Felix Hildén
Software Engineer at Sprout.ai
Finland
Summary
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Top SchoolFelix Hildén is a software engineer from Finland with 8 years of experience blending applied research in computer vision and pattern recognition with practical software development at startups like Sprout.ai. He holds an M.Sc. in Computer Vision and has driven projects from M.Sc. thesis work on clustering for electricity forecasting to production-focused engineering and ML feature introduction at Visma. An active open-source contributor, Felix has improved documentation and CI/hosting for beartype and implemented features and docs improvements for the widely used Python formatter Black, showing care for developer experience as much as code. Comfortable across research and product contexts, he’s equally likely to prototype vision models as to polish docs and DevOps tooling, and he brings an unusual dual focus on music and software that informs creative problem solving.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computational engineering, intelligent computing, 5, Bachelor’s Degree, Computational engineering, intelligent computing, 5 at Lappeenranta University of TechnologyMaster of Science - MS, Computer vision and pattern recognition, Master of Science - MS, Computer vision and pattern recognition at LUT University
English, Finnish, Swedish
Github Skills (21)
cli10
restructuredtext10
pytest10
python10
sphinx10
testing10
rs10
documentation10
code-formatting10
read-the-docs10
github-ci9
strings9
text-processing9
githubaction-workflow9
versioning9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
psf/black
Apr 2021 - Jun 2022
The uncompromising Python code formatter
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Documentation Specialist
Back-end Developer & Documentation SpecialistContributions:254 reviews, 25 commits, 33 PRs in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Felix significantly contributed to the `black` code formatter by implementing new features, fixing bugs, and improving documentation. They added functionality to require a specific Black version, normalized string prefix order, and introduced a `--preview` CLI flag, managing the deprecation of experimental string processing. Moreover, the user created and updated documentation, including FAQs and discussions around comment handling, Discord integration, and style preferences, demonstrating a strong focus on user experience and code clarity.
python-codepre-commit-hookpythongofmtcodeformatter
beartype/beartype
Jan 2021 - Jan 2021
Unbearably fast near-real-time hybrid runtime-static type-checking in pure Python.
Role in this project:Technical Writer & DevOps Engineer
Technical Writer & DevOps EngineerContributions:2 reviews, 5 commits, 3 PRs in 7 days
Contributions summary:Felix primarily focused on improving the project's documentation and setting up infrastructure for documentation hosting. Their contributions included creating the basic documentation structure, adding a 404 error page, integrating a logo into the documentation and README, and configuring the Read the Docs HTML theme. These changes directly improve user experience and project discoverability.
pythonruntime-typecheckingruntimecheckingnear-real-time
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