Pascal Büttiker is a founder and software architect with 16 years of experience building robust, scalable applications and running ElderByte AG from Aarau, Switzerland. He combines hands-on software design and DevOps with a passion for crafting maintainable architectures and customer-focused solutions. His background includes real-time client/server systems at Zühlke and UI prototyping for energy management at FHNW, reflecting strength across front-end and back-end concerns. An active open-source contributor, he improved dialog and UI components in well-known projects like MahApps.Metro and ControlsFX, bringing practical UX enhancements to desktop frameworks. Colleagues describe him as an architect who stays close to the code, iterating on both product strategy and implementation details.
16 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Computer Science, Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Computer Science at Blekinge Institute of Technology
Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Computer Science, Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Computer Science at Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz FHNW
High quality UI controls to complement the core JavaFX distribution
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Contributions:63 commits in 6 months
Contributions summary:Pascal primarily contributed to the development of user interface elements within the controlsfx/controlsfx repository. Their work included implementing a new BreadCrumbBar control, including its skin and button components. The user's commits demonstrate involvement in UI design, layout, and event handling related to the BreadCrumbBar's functionality, focusing on navigation and interaction. Further contributions included improvements to the GridView refresh and the implementation of a learning auto-completion example.
A framework that allows developers to cobble together a better UI for their own WPF applications with minimal effort.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 11 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Pascal focused on enhancing the dialog functionality within the MahApps.Metro framework. Their commits introduced features like awaiting dialog unloading events and refactored the approach to awaiting dialog closures. The user also modified the sample application to demonstrate the usage of the new dialog-related features, specifically around the new awaitable method and custom dialogs. These changes improve the framework's usability by providing more flexible ways to interact with dialogs.
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Pascal Büttiker - Founder Software Architect at ElderByte