Drew Ditthardt
Software Engineer at EasyPost
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
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Top SchoolDrew Ditthardt is a pragmatic software engineer with 14 years of experience building reliable backend systems and developer tooling from Atlanta. He currently maintains address verification infrastructure at EasyPost and runs Olivine Labs, where he authors open-source projects including the Lua test framework Busted and evented web tooling. Drew has a strong track record in production reliability and DevOps—improving deployments and timeout handling at Reddit and hardening HAProxy, Memcached, and install idempotency. His contributions to the Python-based Qtile window manager show comfort across stacks, from low-level rendering fixes to async lifecycle refactors. Colleagues describe him as a hands-on problem solver who prefers shipping resilient, well-tested systems and quietly improving developer experience.
14 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Kennesaw State University
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (27)
unit-testing10
test-automation-framework10
autotest-framework10
python10
test-framework10
lua10
xwindow10
reddit10
memcached10
mocking10
window-manager10
window-management10
backend10
devops10
asyncio9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
lunarmodules/busted
Aug 2012 - Jun 2021
Elegant Lua unit testing.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:3 releases, 201 commits, 105 PRs in 9 years
Contributions summary:Drew primarily contributed to the development and maintenance of the Lua unit testing framework, "busted". They refactored the core test execution logic, improved error handling by adding more detailed stack traces and error messages, and added the core functionality for mocks and spies. These changes include significant modifications to the test runner's structure and assertions, ultimately enhancing the framework's features and usability.
luatestingunitsnapshot-testingunit-testing
qtile/qtile
Dec 2020 - Feb 2021
:cookie: A full-featured, hackable tiling window manager written and configured in Python (X11 + Wayland)
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:75 reviews, 42 commits, 45 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Drew primarily contributed to the Qtile window manager, focusing on bug fixes and improvements to the core functionality and codebase. They addressed issues related to Python and PyPy compatibility by reorganizing import statements and fixed commands not being in subcommands within the scripts. Furthermore, the user refactored the Qtile lifecycle, implemented async hook subscriptions, and made significant changes to drawer.py enabling resizing of internal pixmaps and improving graph rendering by addressing subpixel rendering issues.
full-featuredpythonx11qtilekde-plasma
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