Jacob Oscarson
Software Developer at Glooko
Gothenburg, Västra Götaland County, Sweden
Summary
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SeniorJacob Oscarson is a seasoned software developer with 15 years of experience building full-stack systems, backend services, and data-analysis pipelines, currently contributing at Glooko in Gothenburg. He co-founded Juntoo, single-handedly shipping an iPad app and later a Chrome-based web-annotation product, demonstrating entrepreneurial drive and end-to-end ownership. Technically versatile, he moves between Python, JavaScript/React, and systems languages, and has contributed operational improvements to the popular rq Python job-queue project (Unix socket Redis connections and PID handling). After a pause in 2020 for health reasons, he returned to active development and maintains focused open-source work like the ormsnack repository. Pragmatic and DIY-minded, he pairs a developer’s curiosity for new languages and tools with hands-on experience across databases, distributed systems, and frontend integrations.
15 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Swedish, English, Spanish
Stackoverflow
6,363reputation
509kreached
132answers
22questions
coffeescript
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Github Skills (29)
python10
redis10
rqt10
testing10
rq10
unix-socket10
job-queue10
worker-pool9
background-process9
worker-threads9
coffeescript9
worker-service9
underscorejs9
background-processing9
worker-process9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
rq/rq
Mar 2013 - Jun 2013
Simple job queues for Python
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:6 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:Jacob contributed to the `rq/rq` repository by implementing features related to Redis socket connections and worker process management. They added functionality to configure Redis connections using Unix sockets and improved the testability of the configuration parameters. Furthermore, the user added the ability to write a PID file on worker startup, enhancing the control and monitoring of the worker processes. These changes improved the configuration options and operational management of the `rq` job queue system.
pythonredisredis-streamsqueuesrq
jacob414/micropy
Apr 2018 - Mar 2020
My little lib of Python goodies
Contributions:8 PRs, 90 pushes, 4 branches in 1 year 10 months
pythonuidpython36python3cpython
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