Lukas Eipert
Product Software Engineer at Linear
Leipzig, Saxony, Germany
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Top SchoolLukas Eipert is a product-focused software engineer with 12 years of experience building and improving frontend systems at scale, most recently joining Linear after a multi-role tenure at GitLab where he progressed from senior engineer to staff frontend engineer and interim manager. He excels in refactoring complex UI code and cross-version consistency—evidenced by contributions to the high-profile GitLab CE repository—and also brings backend library experience from work on the widely used superagent HTTP client. Based in Leipzig, he blends hands-on component and architecture work with people leadership and product thinking, having led Secure/Ecosystem engineering efforts and short-term management stints. Practical, detail-oriented, and comfortable navigating both legacy code and modern frontend stacks, he often focuses on improving maintainability and developer experience behind the scenes.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Leipzig University
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Github Skills (14)
gitlab10
nodejs10
javascript10
lib10
vue10
vue-jsx10
api-design9
front-end-development9
rails9
ruby-rails9
http8
ruby-on-rails8
css7
html7
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
gitlabhq/gitlabhq
Mar 2018 - Sep 2019
GitLab CE Mirror | Please open new issues in our issue tracker on GitLab.com
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:372 commits in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Lukas primarily focused on improving the GitLab CE frontend by backporting and updating UI components related to jobs and merge requests. Their work included refactoring Vue components and ensuring consistency across different GitLab versions. The user also addressed issues in user browsing and the operations navigation menu. Furthermore, they upgraded eslint to address a camelcase bug, fixed various lints, and ensured correct CSS class rendering for reports.
gitlab-cerubygitlabrails
forwardemail/superagent
Jan 2016 - Dec 2016
Ajax for Node.js and browsers (JS HTTP client). Maintained for @forwardemail, @ladjs, @spamscanner, @breejs, @cabinjs, and @lassjs.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 commits, 2 PRs, 3 comments in 10 months
Contributions summary:Lukas primarily focused on refactoring and improving the core functionality of the `superagent` library. Their contributions involved moving methods and creating mixins, enhancing code structure and reusability. Key changes include the creation of `ResponseBase` to consolidate shared response properties and methods. They also refactored the handling of headers, ensuring proper parsing and property setting across different environments (Node.js and browsers).
ajaxhttp-clientjsnodejs
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