Lorenz Junglas
Programmer at Facepunch Studios
Hamburg, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolLorenz Junglas is a versatile software engineer based in Hamburg with 11 years of experience spanning computer vision, graphics, game development and web/native apps. He combines academic grounding from KIT and a semester abroad in Lisbon with practical systems work—from video processing and synthetic-data pipelines at Fraunhofer to backend and consultancy roles at Netlight. Now at Facepunch Studios, he focuses on game-adjacent engineering while continuing to contribute to open-source tooling; his TypeScriptToLua commits extended the transpiler’s language features and fixed subtle code-generation bugs. Comfortable across backend systems, custom IPC, and real-time media processing, he has taught and mentored students in practical coding assignments. Known for improving correctness in complex codepaths (e.g., splice deletion order and string concatenation in transpilation), he brings a detail-oriented mindset to both research prototyping and production systems.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Semester abroad Master of Science Computer Science, Semester abroad Master of Science Computer Science at University of LisbonMaster of Science Computer Science, Master of Science Computer Science at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
German, English
Github Skills (14)
data-manipulation10
text-manipulation10
lua10
typescript10
typescripts10
strings10
transcode10
transpiler10
typescript-types10
data-structure9
algorithm9
data-structures9
algorithms9
unit-testing8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
TypeScriptToLua/TypeScriptToLua
Feb 2018 - Nov 2022
Typescript to lua transpiler. https://typescripttolua.github.io/
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:112 reviews, 267 commits, 122 PRs in 4 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Lorenz focused on enhancing the TypeScript to Lua transpiler by implementing new array and string functions, adding support for various binary operators, and expanding the capabilities of the class system with features like the custom constructors. They also addressed several bugs related to the order of deletion for splice array operations and the correct handling of string concatenation, improving the accuracy of the generated Lua code. The commits demonstrate a focus on expanding the feature set of the transpiler and fixing identified bugs.
luacompilerlua-transpilertranspilertypescript
TypeScriptToLua/lua-wasm-bindings
Mar 2021 - Sep 2022
Contributions:4 reviews, 64 commits, 4 PRs in 1 year 6 months
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