Gerhard Schlager
Software Engineer at Gerhard Schlager GmbH
Bad Vöslau, Lower Austria
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Top SchoolGerhard Schlager is a seasoned software engineer with 13 years of experience building and maintaining backend systems, currently contributing to the Discourse open-source project and serving as Software Engineer at Civilized Discourse Construction Kit, Inc. He combines hands-on engineering with entrepreneurial leadership as Geschäftsführer of his own GmbH, blending product-focused development with business operations. His background includes a decade-plus tenure at M.J.L. Technische Software where he progressed from engineer to lead, honing expertise in robust importers and data migrations. Notably, his open-source work improving the phpBB3 importer for Discourse addressed tricky issues like private message imports, link handling and locale support—tasks that reveal an eye for edge cases and data integrity. He holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Information Technologies and IT Marketing from FH CAMPUS 02, grounding his technical skills in market-aware product thinking. Based in Bad Vöslau, Austria, he brings a pragmatic, detail-oriented approach to long-lived systems and community-driven platforms.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Informationstechnologien und IT-Marketing, Master’s Degree, Informationstechnologien und IT-Marketing at FH CAMPUS 02
Stackoverflow
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apache-flex
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actionscript
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Github Skills (13)
php10
maintenance10
apache-flex10
mysql9
actionscript9
database-design8
java6
elliptic-curve6
ssl6
openssl6
postgresql6
cryptography6
gradle6
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
discourse/discourse
Aug 2014 - Jan 2023
A platform for community discussion. Free, open, simple.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:686 reviews, 1032 commits, 1145 PRs in 8 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Gerhard focused on improving and maintaining the phpBB3 importer. Their work involved fixing private message imports, optimizing link handling, and ensuring the importer was compatible with changes in the latest poll plugin. The user was also involved in general bug fixes, such as those related to the handling of empty and incorrect attribute values, and the incorporation of new locales.
discourserailsforumjavascriptruby
discourse/mini_tarball
Feb 2021 - Dec 2022
A minimal implementation of the GNU Tar format in Ruby
Contributions:4 releases, 1 review, 14 commits in 1 year 10 months
gnu-tarrubytargnu
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