Björn Heiß
Software Engineer at codecentric
Germany
Summary
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RockstarBjörn Heiß is a software engineer and IT consultant based in Germany with eight years of hands-on experience building and testing JavaScript, Kotlin and Lua-based systems. At codecentric he blends development with quality engineering, specializing in test automation and cross-platform reliability. His open-source work includes improving testing infrastructure and Windows compatibility for the widely used spaCy NLP library, reflecting a knack for making complex projects more robust. A self-described WoW nerd, he brings the same attention to systems and edge cases from hobby projects into professional tooling. Colleagues rely on him to close tricky bugs and harden test suites so features remain reliable across environments.
8 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (20)
pytest10
python10
testing10
test-automation10
redux-thunk9
natural-language-processing9
react9
nlp9
async-await6
google-sheets6
nodejs6
setstate6
webstorm6
material-ui6
typescript6
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
explosion/spaCy
Apr 2019 - Aug 2019
💫 Industrial-strength Natural Language Processing (NLP) in Python
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:12 commits, 10 PRs, 118 comments in 4 months
Contributions summary:Björn primarily contributed to improving the testing infrastructure and test coverage within the spaCy repository. Their work included fixing test failures, creating and modifying test cases to address specific issues, and ensuring cross-platform compatibility, particularly on Windows. They added tests for new functionalities, such as the CLI pretrain tool, and addressed edge cases within existing tests. Additionally, they adjusted existing tests to ensure they succeeded under different OS conditions.
fairness-mlpythondata-preprocessinglanguage-processingtokenization
BreakBB/book
Apr 2018 - Jul 2018
Contributions:46 pushes in 2 months
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