Andreas Pedersen
Freelance Consultant at SunGrove
Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark
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Top SchoolAndreas Pedersen is a pragmatic, hands-on software leader and freelance consultant with 14 years of experience building scalable back-end systems and guiding engineering teams from Copenhagen. He has led migrations from monoliths to microservices, instituted robust CI and quality practices, and driven product-impacting projects at Queue-it that earned internal innovation awards and a Google Next mention. Comfortable in both code and leadership, he contributes to open-source (notably backend work on the widely used PRAW Reddit API wrapper) and prioritizes maintainability through refactoring and clear documentation. His track record includes scaling SaaS products, integrating complex third‑party finance systems, and shipping production-critical vehicle telemetry and payment platforms. A servant leader and present dad, he consistently develops teams—five direct reports were promoted under his management—and pushes culture change to reduce firefighting and increase engineering velocity. Currently in a growth phase as a freelance consultant, he writes about AI and combines technical rigor with an emphasis on developer experience and measurable business impact.
14 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at Københavns Universitet - University of CopenhagenHigh School Graduate Mathematical line, High School Graduate Mathematical line at Høje Taastrup Amtsgymnasium
Danish, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (13)
r-api10
api10
stackexchange-api10
python10
documentation10
api-design9
refactor9
refactoring9
praw6
ios6
reddit6
github6
counter6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
praw-dev/praw
Apr 2012 - Aug 2014
PRAW, an acronym for "Python Reddit API Wrapper", is a python package that allows for simple access to Reddit's API.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:181 commits, 3 comments in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Andreas primarily contributed to the PRAW library's backend functionality. They added docstrings to functions within the `Distinguishable` class and the `Comment` class, enhancing the code's readability and maintainability. Furthermore, the user refactored methods and renamed a method to `send_message` while deprecating compose message. This indicates a focus on code quality, and refactoring. Additionally the user updated the submission object by adding `mark_as_nsfw`, `unmark_as_nsfw`.
apipythonprawreddit-apiapi-wrapper
Damgaard/PyImgur
Oct 2012 - Oct 2016
The simple way of using Imgur.
Contributions:192 commits, 9 PRs, 49 pushes in 4 years 1 month
imgur
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