Benjamin Schwerdtner
Senior Clojure Developer at UNITED SIGNALS
Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolBenjamin Schwerdtner is a Senior Clojure Developer with eight years of experience building robust backend systems and developer tooling, currently working at UNITED SIGNALS in Frankfurt. Deeply invested in functional programming, Lisp, Emacs and Unix, he has a track record of improving developer experience—most notably contributing to CIDER by enhancing ClojureScript REPL support and performance across multiple runtimes. His background in biology gives him a scientific curiosity and systems-thinking approach that inform pragmatic, well-tested engineering decisions. Benjamin is an active FOSS contributor and volunteer, driven by a desire to move the world forward through open software and thoughtful tooling. Based in Hanover, Germany, he combines hands-on implementation skills with a knack for debugging subtle runtime and interoperability issues.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Biology General, Bachelor's degree Biology General at University of Hohenheim
Github Skills (8)
clojure10
clojure-cli10
clojurescript10
emacs-lisp10
cider10
nrepl9
emacs9
babashka5
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
clojure-emacs/cider
Dec 2022 - Dec 2022
The Clojure Interactive Development Environment that Rocks for Emacs
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:16 reviews, 5 commits, 9 PRs in 12 days
Contributions summary:Benjamin primarily focused on enhancing CIDER, an Emacs-based Clojure development environment, by improving its ClojureScript (cljs) support. Their contributions included fixing bugs related to cljs repl type detection and handling. The user added capabilities to connect nbb, scittle, and joyride repls and worked on ensuring the correct initialization of cljs repls. The user also addressed performance issues related to JVM Clojure repls, improving the overall user experience.
rockscideremacsclojurescriptdevelopment-environment
benjamin-asdf/openai-api.el
Dec 2022 - Mar 2023
Contributions:64 commits, 55 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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