Torsten Rahn
Team Leader Software Architecture System Architect at Mettler Toledo (Albstadt) GmbH
Nuremberg, Bavaria, Germany
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Top SchoolTorsten Rahn is a principal software architect and team leader based in Nuremberg with over two decades of experience in embedded systems and a 14-year focused career in software architecture. He leads software architecture at Mettler Toledo, bringing deep Qt expertise honed as a longtime KDE core contributor and founder/main author of the Marble Virtual Globe project. Torsten combines hands-on C++/Qt engineering with system-level design for HMI and embedded products, and has advised clients across migration, QA automation, and cross-platform GUI projects. He also teaches software development for HMI systems and holds an MBA, enabling him to align technical direction with business goals. Notably, his open-source work helped shape KDE’s visual identity and long-lived tooling used by desktop and embedded ecosystems. Colleagues value him for marrying pragmatic architecture with sustained community-driven innovation.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration - MBA, Business Management, Master of Business Administration - MBA, Business Management at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-NürnbergDiplom Physicist, Physics, Diplom Physicist, Physics at Kiel University
English, French, German, Latin, finnisch, Romanian
Github Skills (15)
marble10
pan10
leaflet9
wikipedia9
atlas9
mouse9
earth9
rar5
extractor5
tar5
delta4
linux3
archiver3
tarball3
archiving3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (4)
KDE/marble
Apr 2016 - Jul 2021
Marble is a Virtual Globe and World Atlas that you can use to learn more about Earth: You can pan and zoom around and you can look up places and roads. A mouse click on a place label will provide the respective Wikipedia article.
Contributions:9 commits in 5 years 4 months
leafletglobelookplacezoom-and-pan
shentok/marble
Mar 2016 - Sep 2019
Contributions:10 commits in 3 years 6 months
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