Jim Myhrberg
Staff Software Engineer at Krystal
England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolJim Myhrberg is a Staff Software Engineer based in the UK with 18 years of experience building high-performance backend systems, distributed queue processors, and microservice REST APIs—primarily using Ruby and Rails. He consistently delivers well-tested, maintainable code, prioritizes observability and tech-debt reduction, and has a track record of refactoring legacy AMQP workers into robust, production-ready services. Jim combines hands-on engineering with DevOps expertise, contributing to prominent open-source projects like Faraday and Hubot and improving deployability for Matrix via Docker/Ansible. He’s launched customer-facing dashboards and real-time data pipelines for cloud and enterprise clients, and even built an email platform that handled over 10 million messages per day. A quick study who enjoys tinkering across code, tooling and design, he equally values doing things properly and leaving systems better than he found them.
18 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D. In Lunacy, Ph.D. In Lunacy at School of Life
English, Swedish, Greek
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Github Skills (81)
tooling10
csv-parse10
faraday10
package-management10
rspec10
bash10
httpc10
base64-encoding10
ruby10
http-client10
eventmachine10
automation10
csv-parsing10
ansible-galaxy10
concurrency10
Programming languages (26)
Github contributions (5)
jimeh/tmuxifier
Apr 2012 - Apr 2017
Tmuxify your Tmux. Powerful session, window & pane management for Tmux.
Role in this project:
DevOps Engineer
DevOps EngineerContributions:239 commits, 22 PRs, 25 pushes in 5 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Jim primarily contributed to the project by implementing and refining the infrastructure configuration and improving the layout and configuration of the tmux environment. They added new commands and examples, refactored code to improve the user experience, and improved the functionality of existing features. The user made updates to the layout of the user's configuration and added example files as well to enhance the user experience.
tmux
jimeh/tmux-themepack
Oct 2013 - Dec 2019
A pack of various Tmux themes.
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:30 commits, 13 PRs, 31 pushes in 6 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Jim's contributions primarily revolved around enhancing and maintaining tmux themes. They fixed licensing issues, enabling the loading of non-powerline themes, and adding unit tests to validate theme configurations. The user also implemented features to customize the status bar and window formats, demonstrating a strong understanding of the project's core functionality. Their work included modifying theme files and developing test scripts.
tmux-theme
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