Arif Er
PhD Candidate
Summary
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RockstarArif Er is a PhD candidate and software engineer with six years of hands-on experience contributing across the full stack. He is an active open-source contributor to the well-known Spacemacs project, where his work on Emacs configuration, keybindings and layer fixes demonstrates deep familiarity with editor tooling and developer workflows. Based in Turkey, he combines academic rigor with practical engineering—refactoring components like helm-ls-git and improving Transmission and Org integrations. Known for a playful self-description as "a PhD candidate with lots of distractions," he brings curiosity and a habit of incremental improvements that make developer tooling more usable and maintainable.
6 years of coding experience
Github Skills (10)
configuration-management10
configurations10
emacs10
keybindings10
configuration-file10
spacemacs10
helm9
vim9
co8
python4
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
syl20bnr/spacemacs
May 2021 - Jun 2022
A community-driven Emacs distribution - The best editor is neither Emacs nor Vim, it's Emacs *and* Vim!
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:57 reviews, 8 commits, 11 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Arif primarily contributed to the Emacs configuration, adding new keybindings, organizing code, and updating copyright headers across multiple files. They focused on enhancements and fixes related to Transmission and Org layers, indicating a deep understanding of the Spacemacs configuration structure. The user also refactored and updated helm-ls-git.
emacsvimcommunity-drivenconfigurationspacemacs
nus-strings/webpage
Feb 2024 - Jun 2026
The public webpage for the NUS String Theory Group hosted at https://phyweb.physics.nus.edu.sg/~strings/
Contributions:1 review, 7 PRs, 26 pushes in 2 years 4 months
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