Eli Heuer
Design Engineer at Font Garden
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEli Heuer is a design-minded software engineer with 11 years of experience building font tooling, front-end interfaces, and startup products from Seattle. He currently develops a next‑generation font editor in Rust while running a solo startup that combines AI data engineering and smart contract development, blending systems programming with applied ML and blockchain. A repeat contributor and former Font Engineer at Google Fonts, Eli has helped maintain and improve the widely used Google Fonts metadata and QA tooling—work reflected in contributions to google/fonts and the fontbakery project. He founded Font Garden to commercialize font tooling and brings a rare mix of design, QA automation, and community stewardship to typography engineering. Trained in mathematics, he pairs rigorous problem-solving with practical product delivery and an eye for typographic detail.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Mathematics, Bachelor's degree, Mathematics at Lehman College
Github Skills (14)
testing10
quality-assurance10
google-font10
open-source10
font-face10
fonts10
python10
test-automation10
google-fonts10
documentation9
metadata-management9
command-line-tool9
github8
typography7
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
google/fonts
Oct 2018 - Dec 2022
Font files available from Google Fonts, and a public issue tracker for all things Google Fonts
Role in this project:
Community Manager / Developer Advocate
Community Manager / Developer AdvocateContributions:27 reviews, 15 commits, 85 PRs in 4 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Eli's contributions primarily involve adding and updating font descriptions for various fonts within the Google Fonts repository. Their work includes integrating information from upstream repositories, fixing broken links, and incorporating project details and contribution guidelines for each font. The user consistently updates the description files, reflecting changes from upstream sources and ensuring accurate representation of the fonts' origins and development. They focus on maintaining the quality and accuracy of font metadata.
google-fontstrackerfontfontswoff
fonttools/fontbakery
Jun 2018 - Oct 2019
🧁 A font quality assurance tool for everyone
Role in this project:QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:6 reviews, 6 commits, 8 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Eli primarily contributed to the quality assurance aspects of the project, specifically focusing on testing. Their commits involve adding and modifying tests for Google Fonts specific checks, which are a core component of the fontbakery project. They added checks related to Git URLs in description files and variable font families, and fixed typos in existing check definitions.
pythonfontvariable-fontspython-3opentype
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