Victor Felder is a Swiss software engineer and co-founder with 13 years of experience building backend systems, knowledge graphs, and scalable web platforms. He has driven product and R&D efforts across startups and consulting firms, from Big Data and IoT to RDF/Linked Data at Zazuko and backend systems at Livingdocs. A pragmatic backend specialist, he contributes to notable open-source projects—tweaking Django codebases and improving Babel’s ES2015 parameter transforms—demonstrating a focus on correctness, maintainability and testing. Based in Fribourg, he combines entrepreneurial drive with deep hands-on experience across Node.js, Postgres, Redis, Elasticsearch, Docker and semantic web technologies. An uncommon detail: he balances startup leadership with continuous open-source maintenance work, often improving code style and tooling to prevent regressions.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science at Université de Fribourg/Universität Freiburg
Contributions:247 commits, 235 PRs, 233 pushes in 4 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Victor primarily focused on back-end development tasks, making changes to Django models and views. The user's commits include removing unused imports and replacing instances of CRLF line endings by LF line endings across various CSS and python files, suggesting code maintenance and style consistency. The commits involved updating the forum and tutorial sections of the project. The user also added metrics to Munin and fixed some issues related to display of content.
🐠 Babel is a compiler for writing next generation JavaScript.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Contributions:11 commits, 5 PRs, 21 comments in 3 months
Contributions summary:Victor's contributions primarily focus on enhancing the Babel compiler, specifically improving the `babel-plugin-transform-es2015-parameters` plugin. They refactored code to reduce nesting and complexity, addressed issues with rest parameter transformations, and ensured correct argument initialization order. The user also added test cases to maintain code quality and regression prevention.
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