Tobias Kwant
Software-Entwickler at Smiths Detection
Greater Kassel Area Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolTobias Kwant is a software developer with eight years of experience building web applications and embedded software, currently working at Smiths Detection in the Greater Kassel area. He blends front-end React development and Python/Flask web services with a strong hardware-near background from roles and thesis work in embedded systems and sensor synchronization. Tobias has practical experience in computer vision pipelines for automated defect detection and in generating realistic synthetic image data from CAD models for ML training. An active open-source contributor, he improved usability and interaction in the popular git-history front-end by adding smooth commit-bar sliding and mouse-wheel scrolling while tidying code with Prettier. His career path—from electronics apprenticeship to an MEng in Embedded Systems—gives him a pragmatic, end-to-end perspective on product development from hardware to user-facing UI. Colleagues describe him as a detail-oriented engineer who prefers improving user interactions and developer ergonomics through thoughtful, incremental enhancements.
8 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Elektrotechnik und Informationstechnik, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Elektrotechnik und Informationstechnik at Hochschule FuldaTechniker Fachrichtung Automatisierung und Prozessleittechnik, Techniker Fachrichtung Automatisierung und Prozessleittechnik at Beruflichen Schulen Bad Hersfeld
Github Skills (7)
javascript10
react10
animation9
history7
git7
cli5
vscode5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
pomber/git-history
Feb 2019 - Feb 2019
Quickly browse the history of a file from any git repository
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 3 PRs, 4 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Tobias primarily focused on enhancing the user interface of the `git-history` application. Their contributions include implementing interactive features such as a sliding effect for the commit bar and scrolling with the mouse wheel. They also addressed bug fixes related to the mouse wheel functionality and refactored code using Prettier for code formatting consistency. These enhancements improve user interaction and the overall browsing experience within the git repository history.
git-repositoryanimationvscodevscode-extensionblame
tkwant/react-directed-graph
Jan 2019 - Dec 2020
Contributions:1 release, 40 commits, 18 PRs in 1 year 10 months
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