Jan Langeland
Utvikler at Metzum
Bergen, Vestland, Norway
Summary
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Top SchoolJan Langeland is a Norwegian software developer with 11 years of experience building and maintaining reliable systems across consultancy and product teams, currently working at Metzum in Bergen. He has held senior development roles at Highsoft and Capgemini and brings practical expertise in test automation and cross-platform test infrastructure, including contributions to the widely used Highcharts JS project. Jan combines a Master's in Software Development with hands-on engineering discipline honed over long client engagements, making him adept at stabilizing and improving legacy codebases and CI pipelines. Known for pragmatic problem solving, he often focuses on making tests and tooling robust on Linux and other varied environments, an underappreciated but crucial part of shipping quality software.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Computer Science, Bachelor, Computer Science at Western Norway University of Applied SciencesMaster, Software Development, Master, Software Development at University of Bergen (UiB)
English
Github Skills (7)
automated-tests10
qunit10
browserstack10
k10
test-automation10
javascript9
cicd8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
highcharts/highcharts
Apr 2019 - Jan 2020
Highcharts JS, the JavaScript charting framework
Role in this project:
Test Automation Engineer
Test Automation EngineerContributions:374 commits, 138 PRs, 307 pushes in 9 months
Contributions summary:Jan primarily contributed to test automation within the repository. Their work involved fixing and adjusting existing tests to address platform-specific issues, particularly on Linux. They modified existing test code to improve functionality across various environments and also focused on creating testing infrastructure improvements by adding automated steps related to the testing of new and existing features. Furthermore, the user updated the testing framework.
chartinghighchartsjavascriptjs
activist/dotfiles
May 2018 - Aug 2025
Contributions:40 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 4 months
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