Jan Bischko
Senior Software Development Engineer QA at Barracuda
Austria
Summary
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Top SchoolJan Bischko is a Senior Software Development Engineer in QA with 11 years of experience building test infrastructure for a major network security company. He brings deep hands-on expertise in Python, virtualization (KVM, VMWare, Docker), C, and Nix/NixOS, combined with a background in computational astrophysics that informs his approach to large-scale simulation and systems thinking. At Barracuda he has progressed from QA specialist to senior engineer, designing robust test systems and tooling for complex network products. An active open-source contributor, he has improved embedded firmware (ESP8266) for the popular ColorChord project and polished documentation and usability across widely used shells and bash frameworks. He also lectures and maintained parts of a Linux distribution, reflecting a blend of engineering, teaching, and systems maintenance. Based in Austria, he is passionate about open-source hardware/software and often bridges low-level embedded work with infrastructure and reproducible environments.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computational Physics (Astrophysics), Master of Science - MS, Computational Physics (Astrophysics) at Leopold-Franzens Universität InnsbruckBachelor of Science - BS, Molecular/Statisical Physics, Bachelor of Science - BS, Molecular/Statisical Physics at Universität Innsbruck
German, English
Github Skills (28)
learn-ruby-on-rails10
scripting10
firmware10
user-manual10
bash10
bash-completion10
alias10
c1110
basics10
makefile10
esp826610
c1710
script10
sys10
sh10
Programming languages (32)
Github contributions (5)
Bash-it/bash-it
Mar 2017 - Dec 2018
A community Bash framework.
Role in this project:
Developer
DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 5 PRs, 8 comments in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:Jan primarily contributed to the `bash-it/bash-it` repository by enhancing the functionality and usability of the bash framework. They focused on improving completion and aliasing for common misspellings and added a theme. Additionally, the user addressed bugs in the completion for ssh and docker aliases, ensuring the framework's compatibility and robustness. Their work included updating the bash scripts, and plugins.
bash-promptbash-completionbash-configurationproductivitybash-framework
xonsh/xonsh
May 2019 - Jul 2020
:shell: Python-powered shell. Full-featured and cross-platform.
Role in this project:Technical Writer & Documentation Specialist
Technical Writer & Documentation SpecialistContributions:19 commits, 5 PRs, 65 comments in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Jan primarily focused on improving and clarifying the Xonsh shell's documentation. Their contributions include correcting errors and inconsistencies in the completer tutorial, documenting the XDG-compatible `xonshrc` path, and adding more xonshrc examples for users to utilize. Furthermore, the user removed an obsolete keybinding and its associated news item.
unixiterm2pythonsystem-administrationxonsh
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