Arne Bahlo
Engineering Manager at Axiom
Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolArne Bahlo is an engineering manager and former full-stack developer with 13 years of experience building fast, accessible products and leading remote teams from Kiel, Germany. He is most experienced in Go, TypeScript and Rust and has progressed from hands-on software engineer to team lead and now engineering manager at Axiom. Arne pairs technical craftsmanship—evidenced by front-end work like the isometric GitHub contributions extension and iOS GIF support—with a pragmatic focus on test automation and product UX. He cares about hiring and preserving company culture in distributed teams and brings practical architecture experience from roles as software architect and long-term contributor across web and embedded systems. He wrote his first website at 12, a detail that hints at lifelong curiosity and an early knack for shipping polished interfaces.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences
German, English
Github Skills (20)
javascript10
ios10
coffeescript10
imageio10
testing10
isometric10
3d10
swift10
test-automation10
animation9
uiimageview9
extension-functions9
chai9
extension-methods9
mochajs9
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
swiftgif/SwiftGif
Jun 2014 - Jan 2021
A small UIImage extension with gif support
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (iOS)
Mobile Developer (iOS)Contributions:15 releases, 109 commits, 31 PRs in 6 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Arne's primary contribution involved developing features for an iOS application that supports animated GIFs. They implemented a `RootViewController` and integrated a GIF-handling class. They added example GIFs, incorporating methods to load and display these animations within the app. Furthermore, they fixed a bug related to the release of image data and updated the code to be compatible with Xcode updates.
cocoapodsuiimagegifioscarthage
guardian/scribe
Apr 2014 - Apr 2014
DEPRECATED: A rich text editor framework for the web platform
Role in this project:QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:5 commits in 1 day
Contributions summary:Arne focused on enhancing the testing framework for the `scribe` rich text editor. Their contributions involved creating and modifying tests specifically targeting the toolbar plugin, ensuring its vendor button functionality behaved as expected. They fixed existing tests, refactored test code for clarity, and improved test coverage within the project. The overall goal was to validate the toolbar's behavior and ensure it functions correctly.
contenteditableweb-platformtext-editingwysiwygjavascript
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