Olli Meier
Berlin, Germany
Summary
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SeniorOlli Meier is a software engineer and designer based in Berlin with nine years of experience specializing in font engineering, QA automation, and typography-driven tooling. He blends white-box and black-box testing to automate validation of static and variable fonts, grounded in deep knowledge of OpenType specifications and cross-platform font behavior. A contributor to prominent open-source projects like fonttools and fontbakery, he has strengthened name table handling and expanded font quality checks used by the type community. His background in communication design and teaching informs a pragmatic, user-centered approach to building developer tooling and font workflows. Olli’s work spans product engineering at Monotype and Fontwerk to freelance design collaborations, reflecting a rare crossover of type design sensibility and production-grade software skills. He’s as comfortable refactoring Python libraries as he is advising on typography best practices to improve end-to-end font pipelines.
10 years of coding experience
Github Skills (13)
unit-testing10
test-framework10
opentype10
fonts10
pytest10
python10
unit-test10
testing10
command-line-tool9
algorithms8
data-structures8
algorithm8
data-structure8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
fonttools/fontbakery
Jan 2022 - Apr 2022
🧁 A font quality assurance tool for everyone
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:1 review, 6 commits, 15 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Olli primarily contributed to the development and enhancement of the `fontbakery` project's testing infrastructure. They added new checks and corresponding tests to the Fontwerk profile, focusing on font quality assurance. The contributions involved writing test cases using existing testing frameworks and integrating these tests within the project's structure. Furthermore, the user made adjustments to the testing framework and included checks for style linking.
quality-assurancecommand-line-toolfont
fonttools/fonttools
Feb 2022 - Feb 2022
A library to manipulate font files from Python.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 reviews, 35 commits, 2 PRs in 2 days
Contributions summary:Olli primarily contributed to the `fonttools/fonttools` project by extending and refining the name table functionality within the library. They added methods for retrieving family, subfamily, and full names, alongside corresponding unit tests. Furthermore, they refactored existing code based on feedback and addressed minor issues, such as typos, ensuring the library's accuracy and reliability. The user's work focused on improving the font manipulation capabilities of the Python library.
pythonfontsopentype
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