Jyrki Gadinger
Software Engineer at Retrospring
Linz, Upper Austria
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Top SchoolJyrki Gadinger is a seasoned software engineer with 13 years of experience, currently at Nextcloud and co-founder of the Rails-based social Q/A platform Retrospring. A self-described "foxy" Rubyist, he combines backend Rails development, infrastructure automation with Ansible, and hands-on Ops experience from roles at Runtastic/adidas. He’s an active open-source contributor with notable work on the ruby/spec test suite and practical enhancements to projects like Nextcloud Desktop and the Ansible community.general collection (notably OpenNebula modules). Comfortable across full-stack and infra boundaries, he has a knack for shipping robust automation and improving test coverage. Based in Linz, Austria, he brings a pragmatic, developer-first approach and a habit of fixing tricky cross-platform UI and deployment issues that often hide in large projects.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Information Technology, Information Technology at HTL St. Pölten
German, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (35)
spec10
c-language10
qt10
python10
gui-application10
desktop-application10
ruby10
desktop10
localization10
lang10
mspec10
front-end-development10
ansible10
opennebula10
ansible-galaxy10
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
nextcloud/desktop
Aug 2024 - Apr 2025
💻 Desktop sync client for Nextcloud
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1 release, 144 reviews, 63 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Jyrki primarily contributed to the desktop client's GUI, enhancing the user experience through improved tray tooltips, resolving window resizing issues on DPI changes, and fixing color-related issues in dark mode. They addressed bugs related to menu behavior and implemented code to facilitate the display of reshares within the sharing dialog. The user also made changes to support the new x-nc-skip-trashbin header, indicating work on file management and deletion processes.
cppnextcloudsyncc-plus-plusdesktop
ruby/spec
Oct 2017 - Oct 2018
The Ruby Spec Suite aka ruby/spec
Role in this project:QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:16 commits, 14 PRs, 16 comments in 1 year
Contributions summary:Jyrki primarily contributed to the Ruby spec suite by adding and modifying test cases. Their work involved creating new tests for various Ruby language features and standard library methods, including `File.empty?`, `Float#round(half:)`, `Net::FTP#status`, `Integer#round(half:)`, `CGI::Cookie.parse`, and regular expression character classes. These changes demonstrate a focus on improving the test coverage and ensuring the accuracy of the Ruby language implementation.
ruby-gemmspecrailsrubyspec
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