Audun Halland
Senior Software Engineer at Thales
Oslo, Norway
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Top SchoolAudun Halland is a Senior Software Engineer based in Oslo with 11 years of experience building high-performance, multi-language systems from embedded phone UIs to modern web backends. He’s worked across Rust, Kotlin/JVM, JS/TS and native C++, and has driven architecture, performance and tooling—most recently contributing refactors and performance-focused changes to the widely used Juniper GraphQL library for Rust. Known for pragmatic problem solving, he prefers meaningful technical conversations (no generic recruiter spam) and thrives on modernizing tech stacks. His background includes low-level graphics, internationalization and constrained-device optimizations from his Nokia/Smarterphone days, which still inform how he approaches efficient, production-grade systems today.
12 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer science Logic Linguistics, BS Computer science Logic Linguistics at University of OsloGeneral studies, General studies at Vågsbygd videregående skole
English, Norwegian
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Github Skills (11)
graphql10
parser10
rust10
refactoring10
webpages10
wordpress-graphql10
wpgraphql10
web-content10
refactor10
cargo9
rust-lang9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
graphql-rust/juniper
Nov 2017 - May 2025
GraphQL server library for Rust
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:22 reviews, 12 PRs, 39 comments in 7 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Audun primarily focused on refactoring and improving the Juniper GraphQL server library for Rust. Their contributions involved abstracting code related to spanning and positions in the parser, adding `Span` to different parts of the code, and reworking the look-ahead machinery to be lazy-evaluated for performance and efficiency. They also addressed internal code organization, particularly related to introspection output.
graphqlrustrust-librarycargo
audunhalland/rust-realworld-entrait
Feb 2022 - Dec 2022
Contributions:99 commits, 65 pushes, 11 branches in 10 months
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