Anton Lodder
Staff Engineer at GE Vernova
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolAnton Lodder is a Staff Engineer with 13 years of experience combining electrical engineering and software design to advance power systems modelling, distribution optimization, and renewable integration. Based in Old Toronto, he blends hands-on Python and GAMS development with subject-matter expertise in load flow analysis, contingency evaluation, timeseries powerflow and unbalanced AC models to help operators extract value from distributed energy resources. At GE Vernova he drives system-level solutions that merge power systems modelling and operations research, and previously built a modern platform for hosting-capacity, OPF and locational pricing at Opus One. He contributes to open-source testing infrastructure—improving pytest’s coverage around tricky assertion and complex-number edge cases—bringing a quality-first approach to scientific software. Anton’s background in energy systems research and practical project delivery (including supervising technical evaluations of hundreds of solar leads and designing microgrids) gives him a rare combination of academic rigour and production-grade engineering.
13 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Electrical and Biomedical Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.Eng.), Electrical and Biomedical Engineering at McMaster UniversityMaster's Degree, Energy Systems, Master's Degree, Energy Systems at University of Toronto
French
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Github Skills (17)
oop10
unit-testing10
pytest10
python10
testing10
inheritance10
unit-test10
test-automation10
pyqt6
android6
gimp6
sqlite6
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pyside6
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
pytest-dev/pytest
Jan 2019 - Oct 2019
The pytest framework makes it easy to write small tests, yet scales to support complex functional testing
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:1 PR, 6 comments, 2 issues in 9 months
Contributions summary:Anton focused on improving the testing capabilities of the pytest framework. They addressed issues related to assertion rewriting, ensuring that errors are handled correctly when `__getattr__` fails. Their work involved writing tests to cover these edge cases and integrating complex number support into existing test suites. The contributions included modifying existing tests and adding new ones to enhance overall framework testing coverage.
scalespythonfunctional-testingtestingpytest-framework
AnjoMan/matpower-cpf-tool
Feb 2013 - Nov 2014
Contributions:53 commits, 1 comment in 1 year 9 months
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