Emmanuel Engelhart
Domain Leader at Kiwix offline
St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolEmmanuel Engelhart is a seasoned software leader and entrepreneur with 19 years of experience, currently serving as Domain Leader for Data Security at KYOS and leading solution architecture for cryptographic key management, PKI and identity services. He founded and still steers Kiwix, the widely used offline Wikipedia reader and openZIM format, combining product management, volunteer coordination and hands-on development for a global user base. Comfortable across stacks and languages, he blends R&D engineering, DevOps and UI work—contributing notable fixes and CI improvements to projects like kiwix-desktop and kiwix-js. As owner of Eksperion he advises clients on software architecture, process automation and recruitment, favoring pragmatic solutions that fit organizational context. Past roles include modernizing large security-focused systems at SwissSign and driving Agile/CI transformations, demonstrating deep operational and release-management expertise. Based in St. Gallen, Switzerland, he pairs technical depth with a founder’s mindset and a knack for shipping robust open-source and enterprise systems.
19 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at EPITA: Ecole d'Ingénieurs en Informatique
Github Skills (26)
github-ci10
qt10
scripting10
css10
cicd10
script10
sh10
shell10
githubaction-workflow10
firefox-webextension9
offline-mode9
ui-design9
firefox-addon9
offline-js9
offline-app9
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
kiwix/kiwix-js
May 2017 - Dec 2022
Fully portable & lightweight ZIM reader in Javascript
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:1 review, 25 commits, 24 PRs in 5 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Emmanuel contributed to the project by updating and modifying CI/CD pipelines, specifically dealing with the deployment of Firefox extensions. They made changes to shell scripts related to packaging and uploading extensions to a server. Additionally, the user updated the build process to address the new download.kiwix.org server. The changes involved modifications to the build and deployment scripts for the project.
tedtiddlywikiedge-extensionjavascriptwebextension
kiwix/kiwix-desktop
Dec 2017 - Dec 2022
Kiwix for Windows and GNU/Linux desktops
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:6 releases, 205 reviews, 184 commits in 5 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Emmanuel primarily contributed to the Kiwix-desktop project by implementing front-end and UI improvements, fixing bugs, and enhancing the user experience. They addressed CSS and icon issues in the top bar and search functionalities, disabled broken features, and refactored code related to file handling and menu options. Furthermore, the user made improvements to the library by updating content categories and ensuring the application's compatibility with HTTPS for online content access.
tiddlywikiwindowslinuxqt5wikipedia
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