Matthias Bilger
Developer Experience AI Expert at BMW Group
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolMatthias Bilger is a seasoned software leader with 13 years of experience, now serving as Global Lead Development Practice at BMW Group after a progressive engineering and architecture career within the company. He blends deep hands-on full-stack and embedded experience—ranging from ARM/Linux real-time systems to modern front-end widgets—with a strong focus on developer tooling and UX, evidenced by contributions to projects like zgen, dlt-viewer and Dashy. Matthias pairs technical rigor with a systems-thinking approach to human behavior and communication, training as a systemic coach and founding Grow - Tools to bridge coaching and engineering practice. Known for improving developer workflows and cross-platform usability, he brings a methodical mindset to reveal and structure hidden complexity in software and teams. Based in Munich, he balances curiosity-driven hobbies (vim, bees, DnD) with pragmatic delivery of robust, user-centered solutions.
13 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Diplom-Informatiker Informatik, Diplom-Informatiker Informatik at Hochschule für angewandte Wissenschaften Kempten
Github Skills (30)
git10
web-widgets10
javascript10
c-language10
qt10
widgets10
plugin-development10
user-interface10
graphical-user-interface10
sc10
human-interface10
scs10
vue10
cprogramming-language10
zsh10
Programming languages (28)
Github contributions (5)
tarjoilija/zgen
Jul 2015 - Dec 2015
A lightweight and simple plugin manager for ZSH
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 7 PRs, 34 comments in 5 months
Contributions summary:Matthias significantly enhanced the Zsh plugin manager by introducing features like checking for file changes on initialization, enabling integration with Prezto, and adding prezto module loading capabilities. They implemented functionality to load Prezto modules, set Prezto options, and load the Prezto configurations, streamlining the management of Zsh plugins. Additionally, the user improved error handling and added help messages.
zsh
COVESA/dlt-viewer
Nov 2020 - Nov 2020
Diagnostic Log and Trace viewing program
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1 review, 10 commits, 7 PRs in 7 days
Contributions summary:Matthias primarily contributed to the `dlt-viewer` project by implementing new features and fixing bugs related to the application's core functionality. Their work included enabling default filter appending, modifying UI elements to improve search functionality, and addressing issues with filter loading from subfolders. Furthermore, the user focused on improving the user interface and user experience by updating the application for macOS compatibility and providing the user a searchable combo box for default filters.
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