carlfriedrich
Software Engineer at embedded data
Hamburg, Germany
Summary
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Rockstarcarlfriedrich is a pragmatic software engineer based in Hamburg, Germany with seven years of experience delivering backend and DevOps-focused solutions. He contributes to notable open-source tooling—most prominently enhancing wfxr/forgit—where he improved interactive git workflows, added multi-revision diffs and rename support, and refactored code for performance and maintainability. Comfortable across scripting, CLI utilities, and developer tooling, he favors practical improvements that elevate everyday developer productivity. Colleagues rely on him to simplify complex workflows and make configurable, robust tools that scale from single-developer use to team environments.
7 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (16)
git10
fzf10
plug10
bash10
zsh10
plugin10
cli10
visual-studio-code9
git-remote6
fonts6
linux6
github6
user-experience6
git-push6
tab-completion6
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
wfxr/forgit
Mar 2022 - Jan 2023
:zzz: A utility tool powered by fzf for using git interactively.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:1 release, 133 reviews, 48 commits in 10 months
Contributions summary:Carlfriedrich primarily contributed to improving the interactive git tool `forgit`, focusing on enhancing the user experience and expanding functionality. They implemented features such as supporting multiple revisions for diffs, incorporating git move/rename actions, and making fzf arguments overridable via environment variables. Furthermore, the user refactored existing code to reduce duplication and improve performance, while also working on features like interactive branch selection for cherry-picking.
zshzsh-pluginzzzbashutility-tool
carlfriedrich/forgit
Mar 2022 - Apr 2025
:zzz: A utility tool powered by fzf for using git interactively.
Contributions:1 release, 4 PRs, 205 pushes in 3 years 1 month
clizsh-pluginzzzbashutility-tool
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