Jonas Bernoulli
Head Honcho at Bernoulli Informatik
Basel, Basel-City, Switzerland
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Jonas Bernoulli is a seasoned software leader with 17 years of experience, currently heading Bernoulli Informatik and serving as Project Lead for Magit. He specializes in expert user interface design for text editing and version control, blending deep Emacs Lisp craftsmanship with backend reliability. His extensive open-source contributions include improvements to flagship projects like Magit, lsp-mode, and the Solarized Emacs theme, where he focused on usability, code style consistency, and maintainability. Jonas has a knack for quietly improving developer workflows—refactoring, enforcing consistent indentation, and fixing subtle compiler warnings that pay dividends at scale. Based in Basel, Switzerland, he bridges sociology and computer science perspectives from his university background to build tools that respect developer ergonomics and social workflows. Colleagues know him for pragmatic, detail-oriented leadership that prioritizes long-term stability over flashy shortcuts.
17 years of coding experience
Sociology and Computer Science, Sociology and Computer Science at Universität Basel
English, German
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Github Skills (63)
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org-mode10
testing10
projectile10
autoloader10
terminal-emulator10
el10
language-server-protocol10
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
emacs-helm/helm
Mar 2012 - Apr 2012
Emacs incremental completion and selection narrowing framework
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer (Emacs Lisp Specialist)
Full-stack Developer (Emacs Lisp Specialist)Contributions:11 commits, 1 PR, 8 comments in 19 days
Contributions summary:Jonas primarily contributed to the Emacs Helm framework, enhancing its functionality and maintainability. They added new user interface elements and updated existing ones to improve user experience. The user demonstrated proficiency in key mapping, face customization and refactoring the code for better performance. Their changes included the refactoring of keymaps and variables.
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