Pascal Knecht
Software Engineer C Und Javascript at Idea Creation / E-GUMA Gutschein- und Ticketsystem
Bern, Bern, Switzerland
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Top SchoolPascal Knecht is a seasoned software engineer in Bern with 11 years crafting full-stack web solutions, primarily using C#, JavaScript, React and PHP. He designs elegant, user-focused experiences and has shipped high-traffic websites and e‑commerce systems—including a custom voucher platform and improvements across API, backoffice and customer shop layers. At Idea Creation he modernized legacy payment and CI/CD pipelines, optimized performance across C#, ASP.NET, MongoDB and MSSQL, and led developer-experience initiatives and onboarding. An active contributor to the Timber PHP project, he’s fixed URL/port edge cases and added image handling features like WebP and SVG support, showing attention to robustness in real-world deployments. Practical, detail-oriented and product-minded, he blends design sensibility from his FHNW background with hands-on engineering to turn complex requirements into reliable, maintainable software.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science FHNW, Bachelor of Science (B. Sc), iCompetence, Profilierung Design und Management, Informatik, 5.1, Bachelor of Science FHNW, Bachelor of Science (B. Sc), iCompetence, Profilierung Design und Management, Informatik, 5.1 at Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz FHNW
German, English
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Github Skills (16)
wordpress10
php10
url-parser10
url-encoding10
twig10
url-scheme10
url-parsing10
url-validation10
image-processing10
timber10
webp9
phpunit8
html6
woocommerce6
css6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
timber/timber
Jul 2018 - Feb 2019
Create WordPress themes with beautiful OOP code and the Twig Template Engine
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:17 commits, 7 PRs, 8 pushes in 6 months
Contributions summary:Pascal primarily focused on improving the Timber PHP framework, specifically addressing issues related to URL handling and port configurations within WordPress. Their contributions included fixing bugs in URLHelper.php and extending the framework's functionality to correctly handle URLs with specified server ports in different contexts. They also made several updates related to image processing, including the addition of WEBP image conversion and SVG handling.
template-enginetwigwordpressphptimber
zskarte/zskarte
Aug 2022 - Aug 2022
Zivilschutz-Karte allows to draw situation maps for disaster management
Contributions:27 reviews, 27 commits, 45 PRs in 4 days
kartedisasterdrawzivilschutzcollaboration
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