Sven Gehring
Lead Software Engineer at René Koch AG
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Summary
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RockstarSven Gehring is a Lead Software Engineer based in Zurich with 11 years of hands-on experience blending embedded-electronics roots and modern cloud-native software. At René Koch AG he leads development and architecture for KochCloud, bringing legacy intercom systems online across Switzerland while coordinating an engineering team. A self-taught, battle-tested developer and open-source contributor, Sven has shipped front-end features for the Ember-based Kitsu web app and improved Elixir docs generation in the ExDoc project. He combines full-stack proficiency with a pragmatic systems mindset—equally comfortable implementing UI i18n and hardening backend link generation—and outside work channels his engineering curiosity into quadcopter projects.
11 years of coding experience
German, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (21)
javascript10
elixir10
webpages10
web-content10
emberjs10
front-end-development10
html10
documentation10
rails-i18n9
handlebars9
ember-i18n9
i18n-js9
css8
animate7
google-chrome-extension6
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
elixir-lang/ex_doc
Jul 2017 - Aug 2019
ExDoc produces HTML and EPUB documentation for Elixir projects
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 12 PRs, 56 comments in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Sven contributed to the ExDoc project by implementing and improving features related to documentation generation for Elixir projects. Their work included fixing issues with link generation, ensuring unique anchor IDs for headings, and rendering escaped characters correctly in the sidebar. They also added a quick-switch modal for easy navigation within HexDocs and improved the autolinking functionality to support multiple arities.
documentation-generatorelixirepub
hummingbird-me/kitsu-web
Oct 2016 - Dec 2016
:fire: Web app for Kitsu
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:86 commits, 12 PRs, 79 pushes in 2 months
Contributions summary:Sven primarily contributed to the frontend development of the Kitsu web application. Their work involved implementing new UI elements, such as the edit profile navigation and the follow button. They also focused on internationalization, adding i18n support for various linked profiles and improving user experience. The user demonstrated skills in Ember.js and related frontend technologies.
kitsureacttranslationsjavascriptcrowdin
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