Per Guth
Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
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Top SchoolPer Guth is a software engineer and entrepreneur with 11 years of experience driving digital transformation from prototype to production. As co-founder and former managing partner at Thingylabs, he led hiring, architecture, full-stack development and orchestration to scale platform features into reliable systems. He bridges technical and managerial worlds, having acted as a technical liaison at Bosch, ARENA2036 and the University of Stuttgart and coached teams through complex technical decisions. An active contributor to open source documentation—improving installer guides and user-facing docs for the well-known borgbackup project—he combines pragmatic engineering with a careful focus on usability. Based in Stuttgart, he pairs a Mobile Media BS with studies in philosophy and math, bringing interdisciplinary thinking to product and technical trade-offs.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Mobile Media, Bachelor of Science - BS, Mobile Media at Stuttgart Media UniversityPhilosophy/Ethics, Mathematics (Teaching Degree), Philosophy/Ethics, Mathematics (Teaching Degree) at University of Stuttgart
English, German, French, Spanish, Chinese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (17)
restructuredtext10
rs10
documentation10
ping6
repair6
linux6
callable6
multithreading6
java6
filesystem6
btrfs6
python4
compression3
ssh3
encryption3
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
borgbackup/borg
Jun 2015 - Aug 2015
Deduplicating archiver with compression and authenticated encryption.
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:9 commits, 1 PR, 7 pushes in 2 months
Contributions summary:Per primarily contributed to the project's documentation, updating installation instructions for various platforms and adding dependency lists. They also fixed links within the README and added references to related projects such as BorgWeb. Furthermore, they made minor changes to the copyright notice and added a favicon to the documentation, indicating a focus on improving the project's user-facing documentation and presentation.
pythondedupecompressionsshdeduplication
perguth/ethical-design-manifesto
Nov 2015 - Nov 2019
Contributions:1 release, 8 commits, 9 pushes in 4 years 1 month
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