Bardur Arantsson
Partner at Clockwork Consulting ApS
Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark
Summary
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RockstarBardur Arantsson is a partner at Clockwork Consulting with 16 years of hands-on software development experience based in Copenhagen. He has a strong backend engineering background from roles at DIBS, Theilgaard Mortensen and Danelec, and regularly contributes to open-source C and Haskell projects. His contributions to well-known repos like angband and Cabal show attention to core mechanics—bug fixes, refactors, build/test improvements—and comfort working in low-level C and build tooling for Haskell. He combines practical product-focused engineering with consultancy leadership, helping clients turn complex requirements into maintainable code. Notably, his open-source work spans both game internals and package tooling, revealing a penchant for improving foundational systems rather than surface features.
16 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
English, Danish, faroese
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Github Skills (17)
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Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
haskell/cabal
Nov 2012 - May 2018
Official upstream development repository for Cabal and cabal-install
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:74 commits, 76 PRs, 37 pushes in 5 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Bardur primarily contributed to improving the build process and functionality of the Cabal project and cabal-install. This included changes to logging, fixing issues related to sandbox configuration files, and implementing checks for directory existence. They also removed dead code and refactored the integration tests to use shell scripts. Furthermore, the user made modifications to enable tests within the build process and refactored code for the modular solver.
cabal-installcabalhaskellhackage
angband/angband
Jun 2013 - Dec 2016
A free, single-player roguelike dungeon exploration game
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 3 PRs, 2 comments in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Bardur primarily contributed to the internal workings of the "angband" game, specifically addressing game mechanics and code optimization within the C codebase. Their contributions included fixing a bug related to armor abilities, refactoring code to use constants, and addressing an issue with warrior class initialization. They also corrected indentation and moved flag descriptions to a central file for consistency.
roguelikegamecangband
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