Hans Pagel
Director Of Open Source at Scalar
Berlin, Germany
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Hans Pagel is a Director of Open Source based in Berlin with a decade of experience building collaborative web tooling and developer communities. As co-founder of überdosis and later Scalar, he has combined product leadership with hands-on front-end and back-end engineering, contributing notable work to projects like tiptap and hocuspocus—real-time CRDT collaboration and a headless rich text editor used widely in web apps. He bridges design sensibilities from his Communication Design degree with pragmatic engineering, improving UX, documentation, and developer experience across repos. Known for shipping examples and polishing integrations (Tiptap/Quill) as well as maintaining build and linting infrastructure, he excels at making complex collaboration tech approachable.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Communication Design, Bachelor's degree, Communication Design at Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Berlin
Github Skills (16)
javascript10
tiptap10
yjs10
eslint10
front-end-development10
vue10
vue-jsx10
crdt9
realtime9
websocket9
html9
css9
quill9
uid8
prosemirror8
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
ueberdosis/hocuspocus
Dec 2020 - Jun 2022
The CRDT Yjs WebSocket backend for conflict-free real-time collaboration in your app.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:678 commits in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Hans primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the project, focusing on fixing code style issues and updating the ESLint configuration. They set up Gridsome for the documentation and updated its content. They also added examples for Tiptap and Quill with collaborative editing.
realtimeslatejswebsocketsprosemirrorjavascript
ueberdosis/tiptap
Aug 2018 - Jan 2022
The headless rich text editor framework for web artisans.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 1470 commits, 136 PRs in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Hans primarily contributed to front-end development within the tiptap repository. Their commits focused on implementing new features, adding example pages, and enhancing the visual aspects of the editor. They also made changes to menus and styling elements to improve usability, and they made updates to documentation and example pages, adding new functionality and fixing existing problems.
jsrich-textvuewysiwyg-editorrenderless-components
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