Fred Nordin
Software Engineer at Springer Nature
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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RockstarFred Nordin is a software engineer based in London with 8 years of experience building backend systems, primarily using Kotlin. He is an active open-source contributor to the popular http4k toolkit, where he developed an Apache http-core server backend, added micrometer metrics, and extended JSON-RPC 2.0 and Java HTTP client functionality. Comfortable designing reliable HTTP services and instrumentation, he focuses on pragmatic, testable solutions that scale. Colleagues describe him as hands-on and curious—he still jokes about dreaming of becoming an astronaut, which reflects his appetite for ambitious technical challenges.
8 years of coding experience
Github Skills (11)
kotlin10
json-rpc10
http10
http-client10
apache-http-client10
http-server10
testability9
tdd9
micrometer9
immutability-helper8
immutability8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
http4k/http4k
Dec 2017 - Jan 2023
The Functional toolkit for Kotlin HTTP applications. http4k provides a simple and uniform way to serve, consume, and test HTTP services.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:8 reviews, 14 commits, 22 PRs in 5 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Fred primarily contributed to the development of the backend functionality of the http4k project. Their work involved the creation of a new server backend module based on Apache http-core, including the implementation of the `ApacheServer` class and associated components. They also integrated a micrometer metrics module, adding request counters and timers for server and client, and implemented new features for JSON-RPC 2.0 support. Furthermore, they worked on enhancing Java HTTP client implementations, adding improvements.
http4khttp-clienthttp-servicesservetypesafe
FredNordin/http4k
May 2021 - Nov 2022
The Functional toolkit for Kotlin HTTP applications. http4k provides a simple and uniform way to serve, consume, and test HTTP services.
Contributions:15 pushes, 6 branches in 1 year 6 months
http4khttp-servicesserveconsumekotlin
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