Jonathan Buch
Developer at Synyx GmbH & Co. KG
Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
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Top SchoolJonathan Buch is a versatile developer based in Karlsruhe with 19 years of hands-on experience spanning backend and web development, systems administration, and DevOps. At Synyx he blends Java/JavaScript engineering with scrum practices, mentoring, and third-level support, while maintaining in-house operations and administration responsibilities. A longtime systems admin for academic institutes earlier in his career, he brings deep operational insight to application development and support. Jonathan is also an active open-source contributor to the popular sway Wayland compositor, where he improved floating-window focus and implemented raycasting-based fixes—evidence of his knack for low-level, reliability-focused improvements. Colleagues describe him as someone who seeks interesting ideas and quietly turns them into robust, maintainable solutions.
19 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Information Technology, Bachelor's degree, Information Technology at Hochschule Karlsruhe - Technik und WirtschaftHigh School, Information Technology, High School, Information Technology at Konrad-Zuse-Schule Hünfeld
German, English
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Github Skills (7)
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
swaywm/sway
Sep 2018 - Oct 2018
i3-compatible Wayland compositor
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 14 comments in 8 days
Contributions summary:Jonathan primarily contributed to the core functionality of the Wayland compositor, sway. Their work focused on improving the handling of floating windows and container focus. Specifically, they implemented a configuration option for raising floating containers on focus, re-enabled popup handling for focus determination, and fixed focusing for topmost floating windows by implementing raycasting. The user also refactored code related to container management.
compositorwaylandwayland-compositor
Contargo/terraform-provider-minio
Nov 2021 - Mar 2022
Terraform provider for managing minio S3 buckets and IAM Users
Contributions:1 PR, 33 pushes, 24 branches in 4 months
providerbucketsterraform-modulesiam-usersminio
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