Paul Gschwendtner
Senior Software Engineer at Google
Germany
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Paul Gschwendtner is a Senior Software Engineer based in Germany with 11 years of experience building developer tooling, infrastructure, and UI components for Angular and Angular Material. At Google he has advanced the Angular ecosystem—working on the CLI, component libraries, docs site, and build tool integrations—demonstrating deep full-stack and build-system expertise. His open-source contributions show a knack for stabilizing complex builds and migrations (ESM, pnpm, Bazel rules) as well as refining UX-level component behavior and test harnesses. He blends front-end craftsmanship (datepickers, sliders, layout) with backend/build engineering, making him effective at reducing friction across release and CI/CD pipelines. Colleagues rely on him to both fix subtle runtime bugs and drive larger migrations that keep projects compatible with evolving tooling. A less obvious strength is his repeated work on documentation and example infrastructure, which helps translate low-level fixes into better developer experiences.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Werdenfels-Gymnasium
German, English
Stackoverflow
1,993reputation
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14answers
1question
angular
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Github Skills (40)
javascript10
ui-components10
testing10
component-development10
css10
typescript10
build-system10
travis-ci10
cicd10
material-design10
bazel10
build-automation10
typescript-types10
angularjs10
html10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
angular/components
Jan 2016 - Jan 2023
Component infrastructure and Material Design components for Angular
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:5 releases, 1534 reviews, 2486 commits in 7 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Paul's commits primarily focus on enhancing the Angular component library. Their contributions include implementing test harnesses for the snack-bar, improving the MDC-based slider, and implementing selection list features. The user has been actively involved in updating and fixing existing components such as the dialog, menu and slider. The user has also been responsible for improving the example code, ensuring the project remains compatible with the latest framework versions.
materialmaterial-design-componentsinfrastructureangular-componentscomponents-design
angular/material.angular.io
Oct 2018 - Nov 2022
Docs site for Angular Components
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:92 reviews, 63 commits, 109 PRs in 4 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Paul primarily contributed to the documentation site for Angular Material components. Their work included fixing bugs related to table of contents functionality within the CDK, addressing issues with sticky table examples, and resolving problems with fragment links. They also refactored code to use documentation content from an NPM package and made updates to handle changes related to example viewing and Stackblitz integration. Overall, the user's contributions focused on improving the documentation site's functionality and ensuring accurate presentation of code examples.
docs-siteangular-2angularangular-components
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