Julien Funk
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Summary
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RockstarJulien Funk is a senior full-stack software engineer and creative technologist based in Atlanta with 10+ years delivering research-driven web services and interactive experiences. He blends computational biology-facing API and data-visualization work at Princeton with hands-on creative projects—VR prototypes, interactive installations, and real-time audio tooling—demonstrating a rare mix of scientific rigor and artistic experimentation. A longtime contributor to open-source testing tooling, he enhanced vcrpy with custom persistence hooks to simplify HTTP mocking across projects. Julien’s background spans backend engineering, test automation, distributed QA leadership, and music production, meaning he’s equally comfortable shipping robust APIs or prototyping novel interaction systems. Colleagues benefit from his pragmatic engineering, interdisciplinary curiosity, and history of turning exploratory prototypes into production-quality tools.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (4)
testing10
python10
mocking9
http9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
kevin1024/vcrpy
Jan 2017 - Jan 2017
Automatically mock your HTTP interactions to simplify and speed up testing
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 7 comments in 7 days
Contributions summary:Julien significantly enhanced the `vcrpy` library by implementing features related to custom persistence mechanisms. They introduced the ability to inject custom save and load callbacks, enabling users to define how cassettes are stored and retrieved. Furthermore, the user refactored the code and updated testing by integrating a custom persister, and removing unused imports to improve code clarity and maintainability.
testingpythonmocking
j-funk/pedantic
Mar 2017 - Jul 2021
Contributions:15 PRs, 43 pushes, 16 branches in 4 years 5 months
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