Torsten Bögershausen
SW Developer at .
Greater Malmö Metropolitan Area Sweden
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolTorsten Bögershausen is a pragmatic software developer with 15+ years of hands-on experience building and hardening backend systems from Malmö, Sweden. His career spans embedded and telecom work at Dresser Wayne, Ericsson and Enea to long-term independent SW development, demonstrating a steady focus on making complex systems simply work. An active contributor to the Git project, he has implemented nuanced fixes and tests around line-ending normalization, UTF-16 and Unicode filename handling, and platform-specific path/URL parsing—areas that quietly improve cross-platform developer workflows. Torsten combines deep low-level troubleshooting skills with automation engineering, favoring practical, test-backed fixes over flashy rewrites. He thrives on solving interoperability and edge-case bugs that often go unnoticed until they break real workflows.
15 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Technische Universität Braunschweig
Github Skills (16)
c1710
git10
automation10
automations10
c1110
testing10
scripting9
fileio9
file-operations9
filesystem9
script9
sh9
shell8
cygwin8
unicode8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
git/git
Dec 2010 - Jan 2023
Git Source Code Mirror - This is a publish-only repository but pull requests can be turned into patches to the mailing list via GitGitGadget (https://gitgitgadget.github.io/). Please follow Documentation/SubmittingPatches procedure for any of your improvements.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Automation EngineerContributions:116 commits in 12 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Torsten primarily contributed to the Git source code, focusing on enhancements and bug fixes related to line ending handling and file normalization within the repository. They implemented and tested changes related to various configurations, specifically focusing on the interaction between core.autocrlf, core.eol, and .gitattributes settings. The user also added tests related to UTF-16 and the behavior of the codebase on MacOS systems when working with unicode filenames, and provided fixes and improvements for various areas like parsing URLs and pathspecs within the codebase.
hacklanggit-clientmercurialfollowlibgit2
EuropeanSpallationSource/MCAG_Base_Project
Jun 2015 - May 2018
Contributions:178 commits, 45 pushes, 15 branches in 2 years 11 months
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