Helge Heß
Magdeburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
Summary
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RockstarHelge Heß is a seasoned software engineer from Magdeburg with 12 years of hands-on experience in groupware, calendaring, and open source systems. He has deep legacy and modern expertise—ranging from porting a bespoke WebObjects/Objective‑C groupware stack to Linux on uncommon platforms to 19 years of Swift experience and active contributions to SwiftNIO and SwiftWebUI. His open-source work emphasizes cross‑platform stability and practical enhancements, such as IPv6 fixes, iOS-compatible syscalls, Raspberry Pi support, and web UI features like Unsplash integration. Comfortable across backend and frontend domains, he blends protocol-level robustness with user-facing refinements. Formerly involved with Apple and small engineering ventures, he’s available for projects that match his curiosity and occasionally brings a fondness for cows into team culture.
12 years of coding experience
German, English
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Github Skills (26)
asynchronous10
non-blocking10
async10
swiftui-app10
ui-design10
io10
networking10
uid10
event-driven10
front-end-development10
swift10
high-performance10
swiftui10
ios9
raspberry-pi8
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
SwiftWebUI/SwiftWebUI
Jun 2019 - Jan 2023
A demo implementation of SwiftUI for the Web
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:6 releases, 1 review, 127 commits in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Helge primarily focused on developing the frontend aspects of the SwiftWebUI project. They implemented new features like Unsplash integration and a basic stepper component. They also refactored the UI with styling and layout improvements. The user's contributions also included setting up deployment targets and fixing the toggleClass changes.
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apple/swift-nio
Mar 2018 - Aug 2018
Event-driven network application framework for high performance protocol servers & clients, non-blocking.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 10 PRs, 174 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Helge primarily focused on improving the SwiftNIO framework by addressing various issues and enhancing its functionality. Their work included fixing a bug related to IPv6 address descriptions, wrapping sendfile() syscalls for iOS compatibility, and correcting typos. The user also integrated a WebSocketUpgrader for the NIOWebSocketServer demo and added support for compiling and running NIO on Raspberry Pi 32-bit. These contributions demonstrate a focus on stability, cross-platform compatibility, and expanding the framework's capabilities.
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