Ansel Sermersheim
Co-Founder at CopperSpice Project
Half Moon Bay, California, United States
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Top SchoolAnsel Sermersheim is a seasoned software engineer and entrepreneur with 12 years of professional experience and a long-running role as Co-Founder of the CopperSpice C++ libraries project. Based in Half Moon Bay, he blends systems-level C++ expertise—contributing to core concurrent and string-processing components and updating dependencies like SQLite and zlib—with practical product experience from senior engineering and architecture roles at companies including RealtyShares and BitGravity. He has a track record of shipping robust backend systems and integrating platform plugins (e.g., SQL driver loading) that keep open-source stacks production-ready. Trained in computer science at Cal Poly, Ansel’s background spans early internet startups to government research internships, giving him a pragmatic, infrastructure-first approach to software design.
12 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Transfer, Computer Science, Transfer, Computer Science at De Anza CollegeCalifornia Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
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Github Skills (10)
c-language10
lib10
cprogramming-language10
data-structure9
build-system9
cmake9
data-structures9
api-design7
sql6
generic-programming6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
copperspice/copperspice
May 2014 - Dec 2022
Set of cross platform C++ libraries (Core, Gui, Network, Multimedia, SQL, Vulkan, etc)
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:418 commits, 55 PRs, 498 pushes in 8 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Ansel's commits focus on cleaning up and updating the CopperSpice C++ libraries. This involved modifications to core libraries, specifically within the concurrent and string processing components. Furthermore, the user's work includes updating third-party dependencies, such as SQLite and Zlib. Finally, a file was added to add a specific call to the drivers() to load the sql plugin and the code base.
cppwindowslinuxc-plus-plusgui
copperspice/cs_libguarded
Apr 2016 - Jul 2022
Header-only library for multithreaded programming
Contributions:62 commits, 11 PRs, 53 pushes in 6 years 3 months
multithreadingcppheaderconstexprheader-only
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