Tassilo Karge
Senior Software Engineer Team Lead at itestra
Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
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Top SchoolTassilo Karge is a Senior Software Engineer and team lead based in Stuttgart with 11 years of experience shaping software renovation and product development. At itestra he progressed from software engineer to project lead and now leads a team, focusing on modernizing legacy systems and delivering maintainable architectures. He brings hands-on full‑stack experience—ranging from iOS app development in Objective‑C/Swift to tooling for Model Based Systems Engineering—and a pragmatic approach to refactoring. An active open-source contributor, he improved the macOS RSS reader Vienna by disentangling tab management and polishing UI/keyboard interactions, showing attention to UX details beyond core logic. Tassilo holds an M.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of Konstanz and combines academic rigor with practical delivery in cross‑disciplinary teams. Colleagues can expect a steady technical lead who values clean code, incremental improvement, and shipping features that matter to users.
11 years of coding experience
Master of Science - MS Informatik, Master of Science - MS Informatik at University of Konstanz
Github Skills (8)
objective-c10
macos10
rss-reader10
ui-design9
front-end-development9
uid9
wkwebview9
swift7
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
ViennaRSS/vienna-rss
Feb 2018 - Jan 2023
Vienna is a free and open-source RSS/Atom newsreader for macOS.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:57 reviews, 148 commits, 36 PRs in 4 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Tassilo's commits primarily focused on enhancing the RSS/Atom newsreader for macOS, Vienna. Their work involved introducing new options to customize tab reading behavior, including options for selecting previous or next tab on closing, and managing the order of tab view items. The user also contributed to the disentanglement of tab creation competences, moving them to the browser component, and refactored the UI to integrate with MMTabBar control, improving the user experience. The commits also involved localization and keyboard shortcuts.
rssrss-readeratom-readerviennanewsreader
TAKeanice/MMTabBarView
Mar 2018 - Feb 2021
A Mac OS X tab bar view that works on 10.9+ with Xcode 8. Pull requests welcomed.
Contributions:1 PR, 24 pushes, 15 branches in 2 years 11 months
mac-osmacpull-requestsswiftos-x
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