Joshua Nielsen
Software Engineer at Idura
Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark
Summary
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RockstarJoshua Nielsen is a full‑stack software engineer and tech leader based in Copenhagen with 11 years of experience building large CMS sites, dynamic web apps and award-winning campaign microsites for major Danish brands. He has progressed from hands-on full‑stack development to tech lead and tech director roles, hiring and managing medium-sized teams while owning resilient, scalable cloud deployments. Equally comfortable in front-end UX/detail work and back-end systems, he contributes to open-source projects such as the Arwes sci‑fi UI framework and a Node.js Pokémon GO API library, improving type safety and async robustness. Known for turning ambitious creative briefs into production-ready, well-architected solutions, he pairs pragmatic engineering with an eye for animation and UI polish that elevates user experience.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Danish, English
Github Skills (16)
asynchronous10
application-framework10
app-framework10
web-framework10
typescript10
nodejs10
javascript10
typescripts10
ui-design10
animation10
react10
async10
typescript-types10
apidoc9
api9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
Armax/Pokemon-GO-node-api
Jul 2016 - Jul 2016
Pokemon GO api node.js library
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:35 commits, 13 PRs, 2 pushes in 15 days
Contributions summary:Joshua primarily contributed to the back-end logic of the Pokemon GO API library. Their commits focused on implementing error-first style callbacks for asynchronous operations, enhancing the robustness of the API. The user also added getter and setter methods for location data, adding flexibility for users, and corrected code formatting. Furthermore, the user implemented an init function to initialize all dependencies needed.
golangapijs-librarynode-jsnode-api
arwes/arwes
Dec 2020 - Jan 2021
Futuristic Sci-Fi UI Web Framework.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:5 reviews, 8 commits, 3 PRs in 20 days
Contributions summary:Joshua primarily focused on enhancing the Arwes framework's animation and UI component implementations. They improved type inference for the `withAnimator` and `extendAnimator` Higher-Order Components (HOCs), which likely improves developer experience. The user also addressed code issues by fixing bugs and refactoring code related to the component integration in the framework. Several commits involved the refactoring and improving type definitions.
cyberprepreactscifisynthwaveweb-ui
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