Jonathan Skårstedt
Software Engineer
Greater Gothenburg Metropolitan Area Sweden
Summary
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Top SchoolJonathan Skårstedt is a seasoned software engineer with 16 years of experience building web, payments and eCommerce systems across a mix of languages including Haskell, Clojure, C#, JavaScript and Ruby. He combines backend engineering, security awareness and compiler-level thinking—evidenced by contributions to the GHC-based haste-compiler—to solve tricky integration and performance problems. Comfortable across Linux, relational databases and cloud environments, he has delivered production systems for startups and consultancies and led both development and student-organizational initiatives. Jonathan favors pragmatic tooling (Emacs, shell) and brings an engineer’s curiosity that often reveals novel angles on entrenched problems.
16 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Teachers Education, Teachers Education at Karlstad UniversityBachelor's degree, Bachelor's degree at University of GothenburgSecurity Engineering, Security Engineering at Blekinge Institute of Technology
Swedish, English
Github Skills (6)
ff10
javascript10
ffi10
haskell10
dom-manipulation9
compiler-design8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
valderman/haste-compiler
May 2014 - Dec 2015
A GHC-based Haskell to JavaScript compiler
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 3 PRs, 1 comment in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Jonathan contributed primarily to the backend of the Haskell to JavaScript compiler, `haste-compiler`. Their work involved adding functionality, specifically related to DOM manipulation with JavaScript via foreign function interfaces (FFI). Furthermore, they refined and expanded upon existing features, improving the codebase's usability by incorporating utility functions and optimizing the use of overloaded strings. These changes show a focus on enhancing core functionalities and streamlining the Haskell to JavaScript compilation process.
ghcjavascript-compilerhaskelljavascriptcompiler
nyson/slegexp
Sep 2010 - Jan 2015
Contributions:5 commits, 1 push in 4 years 5 months
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