Alexander Eick
Leipzig, Saxony, Germany
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Top SchoolAlexander Eick is an engineer with a decade of international experience bridging research, teaching, and consulting across Brazil, the Netherlands and Germany. He holds a B.Eng. (Hons) from Hanzehogeschool Groningen and an M.Sc. from UFMG, and has worked on renewable energy, microelectronics fabrication and autonomous systems while consulting at d-fine and contributing to engineering startups. Comfortable in German, English, Portuguese and Dutch, he combines hands-on hardware and firmware skills with a flair for user-facing software—evident in his open-source contributions like enhancing Dear ImGui’s ImGuiFileDialog with colored filters, thumbnails and multi-select. His background in education and military service gives him strong communication, mentorship and discipline in cross-cultural teams. Pragmatic and curious, he seeks roles where multidisciplinary engineering meets tangible impact in clean energy or embedded systems.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Bachelor's Degree at Hanzehogeschool GroningenExchange semester, Exchange semester at Universidade Federal de ViçosaExtension course, Extension course at Universidade Estadual de CampinasMaster’s Degree, Master’s Degree at Universidade Federal de Minas GeraisPreparation course for CPE exam, Preparation course for CPE exam at Rizvi International SchoolsGerman Air Force
English, German, Dutch, Portuguese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (16)
c-language10
user-interface10
cross-platform10
imgui10
cprogramming-language10
multiplatform10
im10
platform-independent10
file-handling9
memory-alignment6
vulkan6
generics6
rust6
linux6
shader6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
aiekick/ImGuiFileDialog
Sep 2019 - Jan 2023
Full featured file Dialog for Dear ImGui
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:18 releases, 1 review, 504 commits in 3 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Alexander implemented and refined features for a full-featured file dialog within the Dear ImGui framework. Key contributions included the addition of filter coloring functionality, which involved modifying the dialog's core logic to display file types with distinct colors based on their extensions. They also addressed bugs and enhanced the user interface, such as by enabling the display of thumbnails within the dialog for easier file navigation. Furthermore, they added support for multi-selection of files, improving the tool's overall usability.
file-dialogimguidialogfilter-coloringpane
aiekick/ezLibs
Oct 2024 - Feb 2026
Contributions:1 release, 1 PR, 369 pushes in 1 year 4 months
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