Harald Steinlechner is a Vienna-based software founder and researcher with 15 years of experience building high-performance rendering engines and visualizations, currently leading Aardworx as Co-Founder & CEO. His background at VRVis blends deep graphics research with hands-on engineering, and he has a track record of contributing pragmatic fixes and integration tests to notable open-source projects like Paket. As an educator he teaches rendering engine design at TU Wien and parallel/functional programming at Technikum Wien, reflecting a rare mix of academic rigor and production-minded implementation. His training includes a Diplom in Software Engineering and specialized studies in domain-specific languages, which inform both his system design and tooling work. Colleagues describe him as someone who moves smoothly between low-level performance problems and product-level leadership while still shipping reproducible, well-tested software.
15 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Vienna University of Technology
HTL Innsbruck
Summer School on Domain Specific Languages, Summer School on Domain Specific Languages at Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne
A dependency manager for .NET with support for NuGet packages and Git repositories.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & QA Engineer
Contributions:11 commits, 8 PRs, 26 comments in 9 months
Contributions summary:Harald primarily focused on bug fixes and improvements related to password encryption, assembly file handling, and build processes within the .NET dependency manager. They addressed issues related to data protection on different operating systems and caching mechanisms, particularly affecting the core functionality of the application. Furthermore, the user implemented integration tests to validate the behavior of the package manager under various scenarios, ensuring functionality and fixing file locking issues.
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Harald Steinlechner - Co-Founder & CEO Aardworx GmbH