Rasmus Thomsen
Software Engineer at Rohde & Schwarz
Kiel, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolRasmus Thomsen is a software engineer with nine years of practical experience building and maintaining low-level and back-end systems, currently at Rohde & Schwarz and previously at DAMPSOFT. He holds a Master’s (Sehr gut) in Information Engineering and has taught university courses in Cloud Computing, OOP and C, reflecting strong foundations in both theory and pedagogy. An active open-source contributor and GNOME Foundation member, he has notable contributions to projects like gtk4-rs, the LDC D compiler, and the Conan Center Index—work that spans Rust bindings, compiler musl support, and package recipe maintenance. Comfortable debugging build systems and adapting code to new toolchains (e.g., Conan v2 and musl libc), he combines systems-level insight with practical cross-language experience. Based in Kiel, Germany, he brings a detail-oriented approach to system compatibility and library integration that often involves surfacing subtle platform-specific fixes.
10 years of coding experience
Master of Science - MS, Information Engineering, Sehr gut (1,2), Master of Science - MS, Information Engineering, Sehr gut (1,2) at Fachhochschule Kiel
Github Skills (41)
dependency-manager10
dependency-management10
debugging10
c-language10
posixct10
system-programming10
package-management10
dependency-analysis10
llvm10
testing10
conan10
gtk-rs10
gtk10
compiler-design10
compiler-compiler10
Programming languages (35)
Github contributions (5)
xi-editor/xi-editor
Jun 2019 - May 2020
A modern editor with a backend written in Rust.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 reviews, 19 commits, 30 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Rasmus primarily focused on debugging and improving the `trace` module of the `xi-editor` project. Their contributions included fixing compilation warnings, resolving issues with tests within the `chrome_trace_dump` functionality, and removing the `dict_payload` feature. They also addressed issues related to build configurations and dependency updates, specifically related to the `rope` and `core-lib` components.
backendrust
conan-io/conan-center-index
Jul 2022 - Jan 2023
Recipes for the ConanCenter repository
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:17 reviews, 3 commits, 26 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Rasmus primarily contributed to updating and maintaining recipes within the Conan Center Index, a repository for C++ package management. Their work involved upgrading dependencies like xerces-c, libcurl, and libpq to newer versions, updating OpenSSL versions within various recipes. They also addressed build issues and implemented fixes related to Conan v2 support, demonstrating proficiency in adapting existing packages to a newer package manager version. The user's involvement extends to modifying configuration files and patching build systems.
dependenciescpprecipespackage-managerconan-recipe
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