Kim Thoenen
Founder at Thoenen Solutions GmbH
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Top SchoolKim Thoenen is a seasoned founder and engineer with 13 years of experience designing, building and operating Python/Django systems on Linux, macOS and major cloud platforms (AWS, GCP). He blends hands-on backend development and DevOps leadership—most recently founding Thoenen Solutions after leading DevOps and infrastructure teams at Sherpany and building Divio’s cloud platform. A strong proponent of TDD, automated testing and microservices, Kim has contributed to prominent open-source Django projects such as django-cms and djangocms-text-ckeditor, improving internationalization, plugin behavior and documentation. Based in Zurich, he pairs practical cloud-native engineering with a knack for clearing thorny integration and migration issues that often hide behind seemingly simple web features.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at ZHAW School of EngineeringInformatiker EFZ mit BMS, Computer Science, Informatiker EFZ mit BMS, Computer Science at Informatikmittelschule Hottingen
German, English
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Github Skills (15)
django-cms10
cms10
backend10
ckeditor10
back-end-development10
python10
django10
web-content9
documentation9
webpages9
version-control9
database-migration8
database-migrations8
try-except6
warnings6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
django-cms/djangocms-text-ckeditor
Jan 2014 - Jul 2016
Text Plugin for django CMS using CKEditor 4
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:17 commits, 2 PRs, 3 pushes in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Kim primarily focused on enhancing the functionality of the Django CMS text editor plugin. Their contributions include adding and modifying translatable content handling for link plugins, updating imports for compatibility with newer CMS versions, and addressing circular import issues. They also made version bumps and addressed import deprecation warnings, suggesting a role in maintaining and updating the plugin. Further, they fixed an issue with migrations and updated dependencies, showing an understanding of the project's architecture and deployment processes.
cmstinymcepythonckeditororigami
django-cms/django-cms
Aug 2013 - Feb 2016
The easy-to-use and developer-friendly enterprise CMS powered by Django
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:63 commits, 2 PRs, 5 comments in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Kim primarily contributed to the documentation and code of the django-cms project. Their commits involved fixing documentation errors related to toolbars, including missing parameters in function definitions. They also added and modified documentation for accessing the toolbar through views. Furthermore, they extended a command related to language copy and incorporated modifications to plugin models, including getter and setter methods for translatable content, and several code cleanups.
cmspythondjango-frameworkdjangodjango-cms
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