Urs Liska
IT-Projektkoordinator
Greater Freiburg Area Germany
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Top SchoolUrs Liska is an IT project coordinator and digital humanist with 14 years of experience at the intersection of music, scholarship, and software development. Based in the Freiburg area, he combines practical musicianship (trained pianist and musicologist) with a track record of developing digital music edition tools and extending e-learning platforms for artistic curricula. He contributes to notable open-source projects such as the Frescobaldi LilyPond editor, delivering both UI/UX improvements and backend Python refactors that tightened validation and build reliability. As a community-oriented, free-software advocate he brings collaborative process and sustainability to technical projects in higher education and freelance musicology. He is comfortable translating scholarly requirements into robust, usable software—a skill reinforced by long-standing work on digital editions and platform enhancements. An often-overlooked strength is his dual fluency in artistic practice and engineering, which helps him bridge user needs and technical constraints effectively.
13 years of coding experience
Künstlerischer Abschluss, Liedgestaltung, Künstlerischer Abschluss, Liedgestaltung at Konservatorium ZürichMusikwissenschaft, Musikwissenschaft at Universität der Künste BerlinDiplom 1997, Klavier, Musiktheorie, Diplom 1997, Klavier, Musiktheorie at Musikhochschule Freiburg
English
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Github Skills (16)
user-interface10
python10
refactor9
user-experience9
front-end-development9
refactoring9
ux-design9
develop8
file-handling8
case-sensitive6
git6
pyqt6
nodejs6
environment-variables6
git-blame6
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
frescobaldi/frescobaldi
Apr 2013 - Dec 2020
Frescobaldi LilyPond Editor
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:967 commits, 97 PRs, 389 pushes in 7 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Urs primarily worked on enhancing the Frescobaldi LilyPond editor, focusing on both front-end and back-end changes. Their contributions include UI/UX modifications, such as renaming menu items and adding new features, while also addressing back-end issues through code refactoring and the addition of validation checks. The user demonstrated skills in Python, specifically in relation to the codebase of the LilyPond editor, and the adjustments required to support its features. The user also made contributions related to the build environment, by ensuring that external libraries are properly included.
editorlilypond
uliska/openlilylib-tutorials
Mar 2013 - Jun 2014
Contributions:125 commits in 1 year 3 months
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