Daniel Kuschny
Software Engineer
Frastanz, Vorarlberg, Austria
Summary
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Top SchoolDaniel Kuschny is a software engineer with 16 years of experience specializing in web and .NET technologies, currently based in Frastanz, Austria. He progressed from web developer roles into leadership at Leica Geosystems/Hexagon, culminating as Principal Software Engineer where he focused on delivering robust, production-grade systems. An active open-source contributor, he created and maintains alphaTab (a cross-platform music notation/tab renderer) and has contributed NuGet handling fixes to Dependabot's core, showing strength across front-end SVG rendering and back-end package management. Daniel combines deep technical craftsmanship with practical product sensibility, and his background as a long-term freelancer and technical lead gives him a knack for translating complex requirements into polished, user-facing features.
15 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer-Softwaretechnik, Master of Science - MS Computer-Softwaretechnik at FHV - Vorarlberg University of Applied SciencesExchange Semester Computer-Softwaretechnik, Exchange Semester Computer-Softwaretechnik at Rovaniemi University of Applied SciencesMatura Computer-Softwaretechnik, Matura Computer-Softwaretechnik at HTL Dornbirn
Github Skills (11)
dependency-manager10
dependency-management10
nuget10
javascript10
svg10
dependency-analysis10
ruby10
music-notation9
testing9
user-interface8
regex8
Programming languages (25)
Github contributions (5)
CoderLine/alphaTab
Jun 2010 - Jan 2023
alphaTab is a cross platform music notation and guitar tablature rendering library.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:10 releases, 45 reviews, 1115 commits in 12 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Daniel significantly improved the rendering of whammy bar elements within the tab renderer. They added and refined logic for rendering various whammy bar styles and related visuals for both score and tab staves. Additionally, they focused on ensuring proper positioning of tied notes and lyrics across bars, and introduced support for displaying the chords in the score sheet. Their contributions primarily involved modifications to JavaScript code, likely involving SVG rendering to achieve these enhancements.
alphatabguitar-tablaturesvgmusicxmljavascript
dependabot/dependabot-core
Feb 2022 - Feb 2022
🤖 Dependabot's core logic for creating update PRs.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 5 commits, 1 PR in 9 days
Contributions summary:Daniel focused on improving the handling of NuGet package version requirements within the Dependabot core logic. Their contributions included fixing issues related to wildcard version ranges ("*-*"), adding tests to validate the correct interpretation of these ranges, and ensuring the tool correctly handles pre-release versions. They also addressed whitespace issues in the code. Furthermore, they updated assertions to align with the latest library version.
dependenciespythonelmorgslogic
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