeoFF: Federated Serverless Workflows with Data Pre-Fetching. Proceedings of the 12th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Engineering (IC2E ‘24), 2024. Bib · DOI · PDF
Mohammadreza Malekabbasi, Tobias Pfandzelter, Trever Schirmer, David Bermbach. GeoFaaS: An Edge-to-Cloud FaaS Platform. Proceedings of the 12th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Engineering (IC2E ‘24), 2024. Bib · DOI · PDF
Minghe Wang, Trever Schirmer, Tobias Pfandzelter, David Bermbach. ShutPub: Publisher-side Filtering for Content-based Pub/Sub on Edge. Proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Edge Systems, Analytics and Networking (EdgeSys ‘24), 2024. 🏆 Best Paper Award. Bib · DOI
Martin Grambow, Tim Dockenfuß, Trever Schirmer, Nils Japke, David Bermbach. Efficiently Detecting Performance Changes in FaaS Application Releases. Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Serverless Computing (WoSC ‘23), 2023. Bib · DOI · PDF
Trever Schirmer, Natalie Carl, Tobias Pfandzelter, David Bermbach. ProFaaStinate: Delaying Serverless Function Calls to Optimize Platform Performance. Proceedings of the 9th International Workshop on Serverless Computing (WoSC ‘23), 2023. Bib · DOI · PDF · Slides · Talk
Tobias Pfandzelter, Nils Japke, Trever Schirmer, Jonathan Hasenburg, David Bermbach. Managing Data Replication and Distribution in the Fog with FReD. Software: Practice and Experience, 2023. Bib · DOI · PDF
Trever Schirmer, Nils Japke, Sofia Greten, Tobias Pfandzelter, David Bermbach. The Night Shift: Understanding Performance Variability of Cloud Serverless Platforms. Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on SErverless Systems, Applications and MEthodologies (SESAME ‘23), 2023. Bib · DOI · PDF
Minghe Wang, Trever Schirmer, Tobias Pfandzelter, David Bermbach. Lotus: Serverless In-Transit Data Processing for Edge-based Pub/Sub. Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Edge Systems, Analytics and Networking (EdgeSys ‘23), 2023. Bib · DOI · PDF
Trever Schirmer, Joel Scheuner, Tobias Pfandzelter, David Bermbach. Fusionize: Improving Serverless Application Performance through Feedback-Driven Function Fusion. Proceedings of the 10th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Engineering (IC2E ‘22), 2022. Bib · DOI · PDF
Sebastian Werner, Trever Schirmer. Hardless: A Generalized Serverless Compute Architecture for Hardware Processing Accelerators. Proceedings of the 10th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Engineering (IC2E ‘22), 2022. Bib · DOI · PDF
Tobias Pfandzelter, Sören Henning, Trever Schirmer, Wilhelm Hasselbring, David Bermbach. Streaming vs. Functions: A Cost Perspective on Cloud Event Processing. Proceedings of the 10th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Engineering (IC2E ‘22), 2022. Bib · DOI · PDF
Tobias Pfandzelter, Trever Schirmer, David Bermbach. Towards Distributed Coordination for Fog Platforms. Proceedings of the 22nd IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing, Posters (CCGrid ‘22), 2022. Bib · DOI · PDF
06/2024 · Talk: ElastiBench: Scalable Continuous Benchmarking on Cloud FaaS Platforms, Third International Workshop on Serverless Computing Experience (WoSCx3). Recording
03/2024 · Grant recipient of the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research Software Campus programme (115 000,- €), for a two-year project.