Stefan Küng
Softwareingenieur at Zünd Systemtechnik AG
Altstätten, St. Gallen, Switzerland
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Top SchoolStefan Küng is a seasoned Swiss software engineer with 23 years of experience building desktop and embedded systems, currently contributing at Zünd Systemtechnik. Best known as a developer of TortoiseSVN and an active maintainer on TortoiseGit, he brings deep Windows shell-extension and version-control expertise while modernizing long-lived C++ codebases. His background spans firmware and PLC development, CAD software with OpenGL, and tooling for fast regex-based file search (grepWin), reflecting a rare blend of low-level systems, UI design, and developer tooling. Trained as an electrical engineer at ETH Zürich, he combines rigorous engineering foundations with practical product-focused delivery and a knack for evolving legacy projects into modern, maintainable solutions.
23 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
dipl. El. Ing., Electronics, dipl. El. Ing., Electronics at ETH Zürich
English, German
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Github Skills (20)
git10
c-language10
user-interface10
graphical-user-interface10
human-interface10
cprogramming-language10
regular-expression9
fileio9
file-access9
boost9
file-processing9
file-handling9
shell8
sh8
unicode8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
TortoiseGit/TortoiseGit
Nov 2011 - Nov 2022
Windows Explorer Extension to Operate Git; Mirror of official repository https://tortoisegit.org/sourcecode
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:48 commits, 2 PRs, 6 comments in 11 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Stefan primarily worked on refactoring and modernizing the codebase by replacing SVN references with GIT. They made substantial code changes in the `GitStatusListCtrl.cpp` file. Additional contributions include extending the hook scripts to use information from the project properties. They also implemented a feature to automatically set the path for the submodule.
windowssourcecodeoperategit-mirrortortoisegit
stefankueng/sktoolslib
Nov 2012 - Jan 2023
Contributions:377 commits, 8 PRs, 121 pushes in 10 years 3 months
windows
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