Lars Wirzenius
Senior Software Engineer at Orthogonal Systems SARL
Helsinki Metropolitan Area Finland
Summary
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Top SchoolLars Wirzenius is a senior software engineer with 19 years of experience building and maintaining open source systems, from embedded IoT platforms to Linux kernel contributions and deployment tooling. Based in Helsinki, he has held senior roles at Wikimedia Foundation, UpCloud and multiple startups, co-founded QvarnLabs and continues to work independently and for Orthogonal Systems SARL. He focuses today on privacy-respecting cryptography (Sequoia-PGP) and Rust training, blending deep systems-level expertise with practical security and deployment experience. A long-time Debian contributor (22 years) and author of widely deployed kernel code, he brings a rare combination of low-level systems craftsmanship and hands-on product engineering.
19 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
not graduated Computer Science, not graduated Computer Science at University of Helsinki
Github Skills (102)
command-line-parser10
argument-parsing10
prompt9
getopt9
cli9
rust9
powershell9
bash9
parser9
k8s9
command-line9
completions9
option-parser9
subcommands9
argv9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
obnam-mirror/obnam
Sep 2006 - May 2008
Contributions:900 commits in 1 year 8 months
larswirzenius/fling
Nov 2019 - Dec 2019
Terrible program for flinging files and pipes over a network.
Contributions:4 pushes, 18 branches in 11 days
pipesterriblefurryackmojolicious
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