Yannik Tausch
Yannik is a software engineer at QuantCo, working on client-facing projects and on internal developer tooling and infrastructure. He studied Computer Science at KIT and contributes to the conda-forge ecosystem.
Session
As your company grows, so does your software landscape. Different CI configurations, inconsistent linting rules, varying packaging approaches: every new project reinvents the wheel. Scaffolding tools like cookiecutter help with the initial setup — but what happens six months later, when best practices have evolved, and your template has moved on? That’s where most approaches fall apart. And a centralized, “magic” pipeline is no better — it’s opaque, brittle, and leaves no room for customization. Using Copier, we built a standardized yet customizable project template — a paved road that guides developers without boxing them in. But the real game changer is what comes after: Copier’s built-in update mechanism lets us propagate template improvements to hundreds of existing projects. A GitHub bot runs monthly, opens Pull Requests with the latest changes, and a Streamlit dashboard tracks adoption across the organization. Attendees will learn how to build flexible templates, automate ongoing maintenance at scale, and manage version drift — so developers can focus on writing code instead of fighting boilerplate.