Harry Vangberg
Software Engineer at Aalborg University
Aalborg, North Denmark Region
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolHarry Vangberg is a software engineer and serial startup co-founder with 17 years of experience building product-led web platforms and leading teams through acquisition and merger. He played a hands-on role building Firmafon’s full tech stack and scaled the product to 15,000 customers before its acquisition, then led product unification efforts as Chief Product Officer at Relatel. An active contributor to Ruby open-source projects, he’s improved HTTP client reliability and hardened test suites for Mongo mappers, reflecting a strong QA and backend focus. Now studying biotechnology at Aalborg University, he’s uniquely combining deep engineering and product leadership experience with emerging life-sciences knowledge.
17 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Biotechnology, Bachelor's degree, Biotechnology at Aalborg UniversityBachelor's degree (discontinued), Biology, Bachelor's degree (discontinued), Biology at University of Vienna
Github Skills (13)
httplib10
ruby10
http10
rspec10
datetime10
http-client10
datetimes10
httpc10
integration-testing10
testing10
rack9
mongodb-database9
mongodb9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
savonrb/httpi
Dec 2010 - Feb 2011
Common interface for Ruby's HTTP clients
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA EngineerContributions:10 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:Harry primarily focused on improving the functionality and reliability of the HTTP client library. Their work included implementing header handling with `HeaderHash`, fixing response header issues across multiple HTTP client adapters (`httpclient`, and `net/http`), and integrating a mock server for integration testing. Furthermore, the user implemented and tested header-related functionality and contributed to testing different aspects of the library using a mock server.
clientsrubyfaraday
mongomapper/mongomapper
Feb 2010 - Feb 2010
A Ruby Object Mapper for Mongo
Role in this project:QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:5 commits in 1 day
Contributions summary:Harry's contributions primarily focused on improving the test suite for the mongomapper Ruby Object Mapper. They addressed date and time-related issues in the tests, ensuring correct behavior across different Ruby versions. Specific changes include resolving ambiguity in date handling, updating time zone settings for tests, and incorporating workarounds for compatibility issues.
ruby-object-mappermongomongoidobject-mapperruby
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