Olivia Thiderman
Senior Software Engineer at Epidemic Sound
Stockholm, Sweden
Summary
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Top SchoolOlivia Thiderman is a Senior Software Engineer based in Stockholm with 14 years of experience building reliable developer tooling, infrastructure and backend systems across companies from Spotify to Mentimeter and Epidemic Sound. She has a strong operational pedigree—working on build farms, scalable Cassandra clusters, compiler infrastructure and SSO/SAML enterprise flows—while also shipping pragmatic developer experience improvements. Olivia is an active open-source contributor, with packaging and cross-version compatibility work on user-facing utilities like an XKCD-style passphrase generator and a terminal “doge” app, showing attention to detail from build systems to Unicode and terminal quirks. She prefers roles outside finance/fintech/gambling/blockchain and brings particular strength in bridging low-level build/packaging concerns with high-level product needs. A background in Linux system administration underpins her deep comfort with cross-platform tooling and operational constraints.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Linux System Administration, Linux System Administration at Nackademin
Github Skills (24)
python10
setuptools10
terminal-emulator10
terminal-application10
emacs-lisp10
wow-js10
code-navigation10
software-packaging10
text-editing10
testing9
command-line-interface9
character-encoding9
encoding9
unicode9
command-line9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
Olivia5k/doge
Sep 2013 - Sep 2022
wow very terminal doge
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:1 release, 5 reviews, 101 commits in 9 years
Contributions summary:Olivia significantly contributed to the `doge` project, a terminal-based "wow" application. Their contributions spanned the core functionality, including implementing features like real-time data integration and process recognition. They also worked on packaging, Python 2 and 3 support, and addressing issues like terminal size handling and Unicode encoding, demonstrating a broad understanding of the project's technical requirements.
command-line-toolpythonrustterminalcommand-line
dominikh/go-mode.el
Jan 2016 - Jan 2016
Emacs mode for the Go programming language
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:22 commits, 1 PR, 27 comments in 14 days
Contributions summary:Olivia significantly contributed to the Emacs Lisp mode for the Go programming language. They implemented several functions to enhance navigation within function signatures, including those for arguments, docstrings, and return values. These changes involved defining new Emacs Lisp functions, modifying existing code, and introducing new keybindings to improve the development workflow. Furthermore, they addressed bugs and improved the existing code.
emacsgoprogramming-language
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