Jon Borgthorsson
Software Engineer at Montel Intergalactic
Helsinki, Finland
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Top SchoolJon Borgthorsson is a software engineer with 17 years of experience building backend systems, from Linux server architecture and telco automation to microservice VOD platforms and Erlang/Elixir projects. Born in East Iceland and recently relocated to Helsinki, he blends practical system administration skills with deep backend development expertise in Ruby, Node.js, Erlang, and Elixir, and has contributed project generators to the Nitrogen web framework. He also augmented his technical profile with a B.Sc. in Forest Sciences and studies in GIS, statistics and biometrics, gaining domain experience at the Icelandic Environment Agency. Comfortable across databases, containerization and geospatial tooling, he excels at designing resilient server-side systems and translating complex operational needs into reliable software.
17 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree, Forest Economics, Master's Degree, Forest Economics at University of HelsinkiBachelor's degree, Forest Sciences B.Sc., Bachelor's degree, Forest Sciences B.Sc. at Agricultural University of Iceland
English, Icelandic
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Github Skills (19)
data-generation10
develop10
erlang10
web-application10
project-setup10
new-project10
code-generation10
web-framework10
application10
git9
websocket9
api-design7
macos6
mochiweb6
encryption6
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
nitrogen/nitrogen
Dec 2008 - Jan 2009
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:15 commits in 10 days
Contributions summary:Jon focused on developing a project generator for the Nitrogen web framework, as well as a page generator, indicating core back-end work. They created and modified Erlang files to scaffold project structures, including app and supervisor files. Additionally, the user adapted code to fit changes in Nitrogen, and made adjustments to a session file. They implemented modifications and improvements of a key-value replacer for project and page creation.
nitrogenerlangweb-frameworkwebsockets
tagplay/node-skyboot
Feb 2015 - Jul 2015
Contributions:48 commits, 19 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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