Frank Trampe
Volunteer at National Building Arts Center
Missouri, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolFrank Trampe is a pragmatic software engineer and long-time open-source maintainer with 13 years of technical experience, splitting his time between consulting, system administration, and volunteer work in Missouri. He maintains FontForge and has contributed backend performance fixes to notable projects like RethinkDB, demonstrating comfort with low-level code, build systems, and cross-architecture porting. As a consultant he has helped organizations including Google and the Saint Louis Regional Chamber with scoping and solving challenging technical problems, from high-performance ports to large systems planning. At the National Building Arts Center he applies engineering discipline to digital archiving and project management, blending technical skills with hands-on conservation work. Colleagues know him for careful documentation and steady maintenance work—often fixing subtle bugs and improving metadata and I/O behavior rather than flashy new features. He combines deep systems knowledge with a practical, service-oriented approach to keeping both software and physical archives running reliably.
13 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
University of Chicago
French
Github Skills (17)
c-language10
c-programming10
ufo10
fontforge10
fileio10
file-processing10
file-handling10
file-access10
cprogramming-language10
makefile9
build-system9
database8
sql-database8
relational-databases8
databases8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
fontforge/fontforge
Feb 2013 - May 2022
Free (libre) font editor for Windows, Mac OS X and GNU+Linux
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:12 releases, 54 reviews, 802 commits in 9 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Frank primarily focused on fixing bugs and adding comments to the FontForge project's codebase. The majority of the code changes were targeted toward improving the U. F. O. handling, including the correct output of the name mangler and kerning class handling. The user also made changes to font metadata parsing, as well as glyph import.
font-editormac-oswindowslibrelinux
rethinkdb/rethinkdb
Oct 2012 - Jan 2013
The open-source database for the realtime web.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:238 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:The user, Frank, focused on enhancing the database's performance by adding support for the `AIOSUPPORT` option. This involved modifying existing code, including `src/arch/io/disk.cc` and related files, to exclude native kernel AIO where the option was absent and updating the build process. Further contributions included merging master branch changes, indicating a role in code integration and maintenance.
realtimenosql-databasebackend-as-a-servicereal-timeclient-library
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