Lars Brinkhoff
IT Consultant at ICtech
Gothenburg, Västra Götaland County, Sweden
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Top SchoolLars Brinkhoff is a seasoned IT consultant and software engineer with over five decades of hands-on experience in systems programming, embedded software, and legacy computer architectures. Based in Gothenburg, he combines deep expertise in low-level languages and historic platforms (PDP-10, 68000, Emacs/Lisp, Forth) with modern back-end and DevOps contributions to high-profile open-source projects like shields and github-linguist. His work spans adapting GCC for exotic targets, restoring and extending classic timesharing systems (ITS), and improving language detection heuristics used across millions of GitHub repositories. Lars is comfortable both mentoring on architecture and diving into nitty-gritty fixes—whether tuning display emulation in simh or standardizing CI badges for shields. He brings a rare mix of computer-history knowledge and practical production experience that helps teams bridge legacy constraints and contemporary engineering practices.
54 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Chalmers tekniska högskolaGöteborgs universitet
Swedish, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (37)
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Programming languages (35)
Github contributions (5)
PDP-10/its
Oct 2016 - Jan 2023
Incompatible Timesharing System
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:184 reviews, 1536 commits, 1338 PRs in 6 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Lars's commits primarily involved modifying files related to the Incompatible Timesharing System (ITS). Their work involved building and modifying core system components, including the monitor and various system utilities like DDT and TECO. They were also focused on building and modifying file system programs.
tecovirtual-memorychaosnetoperating-systemcomputer-history
github-linguist/linguist
Jul 2013 - Feb 2017
Language Savant. If your repository's language is being reported incorrectly, send us a pull request!
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Language Expert
Back-end Developer & Language ExpertContributions:85 commits, 65 PRs, 8 pushes in 3 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Lars contributed significantly to the `github-linguist/linguist` repository, focusing on enhancing language detection heuristics. Their work involved adding new file extensions, implementing heuristics for diverse languages like Common Lisp, FORTRAN, Forth, F#, GLSL, RenderScript, and others. Furthermore, the user improved existing heuristics and addressed issues, demonstrating a strong understanding of the project's core functionality and the nuances of programming languages.
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