Ingo Kegel
CEO at ej-technologies GmbH
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
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Top SchoolIngo Kegel is a seasoned software entrepreneur and CEO with 25 years of experience building developer tooling from Munich, best known as co-founder of ej-technologies, maker of JProfiler and install4j. He combines deep engineering skill—demonstrated by hands-on contributions to prominent open-source projects like FlatLaf, Dokka and the gradle-profiler—with long-term product leadership. His work spans UI and platform compatibility fixes, build-system and Gradle plugin robustness, and performance/profiling integrations such as JProfiler support, reflecting a rare blend of front-end, back-end and performance expertise. Trained as a physicist with a doctorate from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, he brings analytical rigor to software architecture and tooling. Colleagues benefit from his pragmatic focus on cross-platform stability and developer productivity honed over decades of shipping commercial and open-source solutions.
25 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
International Baccalaureate, International Baccalaureate at UWCADDoctorate, Semiconductor Physics, Doctorate, Semiconductor Physics at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
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Github Skills (51)
kotlin10
performance-monitor10
performance-analytics10
memory-leaks10
plugin-development10
performance-measurement10
java10
javas10
api-documentation10
automation10
performance-analysis10
svg10
hibernate10
autobuild10
profiling10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
gradle/gradle-profiler
Dec 2016 - Nov 2017
A tool for gathering profiling and benchmarking information for Gradle builds
Role in this project:
Back-end & Performance Engineer
Back-end & Performance EngineerContributions:14 commits, 4 PRs, 5 comments in 10 months
Contributions summary:Ingo significantly contributed to the `gradle-profiler` project by enhancing its capabilities and improving its performance analysis features. They added support for running Gradle builds on Windows, expanding the tool's platform compatibility. Furthermore, the user implemented support for JProfiler integration, enabling detailed profiling and heap analysis. They also refactored and optimized existing code related to the JProfiler integration, improving usability and performance.
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JFormDesigner/FlatLaf
Jan 2021 - Dec 2021
FlatLaf - Swing Look and Feel (with Darcula/IntelliJ themes support)
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:13 commits, 13 PRs, 16 comments in 11 months
Contributions summary:Ingo primarily focused on enhancing the FlatLaf Swing Look and Feel library, addressing specific platform compatibility issues, and adding new features. Contributions include adapting the UI for JetBrains JVMs, including support for `.AppleSystemUIFont` on macOS and switching text anti-aliasing. The user also added a per-tree wide selection setting and UI for JidePopupMenu. Additionally, the user improved the system's build by making the module dependency on java.logging optional.
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