Benjamin Schwedler
Senior Software Engineer at Posit PBC
St. Louis, Missouri, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBenjamin Schwedler is a Senior Software Engineer with nine years of professional experience, currently building backend systems at Posit in St. Louis. He brings a strong background in scalable engineering from senior roles at Lumen and NOAA, blending operational rigor with research-driven problem solving from his graduate work in atmospheric science. Benjamin contributes to prominent open-source projects such as RStudio, where he improved connection management and added driver support and unit tests to enhance IDE reliability and user experience. Comfortable working across production services and engineering testbeds, he has a track record of simplifying complex integrations and shipping robust, well-tested features. His cross-disciplinary roots in meteorology and atmospheric science give him a pragmatic, data-informed approach to system design and troubleshooting.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
B. S., Meteorology, B. S., Meteorology at Iowa State UniversityM. S., Atmospheric Science, M. S., Atmospheric Science at Purdue University
Github Skills (6)
odbc10
rstudio10
r10
database9
databases9
testing7
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
rstudio/rstudio
Feb 2022 - Aug 2022
RStudio is an integrated development environment (IDE) for R
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 2 commits, 12 PRs in 5 months
Contributions summary:Benjamin primarily focused on modifying and improving the connection management features within the RStudio IDE. Their contributions include updating the connection pane suffix, allowing duplicate entries from pro drivers, modifying the method of finding connection snippets by walking the directory, setting the path of desktop driver installs, and adding the `dsn=` keyword to connection snippets. These changes aimed to improve the user experience by simplifying connection setup, enabling the Databricks driver, and by updating branding. Unit tests were also added to the connection list filter.
iderrstudio
bschwedler/dotfiles
Mar 2018 - Feb 2026
Contributions:48 pushes, 5 branches in 8 years
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