Simon Leischnig
Development Engineer at Spleenlab GmbH
Jena, Thuringia, Germany
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Top SchoolSimon Leischnig is a Development Engineer with 14 years of software experience, blending a strong academic background in autonomous systems (MSc) and published robotics research with hands-on product work at cryptool.org and Spleenlab. He is fluent in Java, Python, Scala (Scala 3.3.0 enthusiast), Bash and GNU/Linux tooling, and cares deeply about language-driven software architecture and modern programming paradigms. His profile combines lab-grade prototyping experience from DLR and TU Darmstadt with practical embedded tinkering—Raspberry Pi, Arduino, ESP8266—and even soldering and cable crimping. An obsessive VIM user and former JCrypTool project lead, he brings both meticulous developer ergonomics and open-source sensibilities to engineering teams. Multilingual (German native, C1 English and Spanish), he is based in Jena and known for mixing music, running and curiosity-driven exploration of tooling and languages.
14 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Technischen Universität DarmstadtUniversitat Politècnica de València
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (200)
vim10
sbt-plugin10
concurrent10
nim-language10
llm10
cryptography10
code-completion10
rcp10
scala-native10
artifact10
scala10
dotty10
openai10
zinc10
eclipse10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
simlei/vim-qf
Nov 2018 - Jul 2023
Tame the quickfix window
Contributions:7 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 9 months
quickfixopengl3window
simlei/core
Jan 2018 - Dec 2021
JCrypTool Core fork for various usages
Contributions:7 releases, 8 PRs, 40 pushes in 3 years 11 months
java
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