Alex Busenius
Technical Lead at Luxoft
Stuttgart Region Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolAlex Busenius is a Technical Lead with 18 years of experience specializing in C++ and Qt-based software architecture for automotive HMI and mission-critical distributed systems. Based in the Stuttgart region, he blends hands-on development, performance analysis and information security with agile delivery practices. He has led backend engineering efforts at Luxoft and Capgemini, driving correctness and maintainability in large codebases and mentoring teams through complex integrations. An early contributor to XWiki and a former research assistant who built a security-focused code generator, he brings a strong open-source and formal-security mindset to product engineering. Notably, his XWiki contributions improved language handling and code quality through systematic refactoring and tests, reflecting a habit of fixing subtle correctness issues. He prefers GNU/Linux toolchains and embraces pragmatic, test-driven approaches to keep safety- and performance-sensitive systems robust.
18 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Computer Science, Bachelor, Computer Science at Universität des Saarlandes
German, English, Russian
Github Skills (8)
unit-testing10
javas10
xwiki10
java10
strings9
text-manipulation9
refactoring8
refactor8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
xwiki/xwiki-platform
Aug 2010 - Jul 2011
The XWiki platform
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:213 commits in 10 months
Contributions summary:Alex primarily contributed to the XWiki platform's core functionality. Their work focused on enhancing the language handling capabilities through the addition of the `normalizeLanguage` method and its associated unit tests. Furthermore, the user refactored the code base to utilize `normalizeLanguage` consistently across various modules, enhancing language setting correctness. The commits also included code style cleanup and fixing of warnings, improving the overall code quality.
xwikitiddlywiki5phptiddlywiki
abusenius/insaned
Dec 2013 - Oct 2017
Simple daemon for polling button presses on SANE scanners
Contributions:2 releases, 64 commits, 2 PRs in 3 years 11 months
daemonlinuxscannersbuttonsane
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