Niels Godfredsen
Software Engineering Consultant at Independent Consultant
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNiels Godfredsen is a versatile software engineering consultant based in San Francisco with 17 years of experience building and modernizing full-stack systems across startups and mission-driven organizations. He blends hands-on engineering with technical leadership—founding and scaling engineering teams, introducing TypeScript and modern cloud infrastructure, and delivering measurable product improvements such as AI-powered translation pipelines and more reliable ad attribution. Comfortable across Node.js, React, Python/Django, Java, and AWS, he excels at turning ambiguous requirements into pragmatic, testable solutions while mentoring engineers and shaping roadmaps. His background includes founding open-source speech projects and leading engineering in both climate-tech and edtech, showing a consistent focus on impact-driven software. Notably, he often tackles reliability and observability as first-class concerns, restoring confidence in metrics and infrastructure to support business decisions.
17 years of coding experience
30 years of employment as a software developer
BA Biology Math, BA Biology Math at Vassar College
Github Skills (16)
warc8
search-interface8
solr8
wayback-machine7
search-engine6
indexer6
php3
react3
vuex2
spotify2
spotify-api2
tracks2
playlists1
music1
vue1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
netarchivesuite/shine
Feb 2016 - Feb 2024
Contributions:7 pushes in 8 years 1 month
reactsolrweb-archivearchiveprototype
NielsGamborg/webpack-vue
Sep 2017 - Sep 2017
Contributions:59 pushes, 1 branch in 8 days
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