August Oberhauser
Full Stack Developer at SWI swissinfo.ch
Köniz, Bern, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolAugust Oberhauser is a Full Stack Developer with 10 years of experience, currently building digital products at SWI swissinfo.ch and holding an M.Sc. in Media Informatics. He is an active open-source contributor and package maintainer in the Dart/Flutter ecosystem, with notable contributions to the flagship flutter/flutter repository—improving web driver tooling and cross‑browser support—and adding Linux audio support using GStreamer for the audioplayers package. His background spans frontend, backend, and DevOps work, including build automation and deployment improvements for large projects like seafile’s seahub. Based in Köniz, Switzerland, he pairs pragmatic engineering with a community-first mindset and a history of fixing edge-case tooling and platform integration issues that often go unnoticed.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Media Informatics, Master of Science - MS, Media Informatics at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität MünchenBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science and Multimedia, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science and Multimedia at Universität Augsburg
Github Skills (32)
flutter10
c-language10
webdriver10
multiplatform10
audio-playback10
gstreamer10
flutter-apps10
linux10
cross-platform10
build-automation10
flutter-game10
dart10
cprogramming-language10
gradlew10
platform-independent10
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
bluefireteam/audioplayers
May 2022 - Jan 2023
A Flutter package to play multiple audio files simultaneously (Android/iOS/web/Linux/Windows/macOS)
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:159 reviews, 136 commits, 346 PRs in 8 months
Contributions summary:August primarily worked on adding support for the Linux platform to the Flutter audio player package, as demonstrated by their focus on implementing audio playback functionalities using GStreamer. The commits involve the creation of a new audio player class for Linux, implementing source setting, state management, and volume control. Additionally, the user addressed bugs related to event handling and missing duration events, as well as enhancements to the logging capabilities.
audio-playersimultaneouslyios-androiddartandroid
flutter/flutter
Jun 2022 - Jun 2022
Flutter makes it easy and fast to build beautiful apps for mobile and beyond
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:87 reviews, 1 commit, 20 PRs in 1 day
Contributions summary:August primarily contributed to the Flutter framework, focusing on enhancements to the web driver service and tooling, specifically involving browser flags and desired capabilities. They implemented new features, modifying the code to incorporate arbitrary browser flags and support for different browsers (Chrome, Firefox, Edge) and Android Chrome. Further contributions included adapting the wording for Android SDK requirements for plugins and fixing Gradle-related plugin resolution issues. These changes involved modifications across various files within the flutter_tools and gradle directories.
skiaiosmobilemobile-gamemacos
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