Peter Merikan
Software Engineer at Callista Enterprise AB
Greater Gothenburg Metropolitan Area Sweden
Summary
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SeniorPeter Merikan is a seasoned software engineer based in the Greater Gothenburg area with 15 years of professional experience and a deep background in JVM and systems programming across Java, Kotlin, Groovy, Go and Rust. He blends hands-on engineering—spring, hibernate, k8s, skaffold and helm/kustomize—with strong Unix tooling expertise (vim, zsh, bash) and cross-platform development on Linux, macOS and Windows. Currently at Callista Enterprise, he brings prior architecture experience from Volvofinans, demonstrating a long track record of turning complex enterprise requirements into pragmatic, maintainable systems. An active open-source contributor, he’s added practical enhancements to the popular spaceship-prompt Zsh project (including Dart and Lua sections), reflecting his attention to developer experience and small efficiencies that multiply. He favors simplicity over cleverness, aiming to reduce complexity while delivering robust, production-ready software.
15 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Swedish, English
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Github Skills (18)
scripting10
script10
shell10
dart10
zsh10
docker9
lua9
macos9
sh9
maven8
command-prompt7
oh-my-zsh7
prompt7
docker-for-mac6
test-automation6
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
spaceship-prompt/spaceship-prompt
Sep 2018 - Oct 2022
🚀✨ Minimalistic, powerful and extremely customizable Zsh prompt
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 6 commits, 11 PRs in 4 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Peter contributed to the spaceship-prompt project by implementing new features and fixing existing bugs related to the Zsh prompt. The contributions include adding sections for Dart and Lua to display project-specific information in the prompt. They also addressed a locale-dependent test failure and improved the Maven package section.
zsh-promptzsh-plugincustomizableshell-promptshell-theme
merikan/testcontainers-demo
Mar 2020 - Jul 2022
A Testcontainers demo project
Contributions:32 commits, 3 PRs, 44 pushes in 2 years 4 months
testingdemo-projectdockertestcontainers
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