Martin Frost
Back End Developer at Kivra
Stockholm, Sweden
Summary
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Top SchoolMartin Frost is a pragmatic back-end developer with 18 years of experience building reliable web systems across Ruby on Rails, Elixir/Phoenix, and Python/Django, now focused at Kivra in Stockholm. He favors functional programming and testability, demonstrated by contributions to the Elixir ja_serializer project where he improved runtime configuration handling and test robustness. Comfortable across databases and messaging stacks (Postgres, Redis, Elasticsearch, RabbitMQ), he pairs hands-on coding with frequent pair programming and a strong QA/test-automation mindset. His background includes long-term product work in customer support platforms and payment/e‑commerce systems, translating complex integrations into maintainable backends. A former KTH teaching assistant, he brings both practical engineering depth and a knack for explaining technical ideas clearly.
18 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Swedish, English
Github Skills (9)
unit-testing10
json-api10
test-unit10
elixir10
exunit10
test-automation9
configuration-management9
refactoring8
refactor8
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
vt-elixir/ja_serializer
Jan 2018 - Sep 2022
JSONAPI.org Serialization in Elixir.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:5 commits, 3 PRs, 6 comments in 4 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Martin primarily focused on improving the quality and maintainability of the `ja_serializer` Elixir library. They addressed issues related to configuration and testing, refactoring code to read configuration values at runtime, which improved testability. Further contributions include adding assertions to existing tests and capturing deprecation warnings to refine the testing process. The user also updated the project's metadata by correcting the SPDX ID for licensing.
jsonapielixirserializationjson-apijson
Frost/rcm
Jan 2015 - Oct 2019
rc file (dotfile) management
Contributions:16 pushes, 5 branches in 4 years 10 months
dotfilesdotfile-managementdotfilezsh
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