Peter Lithammer
Backend Engineer at Embark Studios
Uppsala, Uppsala County, Sweden
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Top SchoolPeter Lithammer is a backend engineer with 12 years of experience building and optimizing production services, currently working at Embark Studios after a decade shaping Edgeware’s StreamPilot video delivery and QoE platform. He combines strong Go expertise and performance focus—evident from open-source projects like fuzzysearch and shortuuid—with practical systems integration skills demonstrated by contributions to the popular neovim/nvim-lspconfig repo. Comfortable across the stack, he has a history of improving performance, reducing allocations, and keeping libraries secure and up to date. Based in Uppsala, Sweden, he brings a pragmatic, hands-on approach to backend architecture and developer tooling, often tackling the subtle engineering trade-offs that make distributed media systems and developer workflows reliably efficient.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Uppsala University
Swedish, English
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Github Skills (35)
algorithm10
dependency-management10
fuzzy-search10
language-server-protocol10
neovim10
uuid10
lua10
language-server10
go10
performance-optimization10
golang10
terraform9
bash9
terraformer9
typescripts8
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
lithammer/shortuuid
Jun 2018 - Jun 2022
A generator library for concise, unambiguous and URL-safe UUIDs
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:10 releases, 6 reviews, 41 commits in 4 years
Contributions summary:Peter primarily focused on maintaining and updating dependencies, specifically the `github.com/google/uuid` package. They updated the package version multiple times, reflecting the library's evolution. The user also made minor documentation improvements, fixed a typo, and refactored the code to encode/decode with the MSB first. They also modified the URL validation.
uuid-generatoruidnanoididentifierulid
lithammer/fuzzysearch
Jun 2018 - Jan 2023
:pig: Tiny and fast fuzzy search in Go
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & Performance Engineer
Back-end Developer & Performance EngineerContributions:9 releases, 4 reviews, 40 commits in 4 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Peter primarily focused on optimizing the performance of the fuzzy search library. Their contributions include adding a fast path for the `noopTransformer` to reduce allocations and significantly improve the speed of the `Match` function. They also addressed minor issues like fixing a typo in a docstring and formatting. Additionally, the user added the necessary files for Go module management.
golangfuzzy-searchfuzzytinyfuzzy-matching
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