Volker Börchers
Open Source Developer at Freeplane
Cologne Bonn Region Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolVolker Börchers is an experienced open source developer and principal consultant with 13+ years in software engineering and a career that traces back to software development and architecture roles since 2000. Based in the Cologne–Bonn region, he contributes to the well-known Freeplane mind-mapping project as a back-end developer, focusing on refactoring, robustness improvements and scripting API enhancements that improve link and connector handling. He brings hands-on expertise from senior consulting and architecture positions, bridging practical project delivery with long-term maintainability. Trained as a physicist (Dr. rer. nat., magna cum laude), he applies a research-minded rigor to software design and problem solving. Colleagues rely on him for thoughtful code-level improvements that quietly reduce defects and simplify complex features.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Dr. rer. nat., Physik, Magna cum laude, Dr. rer. nat., Physik, Magna cum laude at Universität Bremen
English
Github Skills (9)
javas10
refactoring10
java10
refactor10
apidoc9
groovy9
api9
swing7
javaswing7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
freeplane/freeplane
Oct 2012 - Dec 2019
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:281 commits, 2 PRs, 64 pushes in 7 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Volker primarily focused on code refactoring and feature enhancements within the Freeplane mind mapping application. Their contributions included renaming classes and methods, fixing potential null pointer exceptions, and adding new properties to the scripting API. A significant part of their work involved changes related to the handling and display of links and connectors within the mind map, demonstrating a focus on core functionality.
latexmindmarkdownmindmap-editorcommunicate
vboerchers/wikdshell
Apr 2016 - Jan 2019
Groovy console for interacting with a running Freeplane instance
Contributions:1 release, 2 PRs, 6 pushes in 2 years 9 months
groovyconsole
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