Philip Meulengracht
Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark
Summary
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RockstarPhilip Meulengracht is a software engineer with 12 years of experience, currently focused on Ubuntu Core at Canonical where he works on back-end systems like snapd, contributing notably to quota management and journal support. He thrives on solving real-world problems through code and spends his spare time designing ambitious personal projects—among them a mostly-from-scratch OS that can run Doom and a custom RPC/protocol library. His background spans embedded development at Oticon, full-stack work at CleverCode, and consultancy roles, giving him a broad perspective from low-level systems to enterprise solutions. Based in Copenhagen, he combines practical production experience with deep curiosity about system internals and protocols. Active on GitHub, he prefers impactful contributions over volume, focusing on cross-cutting refactors and feature work that touch multiple layers. Collectedly, his profile reflects an engineer who bridges embedded systems, backend infrastructure, and inventive personal projects.
12 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (7)
systemd10
go10
back-end-development10
linux9
system-administration8
entity-framework6
sql6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
canonical/snapd
Jan 2022 - Jan 2023
The snapd and snap tools enable systems to work with .snap files.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2467 reviews, 424 commits, 737 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Philip primarily focused on back-end development tasks within the `snapd` repository, specifically related to quota management functionality. Their commits demonstrate work on refactoring code, modifying function signatures, and implementing new features, such as supporting journal quotas. The contributions involved changes to multiple code files indicating modifications across different layers of the system.
snapdsnap
Meulengracht/vali-rofs
Feb 2022 - May 2026
Read only filesystem designed originally for Vali/MollenOS. It's designed to be modular, flexible and extensible.
Contributions:1 review, 1 PR, 60 pushes in 4 years 4 months
filesystem
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