Niels Abildgaard
Staff Software Consultant at deranged
Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark
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Top SchoolNiels Abildgaard is a Staff Software Consultant based in Copenhagen with 12 years of experience blending hands-on development, architecture and agile coaching to deliver pragmatic, maintainable web applications. He excels at shaping end-to-end solutions—from requirements and API design to testing practices and deployment—while mentoring teams to improve processes and communication. A background across startups and telco/consumer services has given him wide technology exposure (Node.js, Ruby on Rails, various databases and testing frameworks) and a practical focus on security and reliability. He contributes to open-source tooling, notably improving the node-gcm library’s error handling and test coverage, reflecting his emphasis on quality and observability. Colleagues value his systems-level perspective and insistence that good communication underpins successful engineering.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
MSc, Software Development and Technology, 11,2, MSc, Software Development and Technology, 11,2 at IT-Universitetet i København
Danish, English
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Github Skills (23)
javascript10
apple-push-notifications10
push-notifications10
nodejs10
unit-test10
middleware9
debugging9
sql9
android9
file-upload9
notification9
error-handling9
foreign-keys9
database9
apidoc8
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
ToothlessGear/node-gcm
Jan 2015 - Jul 2019
A NodeJS wrapper library port to send data to Android devices via Google Cloud Messaging
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:369 commits, 102 PRs, 133 pushes in 4 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Niels primarily focused on improving the functionality and maintainability of the `node-gcm` library. They implemented changes to handle errors more effectively, including printing debug messages for non-200 responses and providing helpful messages for 401 errors. Additionally, the user added and refined unit tests, particularly for `addData` and related methods within the message creation process, demonstrating a commitment to code quality and testing practices. Further improvements include refactoring the code to enhance overall structure.
androidgoogle-cloud-messagingnodejsgcmnode-gcm
CopenhagenCityArchives/linklives-api
Dec 2021 - Sep 2023
REST API used by link-lives frontend
Contributions:41 PRs, 41 pushes, 15 branches in 1 year 9 months
apiexpressnodejslinkrest
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