Oscar Hinton
Principal Software Engineer at Bitwarden
Malmo, Sweden
Summary
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Top SchoolOscar Hinton is a Principal Software Engineer based in Malmö with 15 years of experience building cloud-native, full-stack systems and leading engineering teams. He has progressed through hands-on roles at Bitwarden—from implementing UI features in the widely used Bitwarden web vault to shaping architecture and scaling engineering practices as Lead, Staff, and now Principal Engineer. As a founder of Code Hint AB and former CTO at GeoSignage, he blends product-minded technical leadership with practical modernization experience migrating systems to Azure and Kubernetes. His background includes IoT and big data work—building Azure-based pipelines, Spark jobs, and an autonomous-robot localization MVP—showing a strong cross-domain technical curiosity. Colleagues rely on him for mentoring, onboarding, and instituting processes that improve code quality and team velocity. He brings a mix of user-facing UI craftsmanship and cloud infrastructure expertise, with notable contributions to the Bitwarden web UX around password and collection management.
15 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science in Engineering (M.Sc.Eng.) Computer Science and Engineering, Master of Science in Engineering (M.Sc.Eng.) Computer Science and Engineering at The Faculty of Engineering at Lund University
Github Skills (9)
html10
typescript10
typescripts10
typescript-types10
angular10
javascript9
css9
bootstra8
bootstrap8
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
bitwarden/web
May 2020 - Jun 2022
The website vault (vault.bitwarden.com).
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:305 reviews, 198 commits, 267 PRs in 2 years
Contributions summary:Oscar contributed primarily to the user interface of the Bitwarden web application. Their work focused on implementing features related to password management and organization, including adding support for hiding passwords in collections, enhancing the display of password visibility, and integrating options for collection management in user, group and collection edit views. The commits reveal work on UI elements and interactions.
javascriptvaultangularbootstraptypescript
bitwarden/sdk-internal
Oct 2024 - Apr 2025
Bitwarden internal SDK.
Contributions:151 reviews, 92 PRs, 161 pushes in 5 months
bitwardenrustsdk
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