Hugo Melder
Working Student at algoriddim GmbH
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolHugo Melder is a systems-focused software engineer with seven years of experience building and optimizing cross-platform Objective-C runtimes, Foundation-like frameworks, and real-time media processors. Based in Munich, he contributes to LLVM, libobjc2, GNUstep and Apple's libdispatch while working at algoriddim, where he improves the Objective-C 2.0 runtime and Clang frontend for a production cross-platform stack. He previously led an open-source Virtual Media Processor project at TUM that targets TV-grade real-time blending and encoding on consumer hardware, showing a blend of embedded systems and high-performance software skills. His open-source QA and test-automation work on GNUstep's Base Library demonstrates attention to platform-specific edge cases (Windows MSVC, path handling) that improve cross-platform reliability. Holding studies in Informatics at TUM with ties to NUS, Hugo pairs academic grounding with hands-on contributions across compiler/runtime and multimedia tooling.
7 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Informatics, Informatics at Technische Universität MünchenComputer Engineering, Computer Engineering at National University of Singapore
German, English
Github Skills (5)
unit-testing10
objective-c10
testing10
gnu9
windows8
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
gnustep/libs-base
May 2022 - Oct 2022
The GNUstep Base Library is a library of general-purpose, non-graphical Objective C objects.
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:31 reviews, 64 commits, 102 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Hugo primarily focused on fixing and improving unit tests within the GNUstep Base Library. Their commits addressed issues related to platform-specific behavior, such as Windows MSVC and tilde abbreviation. They also made changes to unit tests involving string handling and file paths, enhancing the overall test coverage and reliability of the library. Furthermore, the user added and refined test cases to ensure accurate behavior across different functionalities of the library.
objective-cgnugnustepfoundationgraphical
hmelder/AnkiTUM
Nov 2023 - Apr 2025
Version-controlled Anki flashcards written in Markdown for CS @ TUM
Contributions:1 PR, 119 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 5 months
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