Martin Giger
Software Engineer at thunderbird
Switzerland
Summary
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RockstarMartin Giger is a seasoned software engineer in Switzerland with 14 years of experience building reliable backend systems and developer tooling. A day-to-day JavaScript specialist, he has contributed to notable open-source projects such as Twurple (extending Twitch API and chat features) and maintained backend logic for node-sonos, improving robustness around Sonos topology and API parsing. His background in test automation for Mozilla's Add-on SDK underscores a strong focus on quality, localization, and maintainable test suites. Martin pairs pragmatic engineering with curiosity—by night he plays the euphonium, obsessively follows train tech, and explores browser extensions, video streaming culture and decentralisation. Colleagues rely on him for clear refactors and thoughtful handling of edge-case data, especially in real-time and streaming contexts. He brings a blend of hands-on coding, open-source collaboration, and attention to long-term stability.
14 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (31)
javascript10
apidoc10
api-client10
typescript10
sonos-api10
api10
typescript-types10
nodejs10
typescripts10
twitch-api10
home-automation10
test-automation10
testing9
webhooks9
firefox-addon9
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
twurple/twurple
Jan 2018 - Apr 2020
Interact with Twitch's API, chat and subscribe to events via PubSub and EventSub.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 8 commits, 6 PRs in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Martin primarily focused on extending the functionality of the `twurple` library, particularly the API interactions. They added new endpoints for unsupported Kraken events and Helix follows, and corrected the return types of existing functions. In addition, the user made changes to the emote parsing and display logic, and improved the emote URL generation, contributing to the features related to chat interaction.
pubsubtwitchwebhooksapiapi-client
mozilla/addon-sdk
Dec 2014 - Feb 2016
DEPRECATED - The Add-on SDK repository.
Role in this project:QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:6 commits, 1 PR in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Martin primarily contributed to testing efforts within the add-on SDK repository, which focuses on web extension development. Their work involved writing and modifying tests, including adding new test cases, enhancing existing ones, and refactoring tests for improved efficiency. The user also addressed specific bugs and improved the test coverage for localization features and preferences.
add-onsdkabandoned
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