Gandalf G
My Personal Projects at KarelCom
Limassol, Cyprus
Summary
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Top SchoolGandalf G is a seasoned software engineer and freelancer based in Limassol, Cyprus with 13 years of professional experience building back-end systems and internal tools, principally in Perl and JavaScript frameworks. He has a strong track record in telecom and web publishing environments, having delivered tooling and portals for PrimeTel, Vodafone and the well-known Greek portal zoo.gr while working at LazyLand. Comfortable across the stack, he pairs pragmatic web front-ends with robust server-side code and automated testing, and maintains a long-running personal projects site (karelcom.net) showcasing varied work. An active contributor to the Perl Weekly Challenge knowledgebase, his open-source solutions demonstrate deep familiarity with algorithms, data structures and Test::More–based unit testing. Trained in mathematics at the University of Cambridge, he brings analytical rigor to engineering problems and an affinity for language-driven tooling and migration scripts. Practical, curious and steady, he excels at translating complex requirements into reliable, well-tested implementations.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
MA, Mathematics, MA, Mathematics at University of CambridgeHigh-School, Sciences, High-School, Sciences at Hellenic American Educational Foundation Athens College - Psychico College
Greek, English, Swedish, Romanian
Stackoverflow
155reputation
15kreached
5answers
25questions
Github Skills (17)
algorithm10
algorithms10
perl10
data-structure10
data-structures10
internet-explorer6
number-theory6
future6
hibernate6
functional-programming6
api6
citrus-framework6
windows6
geoserver6
for-comprehension6
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
manwar/perlweeklychallenge-club
Dec 2020 - Jan 2022
Knowledge base for The Weekly Challenge club members using Perl, Raku, Ada, APL, Awk, Bash, BASIC, Bc, Befunge-93, Bourne Shell, BQN, Brainfuck, C3, C, CESIL, C++, C#, Clojure, COBOL, Coconut, Crystal, D, Dart, Dc, Elm, Emacs Lisp, Erlang, Excel VBA, Fennel, Fish, Forth, Fortran, Gembase, GNAT, Go, Haskell, Haxe, HTML, Idris, IO, J, Janet, Java, JavaScript, Julia, Kotlin, Lisp, Lua, M4, Miranda, Modula 3, MMIX, Mumps, Myrddin, Nim, Nix, Node.js, Nuweb, OCaml, Odin, Ook, Pascal, PHP, Python, Postscript, Prolog, R, Ring, Ruby, Rust, Scala, Scheme, Sed, Smalltalk, SQL, Swift, Tcl, TypeScript, Visual BASIC, WebAssembly, Wolfram, XSLT and Zig.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 13 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Gandalf contributed solutions to various challenges within the Perl Weekly Challenge club, primarily focusing on implementing algorithms and logic in Perl. Their work involved solving problems related to binary trees, coordinate calculations, LRU cache implementation, number theory, and time conversions. The commits demonstrate a good understanding of Perl syntax, data structures, and testing methodologies. The user also provided solutions with the aid of unit tests using Test::More and various built-in or imported utilities.
nim-langknowledge-baseemacsmemberszig
akarelas/ubic-service-hypnotoad
Oct 2013 - Mar 2015
Ubic::Service::Hypnotoad official repository
Contributions:22 commits, 2 PRs, 2 pushes in 1 year 5 months
pythonasyncio
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