Connor Ferster
President & Lead Instructor at StructuralPython
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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RockstarConnor Ferster is a Vancouver-based structural engineer and software instructor with eight years of hands-on experience blending civil engineering practice and Python development. As President & Lead Instructor at StructuralPython, he teaches engineers to build practical Python tools for buildings and bridges, turning classroom projects into immediately useful design workflows. He holds a Civil Engineering Technology diploma from SAIT and is enrolled in UBC’s Civil Engineering Bridge Program with a focus on advancing structural wood design through innovative joinery and fabrication methods. Connor contributes to open-source tooling—most notably improving the handcalcs Python library that converts calculations to rendered LaTeX—bringing parsing and rendering improvements from a practitioner’s perspective. Comfortable across design, code, and education, he bridges the gap between structural theory and automated computation to accelerate everyday engineering tasks.
8 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
301reputation
7kreached
12answers
6questions
Github Skills (13)
latex10
lib10
parsing10
python10
parse10
software-design9
zodb6
pandas6
syntax6
dictionary6
export-to-csv6
dataframe6
data-science6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
connorferster/handcalcs
Feb 2020 - Dec 2022
Python library for converting Python calculations into rendered latex.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 releases, 11 reviews, 358 commits in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Connor primarily contributed to the development of the Python library `handcalcs`, which converts Python calculations into rendered LaTeX code. They implemented and refactored the `Calc` class and other associated functions. They focused on parsing python code, converting it into Latex, and enabling different Latex rendering features.
latexpython
StructuralPython/beamz9000
Jan 2022 - Oct 2022
A handy wrapper around common plotting libraries for rendering beams and beam force and moment diagrams.
Contributions:11 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
rendering
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