Thomas Neidhart
Project Lead Open VSX at Eclipse Foundation
Ludersdorf-Wilfersdorf, Styria, Austria
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Top SchoolThomas Neidhart is a pragmatic, hands-on software engineer and long-time open-source committer with 14 years of experience building, stabilizing and testing complex backend systems. He has deep expertise in maintaining and improving large Java libraries—contributing bug fixes, test automation and documentation across many high-profile Apache Commons projects such as Commons Math, VFS, Lang and CLI. Equally comfortable as a developer, team lead and product engineer, he has led teams and owned product areas at companies from GuardSquare to sentiance while also running self-employed engagements. Known for clean, maintainable code and a focus on reliability, he excels at improving numerical stability, file-system correctness and test coverage in legacy codebases. Based in Styria, Austria, he pairs a tinkerer’s curiosity with rigorous engineering discipline and a decade-plus track record of shipping practical solutions and mentoring others.
15 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.), Telematics, Master of Science (M.S.), Telematics at Technische Universität Graz
English, German, Dutch, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (43)
algorithm10
cli10
apache-commons10
test-automation10
unit-testing10
algorithms10
filesystem10
commons10
javadoc10
testing10
apache10
file-operations10
data-structure10
java10
implement10
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
apache/commons-collections
Apr 2012 - Dec 2015
Apache Commons Collections
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:720 commits, 1 comment in 3 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Thomas appears to have been involved in fixing and improving the Apache Commons Collections library. Their contributions include fixing javadoc, adding null checks, improving performance of key methods, and fixing IndexOutOfBoundsExceptions. They also made improvements in the form of more context information when throwing a NoSuchElementException and improved performance of multiple functions.
apache-commonscommons
apache/commons-math
Jan 2012 - Aug 2016
Apache Commons Math
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:542 commits in 4 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Thomas's commits focused on fixing bugs and improving the testability of the Apache Commons Math library, specifically within the linear algebra domain. The user fixed test failures related to numerical stability and the calculation of the two-sample Kolmogorov-Smirnov test statistic in cases with ties. Additionally, the user modified or refactored code associated to provide proper and exhaustive testing of the implemented components within the library. The fixes involved a broad spectrum of classes, demonstrating a good knowledge of the library's architecture.
apache-commonsjavamathstatpolynomial
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