Roland Bär
CTO at RKValidate Software Pvt. Ltd.
Offenburg, Baden-Württemberg, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolRoland Bär is a seasoned CTO with 19 years of software engineering experience, specialising in compiler construction and testing tools. Based in Offenburg, he leads RKValidate, the team behind RKT r a c e r code-coverage tooling that supports languages from C/C++ to Go and Swift, combining hands-on engineering with product leadership. His background spans R&D and QA roles since the late 1990s, giving him deep practical knowledge of test automation, instrumentation and database-related systems. Roland blends low-level systems expertise with pragmatic tooling design to make complex codebases measurable and auditable. He trained in Nachrichtentechnik at Offenburg University of Applied Sciences, which underpins his methodical approach to reliability and diagnostics. Colleagues describe him as a quietly persistent problem-solver who evolves developer workflows rather than chasing buzzword trends.
18 years of coding experience
Abitur, Abitur at Gymnasium AchernNachrichtentechnik, Nachrichtentechnik at Offenburg University of Applied Sciences
Welsh
Github Skills (30)
shader9
partial9
hlsl8
compiz8
glsl8
driver7
gnu5
server5
daemon5
compiler5
dbus5
linux5
python5
x114
plugin4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
twiddletec/glslang
Jan 2019 - Jan 2019
Khronos reference front-end for GLSL and ESSL, and sample SPIR-V generator
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
workitemesslasciidoctorkhronosspir-v
twiddletec/uninstlog
Sep 2017 - Sep 2017
Contributions:1 push in 1 day
nsisheaderuninstallerinstalledfile-header
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