Valentin Boettcher
PHD Candidate
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolValentin Boettcher is a PhD candidate at McGill University with 12 years of software engineering experience blending research-grade rigor and full-stack product development. Based in Montreal, he contributes to open source—most notably improving front-end and back-end flows in the Vulcan.js toolkit for React, GraphQL and Meteor—bringing practical UX fixes, internationalization and email/password workflow reliability. Trained in physics (BSc/MSc, Technische Universität Dresden), he applies strong analytical skills to complex engineering problems and systems design. Valentin's work spans UI components, routing and string management as well as backend integrations, showing comfort across the stack. He maintains personal projects and KDE-related work hosted on invent.kde.org, hinting at a penchant for collaborative, community-driven software. Colleagues describe him as a developer who pairs deep technical curiosity with pragmatic, user-focused improvements.
11 years of coding experience
Bachelor's degree, Physics, Bachelor's degree, Physics at Technische Universität Dresden
Github Skills (10)
graphql10
javascript10
wordpress-graphql10
wpgraphql10
react10
ui-components10
meteor9
internationalization9
react-router8
handlebars8
Programming languages (26)
Github contributions (5)
VulcanJS/Vulcan
Feb 2019 - Mar 2019
🌋 A toolkit to quickly build apps with React, GraphQL & Meteor
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 23 PRs, 24 comments in 11 days
Contributions summary:Valentin contributed to the front-end and back-end aspects of the Vulcan.js project. Their work includes implementing UI components, fixing email verification and password reset flows, and adding internationalization features. They also addressed bugs related to the use of React Router and improved the overall user interface and string management within the application. Furthermore, they enhanced the email functionality and improved the label handling.
reactmeteorreact-graphqlserver-renderingtoolkit
vale981/LAAG1
Oct 2017 - Feb 2020
Contributions:59 releases, 81 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 4 months
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