Software Developer at *********************************
Bavaria, Germany
Join Prog.AI to see contacts
Join Prog.AI to see contacts
Summary
🤩
Rockstar
🎓
Top School
Francesc Elies is a versatile Software Developer with 11 years’ experience building and modernizing cross-platform systems across Germany and the Netherlands, rooted in a Telecommunications Engineering background. He has led monorepo build/test infrastructure and migrated large C/C++ codebases toward Rust while introducing typing to a 70k-line Python project and adding Typescript to the stack. An active open-source contributor, his back-end work includes improving the bcolz columnar data library and enhancing Python type stubs in typeshed, reflecting attention to performance, correctness and tooling. Comfortable across embedded, Linux and Windows environments, he boosts team productivity with bespoke CLI tools and pragmatic CI/CD practices (Azure DevOps, Jenkins, CircleCI). Multilingual (Spanish/Catalan native, fluent English and German) and based in Bavaria, he pairs deep technical craft with cross-cultural collaboration.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
TELECOMMUNICATION ENGINEERING Telecommunications Engineering, TELECOMMUNICATION ENGINEERING Telecommunications Engineering at Polytechnic University of Catalonia
Contributions:103 commits, 39 PRs, 2 pushes in 11 months
Contributions summary:Francesc primarily contributed to the `bcolz` library, focusing on improving the core functionalities and extending its capabilities. Their work included refining the Cython code, adding new features such as a chunks iterator, and implementing context managers for disk-based tables, as well as implementing tests and fixing bugs. The user also added and updated documentation, particularly for the with statement in relation to ctable and carray objects.
A community-driven Emacs distribution - The best editor is neither Emacs nor Vim, it's Emacs *and* Vim!
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Contributions:19 commits, 25 PRs, 46 comments in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Francesc's commits primarily focus on enhancing the Spacemacs configuration for Emacs, a community-driven distribution. Their contributions include adding and modifying keybindings, particularly for modes related to compilation, prodigy, org-mode, and CSV handling. The user also addresses bug fixes and enhancements related to buffer management and email integration, including the addition of a new notmuch email layer. These changes demonstrate a focus on improving user experience and integrating various tools within the Emacs ecosystem.
configurationvimspacemacsemacsemacs-lsp
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.
Request Free Trial
Francesc Elies - Software Developer at *********************************