Björn Kahlert
Senior Developer at www.bkahlert.com
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolBjörn Kahlert is a senior developer based in Berlin with 14 years of hands-on experience spanning backend and frontend systems, consultancy, and long-running freelance work since 1999. He recently completed a PhD in computer science focused on API usability and now applies that research-driven perspective to building robust backend systems for one of Germany’s top ten banks. Comfortable across the stack, he has a solid track record as a systems administrator, web developer, and application engineer in both startups and corporate environments. An active contributor to open-source documentation, he improved usability and accessibility of the widely used SeqAn bioinformatics library docs—bringing a publisher’s attention to detail to developer-facing interfaces. Known for blending practical production experience with academic rigor, he’s particularly strong at translating complex APIs into clearer, more usable developer experiences.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science at Freie Universität BerlinComputer Science, Computer Science at Université Paris Cité
German, English, French
Stackoverflow
129reputation
52kreached
12answers
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Github Skills (14)
documentation10
lessc8
javascript8
css8
gradle6
java6
shell6
content-negotiation6
linux6
bash6
spring-mvc6
android6
spring-boot6
guava6
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
seqan/seqan
Nov 2013 - Dec 2013
SeqAn's official repository.
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:72 commits, 1 issue in 28 days
Contributions summary:Björn primarily contributed to the documentation of the SeqAn library. Their commits focused on improving the presentation and structure of the documentation, including adding features like deep links and collapsed code snippets. They also made changes to CSS and JavaScript files to enhance the appearance and usability of the documentation, such as correcting formatting issues and ensuring proper display across different browsers. These modifications were aimed at improving the overall clarity and accessibility of the SeqAn API documentation.
simdsequenceindexingsequence-alignmentsseqan
bkahlert/kommons
Dec 2020 - Jan 2023
Kommons is a set of Kotlin Multiplatform Libraries (MPP) to allow the execution of command lines / scripts, to support print debugging and to ease testing.
Contributions:11 releases, 426 commits, 24 PRs in 2 years 1 month
kotlin-multiplatformlogginglinesloggerdebugging
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