Gabriel Wicke
Staff Software Engineer at Meta
Bellingham, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGabriel Wicke is a Staff Software Engineer with 22 years of experience building and leading teams that design scalable, distributed, and parallel systems. Currently at Meta, he combines hands-on engineering in Rust, Go, and modern C++ with long-term architectural strategy and pragmatic delivery. Previously at the Wikimedia Foundation he built and led the Service Infrastructure team and spearheaded Parsoid, the challenging round-tripping wikitext-to-HTML parser that powers Wikipedia’s visual editor. An active open-source contributor, he has improved FreeCAD’s path and g-code generation, demonstrating a knack for robust backend optimizations in both web-scale and desktop tooling. Based in Bellingham, Washington, he pairs rigorous academic training (Diplom-Informatiker, summa cum laude) with a habit of tackling technically risky projects and shipping reliable systems.
22 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Diplom-Informatiker, ≅MS, Computer Science, 1.2 (summa cum laude), Diplom-Informatiker, ≅MS, Computer Science, 1.2 (summa cum laude) at Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel
Github Skills (6)
freecad10
gcode10
python10
cad10
opencascade9
3d9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
FreeCAD/FreeCAD
Oct 2019 - Jun 2020
This is the official source code of FreeCAD, a free and opensource multiplatform 3D parametric modeler.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:26 commits, 21 PRs, 41 comments in 8 months
Contributions summary:Gabriel primarily contributed to the Path module of the FreeCAD project, focusing on improving the functionality and robustness of the path generation process. Their commits addressed issues related to path optimization, particularly line simplification and step-over transitions. They also made improvements to the Area module, fixing a crasher and enhancing the robustness of the wire joining and projection functionality. Furthermore, the user's work included refactoring and optimization of code related to the drop cutter and g-code generation.
engineeringmodelerfemedacoin
wikimedia/mediawiki-node-services
Dec 2015 - Jul 2017
Run several mediawiki nodejs services (RESTBase, Parsoid) in a single docker container. Useful for small / low-memory installs.
Contributions:13 commits, 3 PRs, 11 pushes in 1 year 7 months
memorydockerrestbaselow-memorytiddlywiki5
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