Olof Hellman
Founder at Tomographic of Morocco
Rabat, Morocco
Summary
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Top SchoolOlof Hellman is a founder and seasoned Mac-focused software engineer with nine years of recent industry experience and a decades-long history building macOS applications dating back to System 7. He combines deep domain expertise in atom probe tomography, materials science (PhD, MIT), numerical simulation and visualization with practical product engineering—most recently founding Tomographic of Morocco to deliver data analysis tools for APT. Previously he led macOS Office engineering at Microsoft, contributed to Dropbox, and implemented scripting and AppleScript testing for the popular open-source NetNewsWire RSS client. Comfortable across research and product contexts, he bridges scientific software and commercial macOS app development, often surfacing subtle automation and scripting capabilities that improve reproducibility. Based in Rabat, he brings an unusual mix of academic rigor, multilingual skills (Japanese), and long-term platform craftsmanship to building specialized analysis software.
9 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Materials Science, Ph.D., Materials Science at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyGeorge School
Github Skills (9)
swift10
xctest10
applescript10
macos9
rss9
feedparser8
rss-reader8
objective-c5
json5
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Ranchero-Software/NetNewsWire
Jan 2018 - May 2022
RSS reader for macOS and iOS.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:68 commits, 18 PRs, 17 comments in 4 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Olof contributed primarily to the implementation and testing of features related to scripting support within the NetNewsWire application. They added scripting dictionary support, including the `getURL` AppleEvent. They introduced unit tests using XCTest for AppleScripts and expanded the available scripting properties for feeds, accounts, and folders. Further contributions included improvements to the article model and properties, enhancing the application's scripting capabilities.
json-feedrssrss-feed-readerrss-readerswift
olofhellman/Evergreen
Jan 2018 - Apr 2019
Feed reader for macOS.
Contributions:2 PRs, 29 pushes in 1 year 3 months
swiftreaderfeedmacosfeed-reader
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