Patrick Horlebein
Teamlead at CHECK24 Vergleichsportal
Frankfurt Rhine-Main Metropolitan Area Germany
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Top SchoolPatrick Horlebein is a Teamlead and software engineer with 11 years of experience based in the Frankfurt Rhine-Main area, blending game, mobile, and backend development with a user-centered mindset. At CHECK24 he progressed from developer to team lead, delivering production systems while coaching teams and maintaining a focus on delightful user experiences. His M.Sc. in Computer Graphics and early work in games inform a strong graphics and UI sensibility, visible in open-source contributions such as macOS OpenGL context improvements in glutin and OLED UI enhancements for the IronOS soldering-iron firmware. Comfortable across embedded, desktop, and web stacks, he combines hands-on implementation skills with pragmatic leadership to ship polished features. Colleagues would note his attention to smoother user interactions—whether animating menu transitions on tiny displays or refining graphics context selection on macOS.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Graphics, Master of Science (M.Sc.), Computer Graphics at University of Applied Sciences Darmstadt
German, English
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Github Skills (21)
c-language10
firmware10
sys10
windowing10
embedded10
macos10
rust10
windows-gui10
cprogramming-language10
opengl10
rust-lang9
animation7
uikit6
swiftui6
uibarbuttonitem6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
Ralim/IronOS
Apr 2020 - Apr 2020
Open Source Soldering Iron firmware
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:15 commits, 2 PRs, 7 comments in 22 days
Contributions summary:Patrick focused on enhancing the OLED display functionality for the soldering iron firmware. Their work involved adding a scrolling indicator to the menu system, improving the user interface. The commits show development of animation effects for transitions between menus. They also refactored the code to use a secondary framebuffer for smoother navigation.
hextemperature-controlts100pinecilfirmware
rust-windowing/glutin
Dec 2014 - Dec 2014
A low-level library for OpenGL context creation
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:5 commits in 1 day
Contributions summary:Patrick primarily focused on adding and refining OpenGL context creation features, specifically for macOS. Their contributions involved implementing support for selecting OpenGL versions, addressing deprecation warnings, and cleaning up match clauses. They also addressed dependency issues and fixed missing imports related to the macOS implementation.
openglesopengl-esrustopenglpure-rust
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