Ben Fritsch
Principal Software Engineer at Heroku
Leipzig, Saxony, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolBen Fritsch is a Principal Software Engineer with 16 years of experience building resilient platform and data systems, currently shaping risk and infrastructure engineering at Heroku. He brings deep Ruby and backend expertise—evidenced by contributions to notable projects like reek and legacy GitHub services integrations—combined with a pragmatic focus on test quality and reliable API/event handling. Ben has progressed from hands-on performance and build engineering to leading data and risk teams, pairing technical stewardship with product-minded architecture work. Based in Leipzig and a globe-trotter by inclination, he blends pragmatic engineering with curiosity—often described as someone who “breaks and fixes the Internet.”
16 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Technische Universität Dresden
English, German
Github Skills (15)
ruby10
apim10
rspec10
server-configuration10
configurations10
static-analysis10
api10
system-configuration10
testing10
eslint9
lint9
linter9
linting9
github-ci4
githubaction-workflow4
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
troessner/reek
Apr 2015 - May 2015
Code smell detector for Ruby
Role in this project:
Backend Developer / QA Engineer
Backend Developer / QA EngineerContributions:5 commits, 7 PRs, 33 comments in 13 days
Contributions summary:Ben primarily focused on enhancing the `reek` project's testing capabilities and refining its core logic for detecting code smells in Ruby code. They refactored existing tests and created new test cases to cover specific scenarios related to attribute detection. Furthermore, they modified the core logic within `reek` to improve its identification of certain code smells, like those related to attributes. This work improved the accuracy and reliability of the code smell detection.
linterssmell-warningsrubydetectorparsing
github/github-services
Apr 2014 - Apr 2014
Legacy GitHub Services Integration
Role in this project:Backend Engineer
Backend EngineerContributions:6 commits in 3 days
Contributions summary:Ben primarily contributed to the Codeship integration within the repository. Their work involved modifying the service configuration, updating the logo URL, and adding a pull request event. These changes indicate a focus on configuring and updating a service that likely interacts with external APIs and event handling. The user also fixed tests related to the service integration, ensuring the correct payload formatting is sent.
github-servicesintegration-services
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