Finn Gärtner
Software Engineer at Canonical
Leverkusen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolFinn Gärtner is a software engineer with six years of practical experience, currently based in Leverkusen and working at Canonical. He has recent industry experience at niologic and contributes to performance-focused open-source projects, notably fixing runtime and environment-loading bugs in the high-profile Bun JavaScript runtime. Comfortable in back-end development and low-level runtime internals (including Zig codebase fixes), he brings attention to detail demonstrated by resolving subtle off-by-one, formatting, and BigInt printing issues. A University of Bonn attendee with a strong academic background, Finn blends production engineering with hands-on debugging skills that surface in both commercial and open-source codebases.
6 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Abitur, 1.4, Abitur, 1.4 at Marienschule OpladenThe University of Bonn
English, German
Github Skills (8)
bun10
zig10
bundler10
nodejs9
javascript8
typescripts8
typescript8
typescript-types8
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
oven-sh/bun
Jul 2022 - Jul 2022
Incredibly fast JavaScript runtime, bundler, test runner, and package manager – all in one
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:43 reviews, 10 commits, 45 PRs in 7 days
Contributions summary:Finn primarily focused on bug fixes and improvements within the Bun JavaScript runtime, specifically related to the Zig codebase. Their contributions include fixing formatting issues in the console output, correcting errors in the BigInt printing implementation, and resolving an off-by-one error within the environment loader. They also addressed an issue related to whitespace handling in the environment variable loading. The user's work demonstrates an understanding of the internal workings of the runtime and its interaction with environment variables.
runtimeexecutablejavascriptpackage-manageresmodules
FinnRG/vocadb
Apr 2023 - Mar 2025
VocaDB is a Vocaloid Database with translated artists, albums, music videos and more.
Contributions:6 PRs, 1255 pushes, 309 branches in 2 years
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