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Benjamin Schwerdtner is fullstack developer with creative, non-linear background that is highly regarded by professionals.
I self-start contributions and translate your needs and problems into actionable, technical solutions.
I emphasise practicality, straight forward design, product velocity without ever trading off solid, extensible software that 'just works'.
You are: A professional stakeholder or team that
- wants to augment their Clojure/Clojurescript team with a contributor.
- looks for a senior frontend developer to architect and lead their frontend project.
- looks for a research engineer coming from the industry to help you design and implement systems using hyperdimensional computing, neurosymbolic AI, evolutionary or biological principled algorithms, meta-programming, program synthesis, analogical reasoning or similar.
Experience:
Mid-Senior engineer, 7 years experience with a variety of technologies.
Lisp, Clojure, Browser (javascript, typescript, HTML, CSS, Clojurescript), Mobile, Unity, C#, Java, Python, Unix. Directly integrated frontend and backends. Open source contributions in the emacs and Clojure ecosystem.
Specialities: functional programming, data oriented design, neuroscience and biology background.
Biggest Ideas:
Solving a problem without writing new software is one of the most character building moments as software engineer. Because once 'do nothing', and 'use existing stuff' is on the table, the space of possible problem solving solutions is that much wider.
Design is when you write down at least a second idea and then say which is better.
The largest mistake to do is building the wrong thing. This is why the place of most leverage, where design and problem solving can save you the most amount of time, is outside the reach of programming languages. But in the space where we iterate on the ideas.