Kasper Nilsson
Senior Software Engineer at Waymo
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKasper Nilsson is a Senior Software Engineer with a decade of experience building developer tools, simulation systems, and full-stack search tooling at companies from Google to Waymo in San Francisco. He blends strong front-end craftsmanship—evidenced by meaningful contributions to the popular tiptap rich-text editor—with backend and automation experience from large-scale engineering at Waymo and Google. Skilled across React, modern JavaScript, C++, and data collection pipelines, he has a track record of shipping practical developer-facing tools and simulation features. His background in mathematics and computer science informs a pragmatic, systems-minded approach to problem solving, and he frequently improves usability by refactoring and adding small but impactful features like checkable task items that work outside editor control.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Maryland, College ParkUMBC
Github Skills (10)
editors10
prosemirror10
javascript10
wysiwyg10
html-editor10
text-editor10
ckeditor10
editor10
react10
vue4
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
ueberdosis/tiptap
Feb 2022 - May 2022
The headless rich text editor framework for web artisans.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 7 commits, 1 PR in 3 months
Contributions summary:Kasper primarily contributed to the `tiptap` project by modifying the `packages/extension-task-item` component. Their work involved refactoring code, fixing lint issues, and updating options within the task item extension. They introduced a new feature allowing task items to be checkable without requiring editor control, enhancing the component's flexibility and interactive capabilities. Their contributions focused on improving the functionality and usability of the rich text editor within the specified component.
jsrich-textvuewysiwyg-editorrenderless-components
kaspnilsson/kaspnilsson.github.io
Dec 2016 - Aug 2023
Contributions:4 PRs, 33 pushes, 4 branches in 6 years 9 months
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