Pascal Hertleif
Senior Digital Doer at Softleif AB
Gothenburg, Sweden
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Top SchoolPascal Hertleif is a Senior Digital Doer with 17 years of hands-on software engineering experience based in Gothenburg, Sweden. He blends frontend polish and backend robustness, contributing to high-profile Rust projects including the Rust website, rust-analyzer, cargo, and serde, with particular strength in CLI tooling and developer experience. Pascal has driven full-stack features—from UI/UX and templating to error reporting, diagnostics and build automation—demonstrating a pragmatic focus on shipping usable tooling. His work on projects like cargo-generate and cargo-edit shows an eye for developer productivity, while contributions to regex, async-std and diesel reflect deep systems-level craftsmanship. A frequent refactorer and documentation improver, he elevates code clarity and usability as much as functionality. Outside standard roles he enjoys "tricking computers into doing my work," meaning he automates repetitive developer tasks to make teams more productive.
17 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at The University of Bonn
English, German, Swedish
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Github Skills (98)
dependency-management10
serde-json10
benchmark10
parser10
cargo10
diagnostic-tool10
website-development10
package-management10
highlight10
testing10
command-line-interface10
templater10
deserialization10
highlighter10
async-await10
Programming languages (31)
Github contributions (5)
killercup/cargo-edit
Jun 2015 - Sep 2021
A utility for managing cargo dependencies from the command line.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:13 releases, 6 reviews, 169 commits in 6 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Pascal primarily focused on developing and modifying backend functionalities for managing cargo dependencies. Their contributions included refactoring code, adding features such as dependency version handling, and implementing a tree-like dependency listing. They also worked on refactoring the command-line argument parsing to add the possibility of adding multiple dependencies. The changes were implemented by modifying the `Cargo.toml` file and associated modules.
cratedependenciesrustcargocommand-line
rust-cli/human-panic
Apr 2018 - Oct 2018
Panic messages for humans.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Automation EngineerContributions:21 commits, 15 PRs, 7 pushes in 5 months
Contributions summary:Pascal primarily focused on improving the "human-panic" crate, addressing issues related to error handling and reporting within the Rust environment. They implemented changes to handle panics, generate informative crash reports, and integrate the use of `termcolor` for colored output. The user also worked on improving build processes by making `clippy` a CI-only dependency and integrating testing with `assert_cli`, contributing to the project's robustness and developer experience. They also worked on general code cleanup and formatting.
panicrustbothuman-centered-designfor-humans
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