Nicolas Lell
PHD Student at Ulm University
Ulm, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
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Top SchoolNicolas Lell is a PhD student and software engineer based in Ulm, Germany with five years of hands-on experience building performant GUI and systems software. He contributes to notable open-source Rust projects like emilk/egui, improving cross-platform immediate-mode UI components, optimizing build times, and enhancing text-edit and drawing features. Combining academic research at Ulm University with practical full-stack Rust development, he bridges rigorous problem-solving and production-focused implementation. Known for careful refactoring and dependency modernization, he brings a pragmatic engineering mindset to both research prototypes and reusable libraries.
5 years of coding experience
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Ulm University
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Github Skills (16)
egui10
rust10
front-end-development10
rust-wasm10
wasm-pack10
web-development9
game-development8
jpanel6
ios6
swift6
bash6
jbutton6
jframe6
swiftui6
carplay6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
emilk/egui
May 2024 - Mar 2025
egui: an easy-to-use immediate mode GUI in Rust that runs on both web and native
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:29 reviews, 35 PRs, 69 comments in 10 months
Contributions summary:Nicolas primarily contributes to the `egui` project, an immediate mode GUI library written in Rust, focused on both web and native platforms. Their work includes updating dependencies like `web-sys` and `wasm-bindgen`, and adding new features like `Slider::max_decimals_opt`. Additionally, the user refactored the codebase by removing wildcard imports and improved build times. They also made improvements to the text edit widget and added support for drawing lines.
immediate-modegamedevrustguigame-development
bircni/Raytracing
Jan 2024 - Feb 2025
Repository for the Raytracing Project @THU
Contributions:1 release, 13 PRs, 30 pushes in 1 year 1 month
eguiraytracerraytracingrust
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