Simon Ihmig
Senior Engineer II at CrowdStrike
Henstedt-Ulzburg, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
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Top SchoolSimon Ihmig is a Senior Engineer with 12 years of experience building web applications, leading teams, and shipping production-ready JavaScript/TypeScript systems. A long-time Ember.js enthusiast and former co-founder of kaliber5, he now works at CrowdStrike where he blends hands-on engineering with technical leadership. He has a proven track record contributing to major open-source projects—improving Ember's build system (embroider), the Ember CLI, and even adding features to the Babylon.js renderer such as WebP support and autoplay-safe video textures. Comfortable across full-stack concerns, Simon focuses on developer ergonomics, build tooling, responsive asset handling, and pragmatic TypeScript adoption. Based in northern Germany, he combines entrepreneurial experience running firms with deep OSS involvement, often fixing subtle edge-case bugs that improve reliability for many users.
12 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma, Computer Science, Diploma, Computer Science at University Hamburg
German, English
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Github Skills (29)
webgl10
javascript10
game-engine10
handlebars10
image-optimization10
responsive-design10
typescript10
ember-cli10
babylonjs10
glimmerjs10
emberjs10
ember10
typescript-types10
typescripts10
web-development10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
ember-cli/ember-cli
Dec 2016 - Oct 2022
The Ember.js command line utility.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:33 reviews, 27 commits, 10 PRs in 5 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Simon primarily contributed to the Ember.js command-line utility, focusing on improving its functionality and maintainability. Their work included fixing API documentation, making project configurations public, and merging code changes. They also implemented enhancements like using `const/let` in all blueprints, improving jQuery deprecation messages, and adding TypeScript support.
ember-clijavascriptcommand-line-utilityemberember-js
embroider-build/embroider
Oct 2019 - Jan 2023
Compiling Ember apps into spec-compliant, modern Javascript.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:67 reviews, 43 commits, 85 PRs in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Simon primarily focused on enhancing the Ember.js build process, addressing issues related to addon style handling and macro implementations. Their contributions include fixing bugs in the `treeForStyles` hook, which ensures styles are correctly placed, and updating Handlebars macros based on RFC specifications. They also added compatibility with ember-element-helper and worked on fingerprinted assets and other related improvements.
ember-addoncompliantjavascriptspec-compliantspec
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