Franz Geiger
Managing Director at The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law
Columbus, Ohio, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolFranz Geiger is a seasoned real estate development leader and attorney with over 25 years driving complex, mixed-use projects as Managing Director of NP Limited Partnership, the developer of Columbus’s 1,200-acre Polaris Centers of Commerce. He combines hands-on dealmaking—from acquisition, zoning and construction management to leasing, dispositions and public–private partnerships—with legal expertise honed as counsel and former real estate lawyer. Franz has overseen long-term tenant relationships that include major corporations and flagship retail anchors, and he teaches real estate development as an adjunct at Ohio State University Moritz College of Law. Unusually for a developer, he also contributes to open-source software efforts, improving GitHub API rate-limit handling in a widely used Python library, reflecting a pragmatic technical fluency that complements his commercial and legal acumen.
14 years of coding experience
AB, Political Science, AB, Political Science at University of MichiganJuris Doctor, Law, Juris Doctor, Law at The Ohio State University Moritz College of Law
Github Skills (5)
rest-api10
rest-client10
github-api10
python10
testing9
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
sigmavirus24/github3.py
Jan 2018 - Jan 2018
Hi, I'm a library for interacting with GItHub's REST API in a convenient and ergonomic way. I work on Python 3.6+.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits, 2 PRs, 10 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Franz primarily focused on improving the rate limiting functionality within the `github3.py` library. They addressed issues related to incorrect rate limit information, particularly for search API calls. Their work involved modifying existing classes and structures, adding new test cases, and refactoring the code to provide accurate rate limit details for different API resources. These changes ensured the library correctly handles and reports rate limits for GitHub API interactions.
apipythonpython-3-6python38rest-client
justfortherec/fairphone2-build-env
Jan 2016 - Jan 2017
Contributions:18 commits, 1 PR, 12 pushes in 1 year
docker-imagedockerandroidbuild-environment
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