Lasse Bunk
Software Engineer at Bogrobotten
Odense, Region of Southern Denmark
Summary
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SeniorLasse Bunk is a seasoned software engineer with 15 years of experience, currently building price-comparison features at Bogrobotten to help readers find the best book deals across Denmark, the UK, and the US. Based in Odense, he specializes in backend development with Node, JavaScript, Ruby, and Rails, and focuses on maintainable, readable systems that scale. An active open-source contributor, Lasse has improved and refactored notable Ruby libraries like Gretel (breadcrumbs) and Stringex, adding localization, lambda support, microformats, and multi-link handling. He combines pragmatic product-minded engineering with attention to code hygiene and internationalization—helping consumer-focused web services deliver clearer UX and broader language support. Quietly, his work often targets edge cases and developer ergonomics that reduce long-term maintenance burden.
15 years of coding experience
German, English, Danish
Stackoverflow
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ruby-on-rails
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Github Skills (22)
strings10
i18n-node10
testing10
text-manipulation10
rails10
breadcrumb10
ruby10
localization10
i18n-js10
i18next10
ruby-on-rails10
regular-expression9
refactoring9
api-design7
cocoa-touch6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
lassebunk/gretel
Oct 2010 - Jul 2016
Flexible Ruby on Rails breadcrumbs plugin.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:359 commits, 3 pushes, 5 comments in 5 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Lasse primarily focused on refactoring and improving the Gretel breadcrumbs plugin for Ruby on Rails. They made several code changes to improve maintainability and readability, like renaming methods and fixing bugs. Additionally, the user added support for features like lambda expressions and microformats within the plugin. The user also contributed to enhancements by addressing multiple links per breadcrumb.
ruby-on-railsbreadcrumbsrailsrubyruby-on
rsl/stringex
Jan 2013 - Aug 2013
Some [hopefully] useful extensions to Ruby’s String class. It is made up of three libraries: ActsAsUrl [permalink solution with better character translation], Unidecoder [Unicode to Ascii transliteration], and StringExtensions [miscellaneous helper methods for the String class].
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:37 commits in 6 months
Contributions summary:Lasse primarily focused on enhancing the `stringex` library, specifically improving the `convert_miscellaneous_characters` and `convert_miscellaneous_html_entities` methods. Their work included adding support for localization by integrating a new `Localization` module and supporting translations for various character and HTML entity conversions. They also refactored the code to improve maintainability, incorporating a new class and ensuring compatibility with I18n.
miscellaneousstringasciislugifytranslation
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