Alexander Miller
Senior Consultant at Novatec Consulting GmbH
Stuttgart Region Germany
Summary
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RockstarAlexander Miller is a Senior Consultant based in the Stuttgart region with 11 years of software engineering experience, balancing client-facing consulting with hands-on development. He brings deep expertise in tooling and editor ecosystems, evidenced by substantial contributions to the popular Spacemacs distribution and focused work on the Treemacs file explorer. His contributions span full-stack and back-end improvements—adding features, fixing bugs, improving performance, and hardening file-watching and window-selection integrations. Comfortable navigating both community-driven open source and enterprise projects, he translates developer workflows into robust, maintainable code. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic refactors and test-driven enhancements that reduce friction for other engineers. Not obviously visible from titles alone, he excels at improving developer UX in editor tooling—an area that amplifies productivity across teams.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (19)
git10
configuration-management10
emacs-lisp10
emacs10
configuration-file10
spacemacs10
configurations10
filesystem9
refactor9
file-operations9
vim9
fileio9
refactoring9
shell8
sh8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
Alexander-Miller/treemacs
Jul 2016 - Jan 2023
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:37 reviews, 1678 commits, 195 PRs in 6 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Alexander primarily worked on implementing features and fixing bugs within the Emacs file explorer, treemacs. Their commits added macro functionality, improved the file-watching behavior for collapsed directories, and inlined tag insert functions. Further contributions included adding tests for shadow node operations and implementing various code refactors to improve the project's structure and performance.
emacsfile-explorer
syl20bnr/spacemacs
May 2017 - Apr 2020
A community-driven Emacs distribution - The best editor is neither Emacs nor Vim, it's Emacs *and* Vim!
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:22 commits, 22 PRs, 206 comments in 2 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Alexander primarily contributed to the treemacs layer, enhancing the Spacemacs file tree functionality. Their work included adding new features and adapting to changes in the treemacs git integration. They addressed bug fixes, performance improvements, and integrated winum for window selection.
emacsvimcommunity-drivenconfigurationspacemacs
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