Frederik Sauer
Lead Developer at Dwarf
Copenhagen Metropolitan Area Denmark
Summary
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Top SchoolFrederik Sauer is a Lead Developer based in Copenhagen with 14 years of hands-on experience building performant web and game-related systems. He combines deep PHP backend expertise—honed over a long tenure at Dwarf A/S and now leading engineering at Dwarf—with game-technology knowledge from an M.Sc. in Games and early production work on DADIU projects. Frederik is an active open-source contributor, improving core Laravel-based CMS performance and creating a single-draw-call UI toolkit for Unity that includes shader and text-rendering refinements. He excels at performance optimization, caching strategies, and refactoring core systems to scale reliably across varied codebases. Colleagues describe him as a practical problem-solver who bridges gameplay tooling and production web systems, often surfacing subtle fixes that noticeably improve runtime behavior.
14 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
ValdemarskolenM.Sc., Games - Technology, M.Sc., Games - Technology at IT-Universitetet i KøbenhavnB.Eng., Computer and Information Technology, B.Eng., Computer and Information Technology at Copenhagen University College of EngineeringHTX, HTX at EUC Ringsted10th grade, 10th grade at Sorø UngdomsskoleHendriksholm Skole
Danish, English
Github Skills (25)
cms10
develop10
shader10
admin10
laravel-mix10
backpack10
ui-design10
laravel10
refactor10
uid10
php10
front-end-development10
performance-optimization10
dotnet-core10
refactoring10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
oddgames/UIToolkit
Nov 2011 - Feb 2012
Single draw call UI solution for Unity with multi resolution support and more.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:43 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:Frederik primarily contributed to the UI aspects of the UIToolkit project, modifying shaders for alpha blending and fixing issues with UI elements like toggle buttons and state sprites. They enhanced the positioning system with parent-child relationships and offset methods, refactoring the core UI object and sprite classes. Furthermore, the user updated the text rendering system to properly work with the revamped positioning and scale functionalities, ensuring glyphs are properly managed within the UI toolkit.
drawresolutionunitymulti-resolutioncall-ui
statamic/cms
Dec 2021 - Dec 2022
The core Laravel CMS Composer package
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:15 reviews, 13 commits, 29 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Frederik primarily contributed to the Statamic CMS core package, focusing on performance optimizations and feature enhancements. Their work includes caching and speeding up blueprint field augmentation, sorting nested collection structures, and improving the nav tag's performance through caching. They also added string padding modifiers, refined static caching behavior, and addressed slugging issues. The user collaborated with other developers on several commits.
cmsssgprestashop-modulelaravel10composer
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