Yannick Schutz
Freelance Photographer at Douarenn
Berrien, Brittany, France
Summary
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Top SchoolYannick Schutz is a Principal Software Engineer with 15 years of experience who focuses on removing friction for developers and making compliance and tooling genuinely useful rather than burdensome. He spent the last several years at Heroku improving developer productivity and CLI tooling, contributing pragmatic backend and DevOps changes (including notable work on the Heroku CLI) and enhancing API error handling in popular Ruby libraries like sferik/twitter-ruby. Based in Brittany, France, he pairs a pragmatic engineering mindset—favoring simple, reliable solutions—with a human-centered approach that prioritizes organizational change over flashy tech. Outside engineering he co-founded a small retreat and works as a freelance photographer, reflecting a creative streak that informs his thoughtful, user-focused tooling.
15 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master Computer Sciences, Master Computer Sciences at University of Liège
English, French, German
Github Skills (22)
asynchronous10
apidoc10
async10
rspec10
command-line-interface10
ruby10
heroku-cli10
go10
api10
command-line10
heroku10
error-handling10
oauth10
cli10
api-design9
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
heroku/cli
Jul 2015 - Aug 2022
Heroku CLI
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:1 review, 10 commits, 10 PRs in 7 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Yannick's contributions primarily involve enhancements and fixes related to Heroku CLI and related services. This includes adding new flags and functionality to the CLI, refactoring code using async/await, and updating the VPN command. They also worked on modifying code related to Spaces VPN connections, including updating, and exporting patches. Their work spans both backend logic and improvements to the CLI tool itself, suggesting a mix of backend and potential DevOps related work.
heroku-cliherokuheroku-cli-plugin
sferik/twitter-ruby
Jul 2013 - Sep 2013
A Ruby interface to the Twitter API.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:Yannick primarily focused on enhancing the error handling and API integration within the Twitter Ruby library. They implemented the ability to parse and handle specific error codes, adding flexibility to the error response mechanisms. The user also added constants for error codes and refactored error parsing and JSON handling. Furthermore, they integrated reverse OAuth functionality within the Oauth module, indicating a focus on API interaction and authentication aspects.
rubytwitter-api
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