Axel Kittenberger
Systemadministrator
Vienna, Austria
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Top SchoolAxel Kittenberger is a seasoned system administrator based in Vienna with 17 years of experience blending production operations and hands-on software development. At Universität Wien since 2013 he has kept infrastructure reliable while contributing code improvements and feature work across prominent open-source projects. His GitHub contributions span full-stack work on opentype.js—improving font hinting and rendering performance—and practical backend and tooling refinements in projects like lsyncd and TeXstudio, showing attention to both low-level C formatting and user-facing editor features. Comfortable across systems, build processes, and UI/UX enhancements, he brings a rare mix of operational rigor and developer empathy. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic refactors that improve maintainability and performance without disrupting users.
17 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
WU WienUniversität Wien
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Github Skills (34)
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Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
lsyncd/lsyncd
Aug 2008 - Sep 2018
Lsyncd (Live Syncing Daemon) synchronizes local directories with remote targets
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:856 commits, 32 PRs, 213 pushes in 10 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Axel primarily focused on code style improvements and source code formatting within the Lsyncd project, specifically concerning the C source files. The commits show the user employing tools like `astyled` to ensure consistent code style. They also refactored the code. There are no further details.
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opentypejs/opentype.js
Mar 2017 - Oct 2017
Read and write OpenType fonts using JavaScript.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:22 commits, 11 PRs, 76 comments in 7 months
Contributions summary:Axel primarily contributed to the hinting engine and core functionalities of the opentype.js library, including fixing rounding issues and handling font hinting. They addressed code styling complaints and made changes to several files, including `hintingtt.js`, `glyph.js`, and `font.js`. They also made changes that improved the performance of the library, and enhanced the integration of the font hinting feature within the rendering process.
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