Hannah Von Reth
Principal Engineer at OpenCloud.eu
Rheinfelden (Baden), Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolHannah Von Reth is a Principal Engineer with 16 years of experience building cross-platform C++ and Python software, currently leading engineering efforts at OpenCloud.eu and long active in the KDE ecosystem. She blends deep systems and tooling expertise—improving compiler caches, desktop sync clients, and Qt inspection tools—with hands-on UI work and backend reliability improvements. Her contributions to notable open-source projects like Nextcloud, ccache, GammaRay and Tomahawk demonstrate a practical focus on Windows portability, logging robustness, and polished user-facing features such as taskbar media controls. A Master’s graduate in Computer Science from Universität Basel, she also extended academic research into production-grade planning software (Fast Downward). Colleagues rely on her for refactors that reduce crashes and log flooding, and for pragmatic fixes that make cross-platform builds and deployments more resilient. Based in Rheinfelden, Germany, she pairs long-term OSS stewardship with pragmatic engineering leadership.
16 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Georg-Büchner-Gymnasium RheinfeldenMaster's Degree Computer Science, Master's Degree Computer Science at University of Basel
German, English
Github Skills (35)
c-language10
qt10
multiplatform10
wp-api10
windows10
user-interface10
cross-platform10
winapi10
ui-design10
c1110
c1710
uid10
compiler-compiler10
front-end-development10
compiler10
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
nextcloud/desktop
Aug 2019 - Aug 2021
💻 Desktop sync client for Nextcloud
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:291 commits in 2 years
Contributions summary:Hannah primarily contributed to the Nextcloud desktop client's logging functionality, focusing on improving error handling and message prioritization. Their commits addressed issues related to flooding system logs, ensuring critical messages were directed to stderr, and implementing mechanisms to flush logs before crashes. The user also refactored the Windows shell extensions, and performed some general cleanup and optimization of strings.
cppnextcloudsyncc-plus-plusdesktop
tomahawk-player/tomahawk
Jul 2012 - Jan 2016
Tomahawk, the multi-source music player
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:88 commits, 14 PRs, 15 comments in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Hannah contributed to the Tomahawk music player by implementing Windows-specific features. These features included adding support for Windows taskbar thumb buttons, which allows for media control directly from the taskbar, and integrating a "love" button to interact with the music service. Furthermore, the user fixed build issues related to the Windows x64 build. These changes improved the user experience and platform compatibility of the Tomahawk application.
multi-sourcemusicmusic-playerplayer
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