Mikkel Pedersen
Senior Software Engineer at SCALGO
Aarhus, Central Denmark Region, Denmark
Summary
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Top SchoolMikkel Pedersen is a Senior Software Engineer with nine years of experience, currently building flood risk analysis software at SCALGO in Aarhus. He combines a computer science foundation from Aarhus University with hands-on expertise in WebGL-powered front-end engineering, notably contributing reprojection and floating-point interpolation improvements to the widely used OpenLayers library. Comfortable working across geospatial visualization and performance-critical rendering, he has a track record of optimizing single-pass WebGL workflows and adding robust tests to ensure correctness. Colleagues value his pragmatic approach to turning complex spatial data into efficient, production-ready tooling.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at Aarhus University
Github Skills (9)
webgl10
spatial10
maps10
geo10
javascript10
geospatial10
spatial-data10
openlayers10
linear-interpolation9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
openlayers/openlayers
Feb 2022 - Sep 2024
OpenLayers
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:2 PRs, 11 comments, 2 issues in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Mikkel primarily focused on enhancing the WebGL rendering capabilities of the OpenLayers library. They implemented reprojection features using WebGL, allowing for more efficient and higher-quality rendering of data tiles. Key contributions included optimizing reprojection performance by switching to a single-pass approach using WebGL, and improving the handling of floating-point data for interpolation. Additionally, the user added tests to validate the reprojection functionality.
javascriptopenlayersgis
sweepline/eslint-plugin-unused-imports
Sep 2019 - Dec 2022
Package to separate no-unused-vars and no-unused-imports for eslint as well as providing an autofixer for the latter.
Contributions:2 reviews, 42 commits, 27 PRs in 3 years 3 months
unusedvarseslinteslint-configseparate
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