Simon Graband
Senior Software Engineer at EclipseSource
Munich, Bavaria, Germany
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolSimon Graband is a Senior Software Engineer based in Munich with six years of experience building full-stack developer tools and IDE frameworks at EclipseSource. He has played a key role in the widely used open-source Eclipse Theia project, modernizing the codebase to ES2017, adding performance measurement tooling, improving accessibility, and aligning terminal APIs with VS Code. A TUM-trained information systems specialist (BSc/MSc), Simon combines deep TypeScript expertise with a pragmatic focus on developer experience and production performance. He’s the kind of engineer who looks beyond features to infrastructure and compatibility improvements that benefit large developer ecosystems.
6 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Information Systems, Master of Science - MS, Information Systems at Technische Universität München
Github Skills (16)
typescript10
typescripts10
electron10
typescript-types10
editor9
cloud99
cloud9-ide9
editors9
api8
webview8
javascript8
android-webview8
api-design8
performance-measurement7
accessibility7
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
eclipse-theia/theia
Aug 2021 - Dec 2022
Eclipse Theia is a cloud & desktop IDE framework implemented in TypeScript.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:6 releases, 70 reviews, 10 commits in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Simon contributed significantly to the Eclipse Theia project, demonstrating expertise in enhancing the IDE framework. They transpiled the Theia project to ES2017, ensuring compatibility and performance improvements. Further contributions included the addition of performance measurement scripts and the implementation of accessibility features, demonstrating a focus on improving developer experience and code quality. They also aligned the window.createTerminal API with VSCode.
cloud-ideide-frameworkelectrontheiajavascript
sgraband/theia
Sep 2021 - Jul 2024
Eclipse Theia is a cloud & desktop IDE framework implemented in TypeScript.
Contributions:4 PRs, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 9 months
ide-frameworktheiajavascripteclipse-theiaide
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.