Alexander F. Rødseth
Software Engineer at Appear TV AS
Oslo, Norway
Summary
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RockstarAlexander Kjäll is a Rust software developer based in Oslo with 14 years of experience building reliable systems and shipping production software. He pairs hands-on systems and backend engineering with security leadership, having served as Lead Security Engineer at Schibsted before joining Hafslund. An active open-source maintainer and Debian Rust team member, he has notable contributions to Go projects such as algernon and urfave/cli and experience maintaining packages for Homebrew and Arch Linux. His background spans Go, Python, C/C++, Java and Linux operations, giving him strong cross-language tooling, packaging and CI/CD expertise. He also plays the game of Go—an offbeat hint at the strategic thinking he brings to system design and security trade-offs.
15 years of coding experience
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Github Skills (45)
github-ci10
webconfig10
python10
package-management10
go-language10
testing10
css10
networking10
homebrew10
lua10
go10
command-line10
html10
golang10
webserver10
Programming languages (38)
Github contributions (5)
xyproto/algernon
Mar 2015 - Jan 2023
Small self-contained pure-Go web server with Lua, Teal, Markdown, Ollama, HTTP/2, QUIC, Redis, SQLite and PostgreSQL support ++
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:44 releases, 1 review, 2003 commits in 7 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Alexander focused on enhancing the web server's functionality. Their contributions included implementing a Lua-based HTTP client, integrating a simple form description language, and improving the handling of Markdown files. Additionally, the user addressed and resolved specific issues, such as the correct handling of file extensions and HTML headers, and added example applications.
quicself-containedpure-gotophatgo-web
Chaosthebot/Chaos
May 2017 - May 2017
A social coding experiment that updates its own code democratically.
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:14 commits, 13 PRs, 55 comments in 3 days
Contributions summary:Alexander primarily contributed to the back-end functionality and the overall operation of the "chaos" repository. They implemented the main function, updated requirements, integrated a basic HTTP server, and included a game server with a chicken game. Furthermore, the user managed the CI/CD pipeline and related automation tasks such as running puppet and ensured proper bootstrapping.
pythonpython3updatessocial-coding
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