Thore Straßburg
Software Engineer at DigitalService
Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolThore Straßburg is a software engineer based in Germany with a decade of hands-on experience building developer-focused tools and distributed finance systems. He has worked on Trustlines, Raiden and Beamer at brainbot and now contributes to public digital services, combining protocol-level thinking with practical product delivery. Thore is comfortable across the stack—improving GraphQL-driven interfaces, refining UI/UX inside Neovim plugins, and shaping backend integrations—demonstrated by his full‑stack enhancements to the octo.nvim GitHub client. His background includes industrial PLM work at Siemens and a computer science MS from TU Berlin, reflecting a balance of engineering rigor and user-centered design. Colleagues would note his knack for translating complex data models into clearer visual representations and lightweight developer tools.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, 1.5, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, 1.5 at Technische Universität Berlin
German, English
Github Skills (8)
neovim10
lua10
graphql10
user-interface10
github10
wordpress-graphql10
wpgraphql10
json8
Programming languages (24)
Github contributions (5)
pwntester/octo.nvim
Mar 2021 - Mar 2021
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Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:54 reviews, 24 commits, 3 PRs in 6 days
Contributions summary:Thore primarily focused on enhancing the user interface and expanding functionality within the Neovim plugin for interacting with GitHub. They implemented a bubble-based UI for improved visual representation of information, including user attribution, status indicators, and labels. Their contributions involved modifying GraphQL queries to include additional fields and improving the styling and presentation of the UI elements. The user also refactored and extended code related to comment displays and various data representations.
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weilbith/keyboard_firmware
Oct 2019 - Jan 2022
Contributions:58 commits, 15 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 2 months
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