Leon Richardt
Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter at Universität Osnabrück
Osnabrück, Lower Saxony, Germany
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Top SchoolLeon Richardt is a research-focused software engineer and PhD student at Universität Osnabrück’s Distributed Systems Group with eight years of hands-on experience in distributed systems, network emulation, and wireless protocols. Currently working as a Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter, he combines academic research—on topics like FEC for TCP/IP, energy-aware traffic engineering, and efficient drone image transfer—with practical software development and student instruction. His open-source contributions include front-end UX improvements to the popular Twitch chat client Chatterino, showing attention to usability details such as emote completion and case-sensitive highlights. Comfortable across simulation, emulation, and real-world networking constraints, he brings both rigorous measurement-driven research and pragmatic engineering to system design. Colleagues value him for bridging deep technical investigation with user-facing polish that improves developer and end-user workflows.
8 years of coding experience
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Universität Osnabrück
Github Skills (11)
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front-end-development10
ui-design10
twitch9
chat9
windows6
macos6
linux6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
Chatterino/chatterino2
Aug 2019 - Nov 2022
Chat client for https://twitch.tv
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:165 reviews, 55 commits, 54 PRs in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Leon primarily focused on improving the user interface and user experience of the chat client. They fixed a bug related to the "Manage Accounts" button and implemented improvements to the emote tab completion functionality, including searching for substrings and adding a setting for prefix/substring completion. Additional contributions include addressing a bug related to emote completion and adding features such as case-sensitivity for highlights.
windowschat-clientchatlinuxtwitch-tv
leon-richardt/chatterino2
Aug 2019 - Apr 2023
Chat client for twitch.tv
Contributions:1 PR, 381 pushes, 110 branches in 3 years 8 months
twitchchatchat-clienttwitch-tv
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