Amos Wenger
Founder at bearcove
Lyon, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
Summary
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RockstarAmos Wenger is a founder and full‑stack software engineer with 17 years of experience who transitioned from startup engineering to full‑time Rust educator, writer, and video creator after securing sustainable funding from GitHub Sponsors and Patreon. Based in Lyon, he combines deep systems and backend expertise—demonstrated by contributions to rust-analyzer and Rust tooling—with frontend work in React/TypeScript on projects like itch.io. He optimizes developer workflows and CI performance (notably speeding Windows builds for astral-sh/uv) and builds pragmatic backend features such as HTTP load testing enhancements. Amos regularly speaks at conferences, runs challenging quizzes for audiences, and still takes on selective contract work, blending community education with hands‑on engineering. An avowed curious teacher and “software mercenary,” he brings a maker’s mentality to open source and product work alike.
16 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (40)
github-ci10
javascript10
develop10
electron10
windows10
loadtest10
ide10
http10
typescript10
ui-design10
windows-xp10
cicd10
uid10
front-end-development10
performance-optimization10
Programming languages (25)
Github contributions (5)
itchio/itch
Sep 2015 - Aug 2020
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:109 releases, 5620 commits, 68 PRs in 5 years
Contributions summary:Amos has primarily contributed to the front-end and potentially the back-end functionality of the itch.io application. The contributions focus on implementing new features and refactoring existing components to improve the user experience. The user is also responsible for adding new user interface features like in-built language support and handling the various UI and data elements. The user is highly involved in UI and front-end development work with React and Typescript.
reactitch-iogameelectrongames
rust-lang/rust-analyzer
Nov 2019 - Feb 2023
A Rust compiler front-end for IDEs
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:16 reviews, 12 PRs, 104 comments in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Amos primarily contributed to the `rust-analyzer` project by implementing and refining code generation features within the IDE assistance system. They developed functionality to automatically generate enum variants based on context, enhancing the IDE's ability to provide helpful code suggestions. Furthermore, the user made improvements to existing code and applied formatting changes to maintain code quality and address linting issues. These commits demonstrate expertise in Rust and the implementation of IDE features.
rustlsp-servercompileridefront-end
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