Gregor Best
Software Developer at Vaira UG
Siegburg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
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Top SchoolGregor Best is a pragmatic software developer with 17 years of experience building backend systems, tooling and ops automation from Germany. He has hands-on expertise in Go and Python, running production services with MariaDB, RabbitMQ and Kubernetes, and has managed deployments and PKI operations using Ansible and NetBox. Gregor contributes to notable open-source projects—improving the awesome window manager’s UI/interaction and enhancing the Hy Lisp-on-Python language—showing comfort across both low-level system integration and language/runtime work. At Pferdewetten de AG and Vasgard he combined development with ops and B2B support, and today continues product and platform work at Vaira UG. He prefers minimal, pragmatic infrastructure and is migrating new projects to SourceHut, reflecting a focus on lightweight, controllable tooling.
17 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Paderborn University
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Github Skills (19)
python10
macros10
c1110
c1710
lua10
hy10
xorg10
awesomewm10
window-manager10
cprogramming-language10
ui-design9
front-end-development9
compiler-compiler9
uid9
lisp9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
awesomeWM/awesome
Aug 2008 - May 2013
awesome window manager
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:108 commits in 4 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Gregor primarily contributed to the development of the awesome window manager, enhancing its functionality and user interface. They implemented new features, such as the `object_under_pointer` function for mouse interaction and the `selection()` function for X selection retrieval. Additionally, they addressed bugs related to screen resizing and implemented real transparency for wiboxes, improving the overall visual experience and usability of the window manager. The user also refactored the code to remove deprecated features.
luatitlebarfloatinglinuxwindow
hylang/hy
May 2015 - Sep 2015
A dialect of Lisp that's embedded in Python
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:23 commits, 16 PRs, 4 pushes in 3 months
Contributions summary:Gregor primarily contributed to the Hy programming language's core functionality and documentation. Their work included adding and expanding documentation for the `nonlocal` directive and the `read-str` function. They also implemented features such as allowing specification of global tables and module names for the `eval` function, and they added tests for these new features. Furthermore, they made the `defmain` macro cleaner, fixed typos, and addressed issues related to LexExceptions and `eval` argument type checking.
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