Alf Houge
Software Engineer 2 at Microsoft
Tromsø, Troms og Finnmark, Norway
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Top SchoolAlf Houge is a Software Engineer 2 at Microsoft with eight years of hands-on experience building user-focused web and infrastructure tooling. Based in Tromsø, Norway, he blends front-end expertise—contributing UI and filtering enhancements to the popular open-source Jellyfin Vue client—with cloud and infrastructure work from prior roles using Terraform, Bicep, and Azure. His background spans full-stack development, production internships and intern-to-hire progression at Nets, and a Microsoft internship that prefaced his current role. Alf’s training in programming and system architecture from the University of Oslo, plus study at the University of Copenhagen, underpins a pragmatic approach to improving user experience while keeping systems reliable. Notably, he combines consumer-facing UI polish with backend-focused reliability efforts, a mix that helps bridge product and platform priorities.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at Københavns Universitet - University of CopenhagenSteinerskolen NesoddenBachelorgrad, Informatikk: Programmering og systemarkitektur, Bachelorgrad, Informatikk: Programmering og systemarkitektur at Universitetet i Oslo (UiO)High school, High school at Wayne High SchoolNesodden Videregående Skole
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Github Skills (9)
html10
javascript10
filter10
vue10
vue-jsx10
vuetify9
clientside9
webclient9
css9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
jellyfin/jellyfin-vue
Oct 2020 - Jun 2021
A modern web client for Jellyfin based on Vue
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:24 reviews, 39 commits, 4 PRs in 7 months
Contributions summary:Alf primarily focused on enhancing the front-end user interface for the Jellyfin web client, specifically implementing and refining the filtering functionality within the library view. Their contributions involved adding a filter button, extracting the filter component, adding localization, and setting the maximum height. They also addressed video player scaling issues and made improvements to the "up next" component, including adding support for movies. These changes demonstrate a focus on improving the user experience and functionality of the web client.
nuxtweb-clientvuepwajellyfin-vue
AlfHou/jellyfin-vue
Oct 2020 - Jun 2021
A modern web client for Jellyfin based on Vue.
Contributions:69 pushes, 5 branches in 7 months
web-clientpwavuemodern-webjellyfin
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