Frederik S
Community Manager at MetaBrainz Foundation Inc.
Skåne County, Sweden
Summary
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RockstarFrederik S is a Community Manager and seasoned software contributor based in Skåne County, Sweden with 18 years of hands-on experience across back-end and full-stack development. At MetaBrainz since 2015 he blends community stewardship with technical work, contributing to high-profile open-source music projects like MusicBrainz and Picard where he improved URL handling, UI, and data outputs. His contributions show a knack for pragmatic maintenance—fixing installers, refining plugins, and implementing language support—that keeps complex ecosystems healthy and user-friendly. He’s comfortable across PHP, Python, and tooling for media and modding ecosystems (beets, whipper, LOOT), often tackling subtle integration and localization edge cases. Notably, he has a pattern of improving installer and internationalization flows, an underappreciated area that materially raises adoption and contributor onboarding.
18 years of coding experience
Danish, English, Swedish, Norwegian, German, scots
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (62)
tooling10
musicbrainz10
debug10
delphix10
javascript10
c-language10
pyq10
python10
toolbox10
delphi10
tagging10
plugin-development10
nsis10
ui-design10
perl10
Programming languages (29)
Github contributions (5)
whipper-team/whipper
Jan 2017 - May 2021
Python CD-DA ripper preferring accuracy over speed
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 75 commits, 31 PRs in 4 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Frederik primarily contributed to the refactoring and maintenance of the `whipper` project, focusing on code cleanup, and adherence to PEP8 standards. The user made several changes to the setup.py file, and updated file names and inline documentation. The user's changes involved modifications to existing code, indicating a focus on project structure and consistency. They also addressed MusicBrainz nomenclature, showing awareness of the project's dependencies.
unixaccuracypythonspeedcd-ripper
metabrainz/picard
Jun 2012 - Feb 2017
Picard is a cross-platform music tagger powered by the MusicBrainz database
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:59 commits, 14 PRs, 74 comments in 4 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Frederik contributed to the MusicBrainz Picard project by making UI improvements, adding features, and refactoring existing code. They made changes to UI elements, specifically options pages, including translation updates and UI layout adjustments. The user also added features like support for new file extensions and refactored code related to adding files and clusters to MusicBrainz releases, demonstrating a comprehensive understanding of the application's functionality.
pythonpicardaudio-fileacoustidmusicbrainz
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