Ben Felder
Student at Adeptus Mechanicus
Germany, United States
Summary
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RockstarBen Felder is a versatile software engineer and AI M.Sc. student with nine years of hands-on experience building backend and full-stack tooling. Based in Germany, he blends biochemistry-minded rigor with a Python-first engineering approach, focusing on MLOps and developer productivity. His open-source work includes meaningful contributions to widely used projects like copier (improving template flexibility) and SublimeLinter (refactoring scheme generation and highlighting), demonstrating both systems thinking and attention to user-facing details. Comfortable across CLI tools, code linting frameworks, and deployment workflows, he ships pragmatic, well-tested features that improve developer experience. By day he architecturally grooves on MLOps, and by night he pursues AI research and builds “joyful tools,” reflecting a rare mix of discipline and playful creativity.
10 years of coding experience
Github Skills (10)
rendering10
sublime-text10
linter10
templating10
jinja210
render10
python10
xml9
json9
scaffolding9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
copier-org/copier
Mar 2018 - Mar 2020
Library and command-line utility for rendering projects templates.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 releases, 254 commits, 80 PRs in 2 years
Contributions summary:Ben primarily contributed to the `copier` project by implementing and extending features related to template processing and project generation. They added functionality for specifying and handling extra paths for templates, enabling users to import templates from multiple directories. They also refactored the code, particularly adjusting the order of parameters in the `get_jinja_renderer` function and refactoring test code to ensure that the extra paths feature was working as expected. These changes enhance the flexibility of the project template processing.
command-line-utilityrenderingpythonscaffoldingcookiecutter
SublimeLinter/SublimeLinter
Nov 2017 - Mar 2018
The code linting framework for Sublime Text
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:153 commits, 38 PRs, 90 pushes in 4 months
Contributions summary:Ben's commits primarily focused on enhancing the SublimeLinter framework by adding support for new color scheme formats and custom highlighting features. They refactored settings structures, overhauled scheme generation and highlighting classes, and fixed bugs related to color scheme generation. These changes involved modifications to both the core SublimeLinter code and the styling mechanisms, demonstrating a good understanding of the project's architecture and how to integrate with its features.
lintingsublime-textsublimelinterpythonlinter
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