Marcel Gerber
Full Stack Engineer at Our World in Data
Augsburg, Bavaria, Germany
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Top SchoolMarcel Gerber is a Full Stack Engineer with 13 years of experience, currently building interactive, data-driven tools at Our World in Data from Augsburg, Germany. He blends strong front-end craftsmanship—evident from contributions to CodeMirror and Brackets extensions—with backend and release automation expertise, having improved multi-platform build and versioning pipelines. Marcel's academic path spans law and computer science (including an M.Sc. from RWTH Aachen and exchange at Chalmers), giving him uncommon cross-disciplinary rigor and a knack for clear, localized UX (he’s added German translations and usability fixes to open-source projects). He has shipped production desktop and web apps in regulated domains and contributed to widely used open-source editors, showing a balance of attention to detail and large-scale impact.
13 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) Computer Science at The Julius Maximilians University of WürzburgMaster of Science (M.Sc.) Computer Science, Master of Science (M.Sc.) Computer Science at RWTH Aachen UniversityExchange Computer Science, Exchange Computer Science at Chalmers University of TechnologyAbitur, Abitur at Walther-Rathenau-Gymnasium Schweinfurt
German, English, Swedish, Spanish
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Github Skills (38)
markdown10
editors10
git10
javascript10
text-editor10
css10
bash10
editor10
gruntjs10
release-management10
script10
localization10
markdown-it10
build-automation10
code-editor10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
adobe/brackets-shell
Aug 2014 - Jun 2017
CEF3-based application shell for Brackets.
Role in this project:
Automation Engineer / Build & Release Engineer
Automation Engineer / Build & Release EngineerContributions:17 commits, 12 PRs, 8 pushes in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Marcel focused on automating and improving the build and release processes for the Brackets application. They modified build scripts and configuration files to correctly set release numbers and versions across multiple platforms (Windows, Mac, and Linux). Their commits involved updating build tools and scripts, modifying installation packages and file structures to streamline deployments. They also addressed conflicts from upstream merges and fixed inconsistencies in versioning.
extendscriptcef3bracketsextensibilityshell
brackets-userland/brackets-git
Oct 2013 - May 2016
brackets-git — git extension for adobe/brackets
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:66 commits, 7 PRs, 10 comments in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Marcel primarily contributed to the brackets-git extension by adding and improving localization features, specifically adding German translations and refining existing ones. They also made minor code improvements, such as fixing typos and removing unnecessary code. Furthermore, the user added features such as showing file history, fixing the display of dates in history, and adding a settings button to the panel, indicating they worked on both the UI and underlying functionality of the extension.
git-extensionadobeversion-controlbracketsadobe-brackets
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