Paul Braeuning is an IT developer and cloud administrator with seven years of hands-on experience blending QA, DevOps and automation across Azure, AWS and GCP. Based in Leipzig, he moved from video game QA into building and scripting IT automation (Python and .NET) and now manages company cloud infrastructure and daily IT operations at Appsfactory. He contributes front-end theming and mobile-friendly UI work to the notable open-source metasearch engine SearXNG, demonstrating a practical eye for UX in privacy-focused projects. Paul holds a BSc in Computer Science from HTWK Leipzig and brings a pragmatic combination of testing discipline, infrastructure automation and UI polish to solve cross-functional operational challenges.
7 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at HTWK Leipzig
SearXNG is a free internet metasearch engine which aggregates results from various search services and databases. Users are neither tracked nor profiled.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Contributions:133 reviews, 112 commits, 79 PRs in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Paul primarily contributed to the theming and UI aspects of the SearXNG metasearch engine. Their work involved modifying CSS, LESS, and HTML templates to refine the visual presentation, including changes to the search form, result layout, and preference settings. They also focused on implementing the new color scheme and mobile-friendly design updates, as well as ensuring proper display of image content on the platform. The user added, updated and removed several CSS components.
Contributions:81 commits, 42 pushes, 6 branches in 1 year 9 months
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