Alexander Kjäll
Rust Software Developer at Hafslund
Oslo, Norway
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Top SchoolAlexander Kjäll is a Rust software developer based in Oslo with 14 years of experience building backend systems, security tooling, and Linux platforms across media and infrastructure companies. Currently at Hafslund and a long-time Debian Rust team maintainer, he blends production-grade Rust development with packaging and distribution expertise. Previously he led security engineering at Schibsted and has a strong background in Java, system administration and ETL from earlier roles. An active open-source contributor, he has contributed bindings and tests to the widely used rust-lang/git2-rs project, showing attention to API clarity and interoperability with C libraries. He gravitates toward innovative environments where systems reliability and secure, maintainable code matter.
14 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Naturteknisk linje, Naturteknisk linje at Hersby GymnasiumStockholm University
Swedish, English, German, Norwegian
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Github Skills (18)
git10
libgit210
libgit2sharp10
rust10
apache9
apidoc9
windows9
api9
testing7
documentation7
mongodb6
ant6
sql6
sqlite6
java6
Programming languages (22)
Github contributions (5)
rust-lang/git2-rs
Sep 2019 - Jan 2021
libgit2 bindings for Rust
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 5 commits, 6 PRs in 1 year 3 months
Contributions summary:Alexander contributed to the `git2-rs` repository, which provides Rust bindings for the libgit2 C library. Their work focused on implementing new bindings for C functions such as `git_commit_create_buffer`. They also addressed documentation issues and fixed typos to improve the clarity of the API. Further, the user added a test to the configuration of the repository.
libgit2rust
alexanderkjall/advisory-db
Aug 2020 - May 2026
Security advisory database for Rust crates published through crates.io
Contributions:29 pushes, 42 branches in 5 years 9 months
rustsecuritycrates-iorust-cratesdatabase
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