Felix Rieseberg
Member Of Technical Staff at Anthropic
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolFelix Rieseberg is a seasoned software leader and engineer with 12 years of experience, currently a Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic in San Francisco building desktop versions of Claude for macOS and Windows. He previously led Notion’s Web Infrastructure and Desktop teams (growing the team from 4 to 15) and held senior engineering and management roles at Stripe, Slack, and Microsoft. An active Electron maintainer since 2016, he’s known for high-profile, playful projects like windows95 and macintosh.js that demonstrate deep cross-platform Electron expertise and practical OS emulation. His open-source tooling—windows-build-tools, npm-windows-upgrade, Electron Fiddle work, and contributions to Electron’s Windows toasts and MongoDB Compass installer—shows a knack for bridging native OS packaging, C++ integrations, TypeScript/React front ends, and developer experience. He holds an MSc from Oxford in Social Science of the Internet, bringing a rare mix of systems-level craft and human-centered perspective to platform design.
12 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
MSc, Social Science of the Internet, MSc, Social Science of the Internet at University of OxfordBA, Communication and Media Science, German, BA, Communication and Media Science, German at Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
English, German
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Github Skills (52)
filesystem10
javascript10
c-language10
npm10
electron10
windows-installer10
wp-api10
testing10
windows10
file-system-access10
css10
typescript10
winapi10
ui-design10
uid10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
felixrieseberg/windows-build-tools
Jun 2016 - Jun 2021
:package: Install C++ Build Tools for Windows using npm
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:16 releases, 1 review, 257 commits in 5 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Felix primarily worked on the core components of the `windows-build-tools` project, as evidenced by the initial release commits. The commits involved the development of the `src/install` directory, including `index.js`, `launch.js`, and `tailer.js`. The user also added supporting code like `src/utils.js` and modified the `src/download.js` file, demonstrating a focus on creating and integrating the building tools installer.
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felixrieseberg/npm-windows-upgrade
Jun 2015 - Jun 2019
:rocket: Upgrade npm on Windows
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:11 releases, 239 commits, 19 PRs in 4 years
Contributions summary:Felix primarily worked on the `powershell/upgrade-npm.ps1` script, which is central to the project's functionality of upgrading npm on Windows. Their contributions included core logic for self-elevation, x86/x64 environment handling, path manipulation, and ensuring the proper installation and configuration of npm. They also integrated debugging tools and ensured that existing configurations, like .npmrc, were properly handled during the upgrade process. Finally, the user contributed by adding test integrations.
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