Raphael Jud
Projektleiter DESIGN&DEVELOPMENT IPEK at OST – Ostschweizer Fachhochschule
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Top SchoolRaphael Jud is a project lead in design and development at IPEK with 11 years of hands-on experience bridging mechanical engineering and product development. Based in Zurich, he combines a Bachelor in Mechanical Engineering/Innovation with practical skills from roles ranging from polymechanic apprentice to development engineer, giving him rare fluency across prototyping, fixture building and systems design. He excels at turning research and technical requirements into buildable solutions, having led projects at OST and contributed to applied development at HSR. Raphael also improves technical user experience through clear documentation—evidenced by his technical-writing contributions to the popular xonsh open-source shell—showing he values both precision engineering and accessible tooling.
11 years of coding experience
Bachelor, Maschinentechnik | Innovation, Bachelor, Maschinentechnik | Innovation at HSR Hochschule für Technik Rapperswil
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Github Skills (20)
restructuredtext10
learn-ruby-on-rails10
user-manual10
basics10
xonsh10
shell10
documentation10
python9
cli8
command-line8
floating-point6
virtualenv6
docx6
bash6
github6
Programming languages (43)
Github contributions (5)
xonsh/xonsh
Jan 2017 - Aug 2020
:shell: Python-powered shell. Full-featured and cross-platform.
Role in this project:
Technical Writer
Technical WriterContributions:3 reviews, 12 commits, 5 PRs in 3 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Raphael primarily focused on improving the project's documentation and tutorial content within the `xonsh` shell repository. They corrected grammatical errors, rephrased existing documentation to clarify complex concepts, and updated code snippets in the tutorial to reflect the latest Xonsh version. The user's contributions aimed to enhance the tutorial's accuracy, clarity, and user-friendliness, ensuring it effectively guides users through the features and usage of Xonsh.
unixiterm2pythonsystem-administrationxonsh
das-g/nixpkgs
Sep 2017 - Mar 2025
Nix Packages collection
Contributions:1 PR, 127 pushes, 156 branches in 7 years 7 months
nixosnix-packages
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