Niels Thykier
Developer at MinRefusion
Denmark
Summary
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Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolNiels Thykier is a seasoned developer with 15 years of experience based in Denmark, blending deep systems-level skills with long-term open source stewardship. He has been a Debian developer since 2009, leading Lintian maintenance and contributing to release processes, which reflects strong expertise in packaging, quality assurance, and tooling for Linux distributions. Niels also contributes to major open-source projects such as pygame, where he has improved core C/Python code, fixed memory leaks, and added tests and documentation—demonstrating attention to reliability and low-level debugging. Currently at MinRefusion, he continues to apply his background in robust backend development and software correctness. Trained with an MSc in Computer Science from DTU, he pairs academic rigor with practical experience across both community-driven and product-focused engineering. He’s known for quietly improving developer tooling and infrastructure that few users notice until it stops working.
16 years of coding experience
Master of Science, Computer Science, Master of Science, Computer Science at Danmarks Tekniske Universitet
Danish, English
Github Skills (10)
c1710
game-development10
c1110
pygame10
python10
sdl10
game-dev9
error-handling9
memory-management9
test-automation8
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
pygame/pygame
Mar 2020 - Jun 2020
🐍🎮 pygame (the library) is a Free and Open Source python programming language library for making multimedia applications like games built on top of the excellent SDL library. C, Python, Native, OpenGL.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:37 reviews, 56 commits, 43 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Niels primarily contributed to the core functionality of the pygame library, focusing on improving existing code and fixing bugs. Their work involved refactoring code to use assertions, implementing error handling, and addressing memory leaks, as evidenced by the commits. Furthermore, the user corrected documentation and added tests, improving the overall quality and reliability of the project. The user shows expertise in C and Python.
openglprogramming-languagepygamepythonsdl
Debian/lintian
Jan 2015 - Jul 2017
Contributions:1 PR, 76 pushes, 39 branches in 2 years 6 months
debiandebian-packagesstatic-analysis
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