Wilhelm Kirschbaum
Chief Technology Officer at FloatPays
Western Cape, South Africa
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolWilhelm Kirschbaum is a pragmatic technology leader and CTO with 12 years of hands-on software engineering experience, currently steering technical strategy at FloatPays from the Western Cape. He brings a strong backend orientation rooted in Elixir and Ruby on Rails, and a formal grounding in computer science and mathematics from Stellenbosch University. Wilhelm pairs executive responsibility with active open-source craftsmanship—most notably contributing Elixir language-server support and test lenses to the widely used Emacs lsp-mode project—demonstrating deep expertise in language tooling and developer experience. His career spans product-focused startups and fintechs where he’s delivered reliable systems and operational improvements, and he retains a hacker’s curiosity (Emacs enthusiast) that keeps him close to the code.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Rondebosh Boys' HighBsc, Computer Science, Mathematics, Bsc, Computer Science, Mathematics at Stellenbosch University/Universiteit Stellenbosch
Afrikaans, English
Stackoverflow
41reputation
3kreached
0answers
1question
Github Skills (9)
language-server10
tree-sitter10
language-server-protocol10
emacs10
elixir10
emacs-lisp10
testing9
test-automation8
build-automation8
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
emacs-lsp/lsp-mode
Jun 2020 - Dec 2022
Emacs client/library for the Language Server Protocol
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 reviews, 3 commits, 10 PRs in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Wilhelm significantly contributed to integrating and maintaining Elixir language server (ElixirLS) support within the Emacs LSP mode. Their work involved adding features like test lenses for Elixir tests, supporting Elixir, Heex, and Credo language servers. The user updated ElixirLS versions, fixed issues related to the credo-language-server command, and added missing configurations for the Elixir language server, demonstrating a deep understanding of Elixir and LSP integration. Furthermore, they added auto-build options and updated Elixir related language servers.
pythoneslintlanguage-server-clientclient-libraryjavascript
wkirschbaum/SimpleHTTPServer
Apr 2016 - Aug 2018
Contributions:1 release, 6 pushes, 1 tag in 2 years 4 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.