Lukas Heiligenbrunner is a software engineer with eight years of experience, currently building systems at BMW Group from Austria. With a background in artificial intelligence (BASc, Johannes Kepler Universität Linz) he blends algorithmic thinking with practical engineering, having worked previously at PROFACTOR GmbH. Lukas contributes to open source—improving LaTeX support in the IntelliJ ecosystem and packaging C/C++ libraries into Conan with cross-platform build workflows—showing attention to developer experience and build reliability. He strikes a balance between backend problem solving and build/release automation, and is comfortable untangling file-resolution and cross-platform build issues that often hide in mature projects.
8 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Artificial Intelligence, Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Artificial Intelligence at Johannes Kepler Universität Linz
Contributions:12 reviews, 9 commits, 1 PR in 3 months
Contributions summary:Lukas focused on integrating the Libconfig library into a Conan package, enabling easier dependency management and builds. They added the initial conanfile.py, and then subsequently refined it by adding correct header files and libs, removing unnecessary comments, and adapting to changes from another contributor. The user finalized the work by fixing Linux/Windows build compatibility issues and adding a GitHub build workflow.
LaTeX support for the IntelliJ platform by JetBrains.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Contributions:17 commits, 3 PRs, 27 comments in 11 days
Contributions summary:Lukas primarily focused on improving the LaTeX support for the IntelliJ platform. Their contributions involved fixing file-related issues, such as correctly resolving file paths for included graphics and correcting errors with multiple graphicspath definitions. They also worked on improving the autocompletion feature for picture paths and adding support for absolute paths in path completions. Furthermore, the user optimized the file finding process.
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Lukas Heiligenbrunner - Software Engineer at BMW Group