Kenneth Skovhus
Software Engineer at Linear
Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark
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Top SchoolKenneth Skovhus is a pragmatic full-stack software engineer with 12 years of experience building product-focused teams and maintainable systems across frontend and backend stacks. Currently at Linear and formerly a Staff Engineer at Pleo and Head of Engineering at electricityMap, he blends product, design, and rapid data-driven iteration to ship user-friendly interfaces (React/React Native) and robust services (GraphQL, Node.js, Python, MySQL/Postgres, AWS). He has led teams and refactored complex codebases, and contributes actively to open source—helping migrate test suites to Jest, improving internationalization in js-lingui, and enhancing the Electricity Maps app. Based in Copenhagen, he pairs a DTU computer science education with hands-on leadership, a taste for fast hypothesis validation, and unexpected interests in pizza-baking and electronic music that reflect a creative, detail-oriented approach.
12 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Mathematics, Mathematics at Vestjysk Gymnasium TarmElectronic Music, Electronic Music at Vestbirk HøjskoleTechnical University of Denmark
English, Danish
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Github Skills (44)
javascript10
python10
testing10
configuration-management10
typescript10
internationalization10
bash10
language-server-protocol10
redux10
redux-form10
language-server10
localization10
codemod10
jestjs10
typescript-types10
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
bash-lsp/bash-language-server
Mar 2018 - Jan 2023
A language server for Bash
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1 release, 102 reviews, 804 commits in 4 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Kenneth primarily worked on the bash-language-server, contributing to both the client-side (vscode-client) and server-side components. They refactored the server code, fixed various linting issues, and improved the completion suggestions functionality. Additionally, the user implemented support for documentation and completions of both built-in and reserved words while working on improving the overall quality of the code.
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skovhus/jest-codemods
Dec 2016 - Nov 2022
Codemods for migrating to Jest https://github.com/facebook/jest 👾
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:66 releases, 47 reviews, 310 commits in 6 years
Contributions summary:Kenneth primarily contributed to enhancing the `jest-codemods` repository, which provides codemods for migrating to Jest. Their work involved implementing new features and fixing bugs related to the command-line interface and the chai-assert transformation. They also added support for chai-should and should.js, as well as the ability to use various parsers.
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