Patrik Oldsberg
Senior Engineer at Spotify
Stockholm County, Sweden
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Top SchoolPatrik Oldsberg is a Senior Engineer with 12 years of hands-on experience building and maintaining backend systems, currently working at Spotify in Stockholm. He combines practical production engineering with active open-source stewardship as a maintainer of Backstage and contributor to notable repos like mock-fs, where he modernized core file-system mocking for Node.js v16+ and added robust tests. A KTH-trained computer scientist, Patrik excels at refactoring legacy code, improving maintainability, and ensuring compatibility across runtime changes. He brings a pragmatic focus on developer experience and reliable tooling that helps large engineering organizations move faster.
12 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at KTH Royal Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (14)
plugin-development10
testing10
nodejs10
javascript10
drupal-module10
package-development10
json6
gulp6
webgl6
erlang6
jquery6
regex6
code-formatting6
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
tschaub/mock-fs
Sep 2021 - Sep 2021
Configurable mock for the fs module
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 5 commits, 3 PRs in 2 days
Contributions summary:Patrik focused on enhancing the `readfilecontext` module, a core part of the mock-fs library. Their primary contributions included refactoring and documenting the existing code to improve readability and maintainability. Furthermore, the user added crucial support for Node.js v16+, implementing patches to handle changes in the underlying file system bindings. They also implemented comprehensive tests to ensure the accurate behavior of the patching mechanism.
mockmockingconfigurable
lowes/backstage
Feb 2021 - Mar 2023
Backstage is an open platform for building developer portals
Contributions:206 commits in 2 years 1 month
portalsbackstageopen-platform
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