Philipp Mildenberger
Senior Software Engineer at GEOBILITY
Innsbruck, Tyrol, Austria
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Top SchoolPhilipp Mildenberger is a Senior Software Engineer based in Innsbruck with 11 years of professional experience building reliable, maintainable software across commercial and open-source projects. He currently engineers solutions at GEOBILITY and ARTFABRIK, bringing a depth of full-stack experience and a pragmatic approach to shipping features. An active OSS maintainer and contributor, Philipp has significant work on the popular Nix home-manager ecosystem and the Helix editor, improving language support, performance, and user-facing features like jump lists and path completion. He blends systems-level tooling knowledge (Nix, systemd, TOML configs) with editor and language tooling expertise, enabling smoother developer workflows. Known for thoughtful refactors and cross-cutting fixes, he often surfaces non-obvious improvements that boost long-term maintainability.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science at Universität Innsbruck
German, English
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Github Skills (27)
text-editor10
nix10
nixos10
dotfile10
home-manager10
rust10
syntax-highlighting10
nushell9
kakoune9
vim9
typescripts8
helix8
typescript-types8
typescript8
toml8
Programming languages (24)
Github contributions (5)
helix-editor/helix
Jan 2022 - Oct 2022
A post-modern modal text editor.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:134 reviews, 9 commits, 19 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:Philipp made significant contributions to the helix-editor project, focusing on enhancing the text editor's functionality and user experience. Their work included improvements to syntax highlighting for various languages like Nix, C#, and JavaScript/TypeScript, as well as adding support for new languages, such as Ungrammar and Yuck. They also implemented features like jumplist support for search and path completion, and refactored code for better performance and maintainability.
modalvimkakounerusttext-editor
nix-community/home-manager
Jul 2020 - Oct 2022
Manage a user environment using Nix [maintainer=@rycee]
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:13 reviews, 10 commits, 11 PRs in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Philipp contributed significantly to the `home-manager` project, demonstrating skills in Nix and related NixOS configurations. They developed and modified modules for various programs, including `nushell`, `helix`, and `udiskie`, implementing features and fixing bugs. The contributions involved writing TOML and TOML-like configuration files, and integrating with systems like systemd. Additionally, the user also implemented integration support for starship and made minor fixes for existing features.
nix-dotfilesnixosmaintainerhome-managerdotfiles
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