Hilmar Gústafsson
Software Engineer at SYNQ
Frederikssund, Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark
Summary
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Top SchoolHilmar Gústafsson is a software engineer with nine years of experience who blends systems-level Rust contributions to prominent open-source projects with production work in MLOps and energy trading platforms. Currently at SYNQ after building MLOps infrastructure at Podimo and developer tooling at Centrica, he focuses on improving software quality through innovative tooling and practical refactors. His open-source work includes backend and editor integrations for the well-known xi-editor and UI/tooling contributions to the Rust-native druid toolkit, demonstrating strengths across back-end, full-stack, and UI domains. A Danish-based engineer studying for an MSc at Aalborg University, he pairs academic rigor with hands-on optimization—e.g., improving rope implementations and autodetecting editor whitespace/line endings—showing attention to both performance and developer experience.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science in Engineering, Master of Science in Engineering at Aalborg UniversityStúdentspróf, Stúdentspróf at Tækniskólinn í Reykjavík
English, Danish, Icelandic
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Github Skills (24)
wp-api10
winapi10
ui-design10
uid10
front-end-development10
rust10
ws-api10
text-editing10
druid10
configuration-management9
logging9
data-structures8
data-structure8
algorithms8
algorithm8
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
linebender/druid
Oct 2018 - Nov 2019
A data-first Rust-native UI design toolkit.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:15 commits, 17 PRs, 36 pushes in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Hilmar contributed significantly to the `druid` UI toolkit, primarily focusing on integrating it within the `xi-win` project to build a UI for a text editor. They refactored code to accommodate `druid`'s structure, implemented file dialogs, and added logging capabilities. The user also worked on windowing functionality, including the handling of window focus events, and made code adjustments to improve performance.
reactrustnative-uirust-nativeui-design
xi-editor/xi-editor
Mar 2018 - Oct 2018
A modern editor with a backend written in Rust.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits, 10 PRs, 3 pushes in 6 months
Contributions summary:Hilmar primarily focused on improving the functionality and maintainability of the xi-editor codebase. Their contributions include fixing links and capitalization issues in the documentation, integrating command dispatching for the view, optimizing the codebase by removing redundant code, and enhancing the rope implementation. Additionally, the user implemented a new feature to autodetect whitespace and line ending settings within the editor's core.
rustbackendeditor
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