Oliver Bøving
PHD Student at DTU - Technical University of Denmark
Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark
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Top SchoolOliver Bøving is a PhD student and software engineer based in Copenhagen with 11 years of hands-on experience building both backend systems and polished frontends. He has contributed notable open-source work to the Rust ecosystem—adding PostgreSQL array and JSON/JSONB support to the widely used sqlx crate—and has modernized web UIs using Astro, Tailwind and MDX. At DTU he blends research, teaching and applied sustainability engineering, and has experience translating prototypes into production-grade tools during R&D roles. Comfortable across Rust, web technologies and data-driven tooling, he brings a pragmatic researcher's mindset to engineering problems and a track record of shipping well-tested, interoperable components.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Technical University of Denmark
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Github Skills (18)
postgresql10
async10
tailwindcss10
front-end-development10
sql10
astrojs10
rust10
javascript9
json9
alpinejs9
serde9
mdx8
mysql8
macros7
sqlite7
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
StractOrg/stract
Sep 2022 - Jan 2023
web search done right
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:18 reviews, 17 commits, 51 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Oliver focused on enhancing the frontend of the `stract` project, primarily using Astro and related technologies. They migrated from Askama templates to Astro, enabling features like MDX support, Tailwind integration, and component syntax. The user also optimized the frontend build process and integrated Alpine.js for interactivity. Their contributions included styling improvements, the use of variable fonts, and the integration of faker data for development.
search-engineweb-searchsearchelasticsearchrust
transact-rs/sqlx
Feb 2020 - Mar 2020
🧰 The Rust SQL Toolkit. An async, pure Rust SQL crate featuring compile-time checked queries without a DSL. Supports PostgreSQL, MySQL, and SQLite.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 2 PRs, 1 comment in 1 month
Contributions summary:Oliver significantly contributed to the `sqlx` project by implementing support for PostgreSQL array types, including `Vec<i32>`, `Vec<String>`, and arrays of other primitive types. They added array type support to the query! macro and developed JSON/JSONB support, including the `Json` and `Jsonb` wrapper types with Serde integration. The user's work involved modifying core components of the crate, extending its functionality, and incorporating comprehensive testing.
asynccompile-timecratedslmysql
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