Benjamin Schwendinger
Wissenschaftler at Fraunhofer Austria
Vienna, Austria
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Top SchoolBenjamin Schwendinger is a Vienna-based scientist and software engineer with six years of experience bridging academic research and applied R-based data tooling. He holds advanced degrees in computer science and technical mathematics from TU Wien and completed exchange semesters at KU Leuven and Stockholm, underpinning a strong quantitative and international background. His work history spans Fraunhofer Austria and TU Wien, where he progressed from tutoring and research assistant roles to a current scientist position. An active contributor to the widely used R data.table project, he has implemented performance-sensitive features like enhanced fread support and utilities such as gshift and yearquarter, reflecting deep expertise in data manipulation and edge-case robustness. Colleagues would describe him as someone who combines rigorous academic training with pragmatic open-source engineering to deliver reliable, production-ready data infrastructure.
6 years of coding experience
Vienna University of TechnologyAustauschsemester, Computer Science, Austauschsemester, Computer Science at KU LeuvenAustauschsemester, Mathematics, Austauschsemester, Mathematics at Stockholms universitet
German, English, Dutch
Github Skills (12)
data-manipulation10
r-programming10
performance-optimization10
fileio9
file-access9
data-structure9
file-processing9
data-structures9
file-handling9
implement7
algorithm7
algorithms7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
Rdatatable/data.table
Jan 2021 - Jan 2023
R's data.table package extends data.frame:
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:327 reviews, 171 commits, 159 PRs in 2 years
Contributions summary:Benjamin primarily contributed to the `data.table` package by implementing new features and fixing bugs related to data manipulation and performance. Their work includes adding support for `fread` with URL, `.zip` and `.tar` files, and improved handling of edge cases. Furthermore, they introduced new functionalities such as `gshift` and `yearquarter` and fixed several bugs in existing functionalities.
r-packageframecranrrstats
ben-schwen/aoc_2020
Dec 2020 - Dec 2021
Contributions:33 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
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