Morten Linderud
Software Engineer at archlinux / nrkno
Oslo, Norway
Summary
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RockstarMorten Linderud is a seasoned software engineer in Oslo with 13 years of experience spanning machine learning interests, system administration, software development, and DevOps. He blends a solid security and cryptography focus with hands-on backend work, evident from contributions to tools like sbctl where he improved Secure Boot key management and implemented file signature verification. An active FOSS maintainer and Arch Linux contributor, he brings reproducible-builds and security-minded practices to open-source projects. His language-level contributions to the Hy Lisp-in-Python project show a knack for implementing core features, robust testing, and subtle language design improvements. He prefers pragmatic, auditable solutions that bridge researchy ML/ statistics interests with production-grade security and operations. Colleagues can expect a developer who pairs deep technical detail-orientation with long-term maintenance and reproducibility thinking.
13 years of coding experience
Github Skills (16)
golang10
macros10
efi10
compiler10
uefi10
metaprogramming10
compiler-compiler10
go10
python10
hy10
cryptography10
boot10
security10
testing9
linux9
Programming languages (30)
Github contributions (5)
Foxboron/sbctl
May 2020 - Jan 2023
:computer: :lock: :key: Secure Boot key manager
Role in this project:
Back-end & Security Engineer
Back-end & Security EngineerContributions:19 releases, 112 reviews, 252 commits in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Morten primarily contributed to the development of the `sbctl` project, a Secure Boot key manager. Their work involved implementing new commands for file management, refactoring GUID generation, and adding completion features for Bash and Zsh. Key contributions include enhancing the security and functionality of the tool by switching to the more modern google/uuid library for GUID generation and implementing file signature verification. The user's work is directly related to the project's purpose of managing keys within a secure boot environment.
golangsecuresignaturesefisecure-boot
hylang/hy
Jun 2013 - Jan 2016
A dialect of Lisp that's embedded in Python
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:63 commits, 23 PRs, 22 pushes in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Morten primarily contributed to the Hy language implementation by adding new language features, including `break` and `continue` statements, and reader macros. They addressed bug fixes and incorporated comprehensive tests to improve code quality. Further contributions focused on improving the language's core functionality by fixing builtins and resolving import-related issues. They also implemented and tested the `defmulti` macro.
macrospythondialectmetaprogrammingcompiler
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