Carsten Gehling

Carsten Gehling is an independent developer who focuses on friction-free tooling for software teams that rely on Atlassian Jira. His single public offering, Jira StopWatch, is a lightweight Windows desktop client that lives in the system tray and lets developers, testers, and project managers start, pause, and stop timers for any Jira issue without opening a browser. The utility reads the ticket hierarchy directly from the configured Jira instance, displays the current issue summary, and posts accumulated time back to the work-log through the REST API, eliminating the manual copy-and-paste routine that often derails accurate reporting. Typical use cases include agile teams running daily stand-ups, consultants who must invoice down to the minute, and support engineers tracking time against service-desk requests; the stopwatch approach keeps context switching low while ensuring that every billable or traceable second is captured. Because the executable runs portably and stores OAuth credentials locally, it is equally suited for locked-down corporate laptops and personal workstations. The publisher’s software is available for free on get.nero.com, where downloads are delivered through trusted Windows package sources such as winget, always installing the latest version and supporting batch installation alongside other applications.