Nils Lundquist is a Backend Engineering Manager with 11 years of experience delivering high-performance web and backend systems across enterprise and telecom domains. He combines full-stack fluency with a strong emphasis on maintainability, UX-aware engineering, and commercially focused delivery—having implemented analytics for a digital media store with over $12B in revenue and worked on critical cellular infrastructure. As a technical lead and consultant he has driven low-latency web apps for startups and Temporal-based orchestration systems for global restaurant product management, and he’s presented on coordinating concurrent Temporal processes. His hands-on background includes modernizing legacy stacks (improving response times from 5s to under 1s), building widely used UI components, and contributing maintenance-focused fixes to the CanJS open-source project. Based in Calgary, he blends pragmatic performance tuning with developer ergonomics to reduce operational overhead and accelerate time-to-market. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic architecture, coaching, and turning messy technical debt into reliable, scalable products.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BSc Computer Science, BSc Computer Science at University of Calgary
Contributions:2 releases, 17 commits, 43 PRs in 4 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Nils primarily focused on improving and maintaining the CanJS framework, specifically addressing a deprecated function and refactoring existing code for increased accuracy. Their work included deprecating `can.isDeferred` in favor of `can.isPromise`, and then modifying multiple files including `util/can.js`, `view/view.js`, and several test files. Additionally, the user fixed a missing semicolon, indicating a focus on code quality and maintenance.
an input element masking library with optional CanJS integration
Contributions:1 PR, 26 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
inputmaskmaskjavascriptthaiinput-mask
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