Philip Nilsson
Senior Software Engineer at Oqcam
Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark
Summary
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Top SchoolPhilip Nilsson is a Senior Software Engineer based in Copenhagen with 12 years of experience building full-stack web applications and leading frontend efforts. He combines a broad mastery of languages and libraries with a formal, mathematical approach to engineering, preferring solutions that emerge from analyzing a problem’s intrinsic complexity rather than fitting preconceived patterns. Philip has led frontend teams and delivered production systems across startups and scale-ups including Oqcam, Oqton, Seatgeek and Trustpilot, and he thrives equally in greenfield projects and maintaining legacy products. He is known for an eye for simplicity that prevents long-term complexity debt and for advocating prestige-less, rigorous engineering practices. Comfortable switching between hands-on implementation and technical leadership, he brings pragmatic judgment honed by diverse roles from SDET at Microsoft to lead frontend engineer positions. Philip’s background in computer science from Lund University underpins his preference for formal thinking applied to pragmatic software delivery.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at The Faculty of Engineering at Lund University
Github Skills (87)
javascript10
typescript10
typechecker10
multiselect9
autocomplete9
static-typing9
redux9
webpack9
isomorphic9
preact9
js8
jsdoc8
react-component8
testing8
react8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
philipnilsson/Snake-Bacon
Jul 2013 - Sep 2017
Contributions:4 commits, 2 PRs, 2 pushes in 4 years 2 months
philipnilsson/Badness10k
Dec 2016 - Jun 2017
Badness1000
Contributions:2 commits, 1 PR, 39 pushes in 6 months
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