Christian Heimlich
Managing Director at H&T Presspart
Selzach, Solothurn, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolChristian Heimlich is a Managing Director and seasoned engineering leader with nine years of experience scaling advanced operations and R&D in medical and manufacturing sectors, most recently leading H&T Presspart Nidau after a long tenure at Stryker. Trained in microengineering and robotics at EPFL with a Harvard master’s thesis on insect-scale autonomous robots, he blends hands-on hardware and embedded software skills (C/C++, Assembly, Matlab, LabView) with product and operations leadership. He contributes to prominent open-source projects like Qt, where his bug fixes and test-driven improvements to core widgets demonstrate attention to quality and long-term maintenance. Based in Selzach, Switzerland, he pairs mechanical CAD and electromagnetic simulation expertise (SolidWorks, ProE, Maxwell Flux) with a pragmatic focus on reliable, manufacturable solutions. A curious polymath who once tutored across sciences and languages, he brings interdisciplinary thinking and a bias for technical clarity to complex engineering challenges.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Microengineering, Bachelor, Microengineering at High School MaturityMaster of Science in Microengineering, Robotics and Autonomous Systems, Master of Science in Microengineering, Robotics and Autonomous Systems at Ecole polytechnique fédérale de LausanneSchool, Engineering and Applied Sciences, School, Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard UniversityMaturity degree, Literature, focused on Latin studies, Maturity degree, Literature, focused on Latin studies at Kantonsschule Olten
English, French, German, Italian
Github Skills (6)
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
qt10
testing10
widgets9
cmake7
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
qt/qtbase
Aug 2020 - Sep 2022
Qt Base (Core, Gui, Widgets, Network, ...)
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:14 commits in 2 years
Contributions summary:Christian primarily contributed to the Qt base project, focusing on bug fixes and improvements to existing widgets. Their work included addressing a reentrancy issue in `QProgressDialog`, resolving a double emission bug in `QLineEdit`, and refactoring code for better organization and consistency within the `QProgressDialogPrivate` class. Furthermore, they made adjustments to documentation and added a new test case to ensure the correct functionality of the line edit's `editingFinished` signal.
qtc-plus-plusqt5
oblivioncth/dont-starve-tools
Aug 2021 - Aug 2023
🔨 Mod tools for Don't Starve (And other Klei Entertainment games)
Contributions:3 releases, 9 pushes, 3 tags in 2 years
modkleientertainmentgames
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