Hichem Fekih
Senior Software Engineer at ifm
Friedrichshafen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolHichem Fekih is a Senior Software Engineer based in Friedrichshafen, Germany, with seven years of professional experience building embedded and application software across ARM, x86, FPGA and Linux platforms. He brings a strong hardware-software background from roles at AUTOMATA and ifm, combining Verilog/C development, embedded Linux, and OPC-UA/Qt application work with practical FPGA and peripheral bus (SPI/I2C/UART) expertise. Hichem is also an active open-source contributor, improving UX and performance in the Helix editor and extending the popular Rust TUI crate ratatui with flexible bar-chart rendering and grouping. Comfortable across full-stack and low-level domains, he excels at fixing tricky UI rendering/positioning bugs and designing robust embedded systems—an engineer who bridges electronics and modern software tooling.
7 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Elektrotechnik und Elektronik, 1.7, Bachelor of Engineering (BEng), Elektrotechnik und Elektronik, 1.7 at Hochschule NiederrheinMaster of Engineering (MEng), Technische Informatik, Master of Engineering (MEng), Technische Informatik at Technische Universität Berlin
German, English, Arabic
Github Skills (12)
tui10
terminal-ui10
terminal-emulator10
rust10
code-completion10
terminal-application10
ui-design10
text-editor10
widgets10
kakoune10
cli9
vim8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ratatui/ratatui
Apr 2023 - Sep 2023
A Rust crate for cooking up terminal user interfaces (TUIs) 👨🍳🐀 https://ratatui.rs
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:58 reviews, 9 PRs, 83 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Hichem focused on enhancing the `ratatui/ratatui` repository's bar chart widget. They implemented new features to support horizontal bars, customize text values, and address edge cases like empty groups. Their contributions included adding the ability to group bars, set custom text values, and make improvements to the rendering logic for the chart. These enhancements improved the flexibility and functionality of the bar chart widget.
cliratatuirustterminalterminal-user-interface
helix-editor/helix
Mar 2024 - Jul 2024
A post-modern modal text editor.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:15 reviews, 6 PRs, 29 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Hichem contributed significantly to the Helix text editor, focusing on the user interface and signature help features. They fixed scrolling issues within popups and improved the positioning of these elements. Additionally, they implemented functionality to cycle through function signatures/overloads, enhancing the editor's code completion capabilities. The user also optimized popup rendering, contributing to improved performance of the editor.
modalvimkakounerusttext-editor
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