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Lukas Pistrol is an iOS and macOS developer with eight years of professional experience and a decade-long personal history with Swift, currently building mobile apps at RISE in Vienna while also working as an independent developer. He combines a formal background in mechatronics and a bachelor’s in computer software engineering to approach mobile UX and performance with systems-thinking and low-level attention to detail. Lukas contributes to open-source UI tooling—enhancing the popular STTextView TextKit2 component with customizable line-numbering and selection visuals—showing a knack for performant, reusable front-end components. Comfortable across solo projects and enterprise contexts, he focuses on shipping polished iOS experiences and clear, well-documented code.
7 years of coding experience
Bachelor's degree, Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Software Engineering at Vienna University of Technology
Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering, Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering at HTL Rennweg
Performant and reusable text view component (TextKit 2), with line numbers and more. UITextView / NSTextView replacement.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Contributions:6 commits, 3 PRs, 1 comment in 1 day
Contributions summary:Lukas contributed to the `sttextview` repository by implementing several UI-related features and customizations. These contributions included adding properties for customizing the appearance of the text view, such as colors for selected line highlighting and background selections. The user also added features to the line number ruler view, including customization options for separator color and baseline offset. Additionally, the user added comprehensive documentation comments to improve code readability and maintainability.
Contributions:31 commits, 25 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
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Lukas Pistrol - IOS App Developer at Self-employed