Lucas Bickel
IT-Reaktion at Adfinis AG
Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Summary
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RockstarLucas Bickel is a pragmatic software developer and long-time open source hacker based in Bern, Switzerland, with 15 years of professional experience spanning radio station operations and enterprise software. He balances a dual role at Radio RaBe and Adfinis AG, bringing production-hardened back-end skills to both community projects and commercial clients. A committed contributor to LibreTime, he has improved test coverage, CI, and database stability for the radio-broadcast automation platform used by community stations worldwide. Known for strong opinions and a collaborator's mindset, he gravitates toward vendorizing dependencies and making upgrades reproducible and testable. Comfortable in legacy and modern stacks alike, he quietly focuses on reliability and automation rather than flashy front-end work.
15 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
German, English, French
Github Skills (10)
php10
phpunit10
testing10
composer9
travis-ci9
postgresql8
database-management8
audio-applications6
broadcasting5
broadcast5
Programming languages (26)
Github contributions (5)
libretime/libretime
Jul 2015 - Jan 2021
LibreTime: Radio Broadcast & Automation Platform
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 releases, 46 reviews, 364 commits in 5 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Lucas's commits primarily focus on improving the test suite and the overall stability of the LibreTime platform. They made significant changes to vendorize dependencies, update PHPUnit, and configure Travis CI for automated testing. The user also addressed issues related to database testing, including the creation of test databases and the adjustment of credentials. Further contributions included fixes for database upgrades.
icecastradio-stationbroadcastaudiostudio
wellenplan/directus-extension-duration-interface
May 2022 - Dec 2022
Duration Interface Extension for Directus
Contributions:5 commits, 57 PRs, 63 pushes in 7 months
directusdelaymanim
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