Elis Hirwing
Lead Backend Developer at TVNU Sweden AB / TV.nu
Värmland County, Sweden
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Top SchoolElis Hirwing is a Lead Backend Developer with 15 years of experience building high-availability APIs, migrating legacy systems to containerized Kubernetes infrastructure, and optimizing databases for scale. Based in Värmland, Sweden, he combines hands-on DevOps skills—Docker, HAProxy, MariaDB migrations and TLS termination—with a track record of leading teams through complex platform upgrades (PHP 5.5 → 8.1) without downtime. He founded a consulting firm focused on reproducible builds, CI/CD and NixOS-enabled deployments, and has driven performant data ingestion patterns such as XML streaming for large datasets. An active open-source contributor, Elis has improved developer tooling and user experience in projects ranging from Emacs PHP mode to ponysay shell completions, demonstrating attention to developer ergonomics as well as production reliability.
15 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Computers Networks Programming Physics Math, Computers Networks Programming Physics Math at S:t Eriks Gymnasium
Github Skills (17)
scripting10
emacs-lisp10
php10
script10
sh10
shell10
psr-210
code-standards9
git-repository9
git9
github9
coding-conventions9
emacs9
code-formatting9
coding-style9
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
erkin/ponysay
Apr 2012 - Feb 2013
Pony rewrite of cowsay.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:48 commits in 10 months
Contributions summary:Elis primarily contributed to the development of shell completions for the `ponysay` project, focusing on fish and bash shells. Their work involved creating and updating shell completion scripts for both `ponysay` and `ponythink`, ensuring compatibility with different terminal environments. The user also updated the perl script to format pony names and refactored the python script. They implemented fixes to the completion scripts and improved the overall user experience.
rewritelinuxcowsaypony
emacs-php/php-mode
Jun 2014 - Oct 2014
A powerful and flexible Emacs major mode for editing PHP scripts
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 commits, 5 comments, 2 issues in 3 months
Contributions summary:Elis primarily contributed to the `php-mode` Emacs major mode, focusing on improving its PHP code formatting and style enforcement capabilities. Their work included adding support for PSR-2 coding standards, enhancing whitespace and newline handling to align with these standards, and correcting indentation for comments. Furthermore, they made changes related to versioning and incorporated updates to various libraries and coding styles such as Drupal, Wordpress and Symfony2.
emacsmajor-modephp
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