Lorenz Leitner
Senior Software Engineer at Acuity Analytics
Graz, Styria, Austria
Summary
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Top SchoolLorenz Leitner is a Senior Software Engineer based in Graz, Austria with 11 years of hands-on experience building backend systems and shipping pragmatic solutions across scale-ups and consulting firms. He progressed from internships and teaching assistant roles into production engineering at Leftshift One and now leads efforts at Acuity Analytics after a series of company acquisitions. Lorenz contributes to open-source tooling—improving image handling and color-scheme generation for the popular pywal project—demonstrating attention to usability, CLI ergonomics, and maintainability. With an academic foundation in Software Engineering and Management from TU Graz, he blends strong engineering fundamentals with practical product-facing experience. Colleagues rely on him for iterative problem solving and quietly improving developer workflows behind the scenes.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Dipl.-Ing. / Master of Science (MSc) Software Engineering and Management, Dipl.-Ing. / Master of Science (MSc) Software Engineering and Management at Technische Universität GrazHigh School High school education with Computer Science, High School High school education with Computer Science at BG Carneri
English, German
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Github Skills (14)
python10
image-processing10
command-line9
cli9
command-line-interface9
terminal-emulator8
scanf6
nginx6
docker6
material-ui6
while-loop6
multithreading6
operating-system6
react6
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
dylanaraps/pywal
Mar 2019 - Oct 2019
🎨 Generate and change color-schemes on the fly.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:21 commits, 4 PRs, 16 comments in 6 months
Contributions summary:Lorenz primarily focused on improving the image handling and color scheme generation functionalities of the pywal project. The user implemented features for recursive image searching, iterative image selection, and managing the reuse of the last used wallpaper. They also added command-line arguments and corrected various indentation issues, enhancing the overall usability and maintainability of the project.
terminal-emulatorscolor-schemeson-the-flywalschemes
LoLei/blog
Sep 2015 - Jun 2020
My personal blog built using Jekyll
Contributions:12 PRs, 106 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 9 months
jekyllmy-personal-blog
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