Rainer Simon
Professional Geek & International Man Of Mystery
Vienna, Austria
Summary
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SeniorRainer Simon is an independent software developer and self-styled "Professional Geek" based in Vienna, with 15 years of experience focused on Digital Humanities and front-end engineering. He blends pragmatic UI engineering with scholarly sensibilities, demonstrated by substantial contributions to popular image-annotation projects (Annotorious) where he refactored core libraries, implemented editor plugins, and improved annotator viewers and styles. As founder of rainersimon.io he delivers hands-on solutions that bridge research needs and usable web interfaces, often tackling messy data- and UX-driven problems. A curious collector of both useful and obscure knowledge, he favors elegant, maintainable front-end code that supports scholarly workflows and long-lived digital projects.
15 years of coding experience
German, English
Github Skills (8)
html10
css10
uid10
javascript10
front-end-development10
ui-design10
react10
preact9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
annotorious/annotorious
Mar 2020 - Jan 2023
Add image annotation functionality to any web page with a few lines of JavaScript.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:81 releases, 10 reviews, 684 commits in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Rainer primarily contributed to the development of the front-end, focusing on image annotation functionality. Their commits include setting up the project structure, implementing initial UI components, and integrating a custom editor plugin. The user's work is centered around building the user interface components for image annotation, including adding features for selecting and modifying shapes and labels.
javascript-libraryopenseadragonimage-annotationjavascriptiiif
annotorious/annotorious-v1
Aug 2012 - Apr 2020
Image Annotation for the Web - Annotorious Core Library
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 551 commits, 14 PRs in 7 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Rainer's contributions centered on refactoring and implementing UI components within the Annotorious core library. Key changes included the integration of the Plovr compiler and significant modifications to the image annotator and viewer components. The user also worked on style improvements, including the implementation of CSS for the application. Templates were also modified.
openseadragonimage-annotationiiifcornerstonecore-library
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