Till Smejkal
PHD Student at TU Dresden
Dresden, Saxony, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolTill Smejkal is a PhD student at TU Dresden with 13 years of software engineering experience focused on low-level systems and Wayland compositor ecosystems. He contributes substantial open-source work—improving Waybar’s taskbar features and modernizing Wayfire’s signal handling—demonstrating both frontend module polish and deep backend refactoring skills. His background includes industry research at Hewlett Packard Enterprise and internships at Citrix Online, blending academic rigor with practical product experience. Known for improving maintainability and interoperability, he has a knack for subtle protocol updates and user-facing refinements that enhance long-lived desktop components.
13 years of coding experience
Diplom-Informatiker, Informatik, 1.0, Diplom-Informatiker, Informatik, 1.0 at Technische Universität Dresden
German, English, French
Github Skills (15)
composite10
window-manager10
gtk10
c-language10
signal-handling10
cprogramming-language10
wayland10
co10
glib9
axway9
ws9
payment-gateway9
refactoring9
eway9
transit-gateway9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Alexays/Waybar
May 2020 - Dec 2020
Highly customizable Wayland bar for Sway and Wlroots based compositors. :v: :tada:
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:5 reviews, 11 commits, 5 PRs in 6 months
Contributions summary:Till primarily focused on enhancing the Waybar taskbar module. Their contributions included fixing click event handling, improving format options for the taskbar, and implementing proper trimming for format strings. Furthermore, they added support for multiple icon themes and updated the project to the latest version of the foreign toplevel manager protocol. These changes aimed to improve the taskbar's functionality, user interface customization, and compatibility.
statusbarswaywaylandtrayhighly-customizable
WayfireWM/wayfire
Nov 2021 - Nov 2021
A modular and extensible wayland compositor
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:1 review, 6 commits, 2 PRs in 6 days
Contributions summary:Till primarily focused on refactoring and improving the codebase related to the Wayland compositor. This included converting `signal_callback_t` to `signal_connection_t`, removing unnecessary function calls, and updating signal handling throughout the project. The contributions extended to various parts of the codebase, demonstrating a broad understanding of the system's internal workings and a focus on maintainability. Additionally, the user implemented a feature for switching to the last workspace in the vswitch plugin.
waylandcompositormodularextensiblewayland-compositor
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