Raphael Bircher
President at vefko
Schaffhausen, Schaffhausen, Switzerland
Summary
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SeniorRaphael Bircher is an experienced open-source software professional and quality assurance specialist with 14 years in the tech ecosystem and over eight years of active leadership in the Apache OpenOffice community as a committer and PMC/IPMC member. Based in Schaffhausen, Switzerland, he rents his QA expertise to organizations seeking focused testing and process improvements for Apache OpenOffice, combining hands-on QA work with occasional development. He founded and presides over Vefko, a Swiss nonprofit building communication and organization software while promoting workforce inclusion for people with disabilities, reflecting his commitment to social impact through technology. Known for deep institutional knowledge of the OpenOffice project and pragmatic QA approach, he emphasizes delivering measurable quality gains even when perfection can't be guaranteed.
14 years of coding experience
Github Skills (52)
libreoffice10
gerrit10
zip10
openoffice10
apache9
java9
doc8
bonjour8
excel8
docx8
odt8
hellosystem8
zeroconf7
xlsx7
nodejs7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
rbircher/rbircher.github.io
Jul 2016 - May 2018
Contributions:70 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 10 months
rbircher/libo-core
Jun 2023 - Jul 2023
Contributions:4 pushes in 7 days
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