Florent Heyworth
Managing Partner at Heyworth Technologies GmbH
Staufen, Aargau, Switzerland
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Top SchoolFlorent Heyworth is a Managing Partner and founder with over a decade of experience building practical, data-driven software and infrastructure for enterprises and media organizations. He combines a writer’s attention to clarity with deep technical chops in large-scale information processing, duplicate detection, and algorithmic classification of big data. As founder of Heyworth Technologies and napalu gmbH he delivers custom and white-label analytics applications while advising on efficient IT workflows. An active open-source contributor, he’s fixed concurrency bugs and hardened test suites in prominent projects like Mapster and Nim and improved Linux desktop behavior in the Go-based Wails framework. Based in Staufen, Switzerland, he brings rare cross-disciplinary expertise spanning research-grade media analysis to production systems and performance-sensitive backend engineering.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc), Information Systems Management, Master of Science (MSc), Information Systems Management at University of LiverpoolCity & Guilds Certificate in C Programming and Database Design., City & Guilds Certificate in C Programming and Database Design. at Microtech College of Computing, London, UKAmerican International School of Zürich
English, French, German, German, Spanish
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Github Skills (39)
nim-lang10
code-optimization10
javascript10
testing10
linux10
desktop-application10
mappings10
regular-expression10
go10
csharp10
concurrency10
webkit9
c119
compiler-compiler9
c179
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
nim-lang/Nim
Mar 2017 - May 2018
Nim is a statically typed compiled systems programming language. It combines successful concepts from mature languages like Python, Ada and Modula. Its design focuses on efficiency, expressiveness, and elegance (in that order of priority).
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:5 commits, 7 PRs, 24 comments in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Florent primarily contributed to bug fixes and improvements within the Nim standard library, particularly related to base64 encoding and regular expression functionalities. They addressed issues by modifying existing code and added robust tests to ensure the proper functioning of the nre module. Additionally, the user made changes to the test suite, including the compilation and execution of nre tests to ensure failure reporting, and fixed a terminal input issue.
pythonnim-langelegancecompilerprogramming-language
MapsterMapper/Mapster
May 2020 - Jun 2020
A fast, fun and stimulating object to object Mapper
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & QA Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA EngineerContributions:5 commits, 1 PR, 1 comment in 1 day
Contributions summary:Florent primarily focused on addressing concurrency issues within the Mapster library. Their contributions involved fixing race conditions in critical components like `SettingStore`, `IgnoreDictionary`, and `TypeAdapterConfig`. They also adapted and added tests to verify these fixes, ensuring the stability and reliability of the mapping functionality under concurrent access. Further, they modified the project settings and configuration files.
pocoobjectmapperobject-mappercodegeneratorc-sharp
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