Peter Hebden
Computer Scientist
Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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RockstarPeter Hebden is a UK-based computer scientist with six years of hands-on experience blending Computer Science and Mathematics in both academic and open-source settings. He contributes to well-known tooling like sharkdp/bat, improving printing functionality and robustness by introducing an OutputHandle enum and removing unsafe unwraps, demonstrating careful attention to error handling and code quality. Comfortable in back-end development, he balances algorithmic thinking with pragmatic engineering practices and a focus on maintainable, lint-clean code. Based in Birmingham, he brings a student’s curiosity paired with practical contributions to mature open-source projects, signaling readiness to tackle production systems and collaborative engineering challenges.
6 years of coding experience
Github Skills (9)
rust10
command-line10
syntax-highlighting9
error-handling9
code-optimization8
toolz7
toolbox7
cli7
tooling7
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
sharkdp/bat
Jul 2023 - Sep 2023
A cat(1) clone with wings.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 PR, 2 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Peter contributed to the `bat` project by implementing several features and fixing bugs related to the printing functionality. They introduced an `OutputHandle` enum to manage output streams. Additionally, they addressed issues by removing an unnecessary `unwrap` call and handling potential errors, specifically within the printing and controller logic. Their changes also involved addressing clippy lints and fixing function signatures to improve code quality.
rustwingsterminalcommand-linesyntax-highlighting
fishfolk/bomby
Sep 2022 - Jan 2023
Fishy Bomberman game made with Rust and Bevy
Contributions:55 commits, 11 PRs, 55 pushes in 4 months
bevygameminesweeperrustpixel-art
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