Rafal Chlodnicki
Senior Software Engineer at Unite AS
Larvik, Vestfold og Telemark, Norway
Summary
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RockstarRafal Chlodnicki is a Senior Software Engineer based in Larvik, Norway with 11 years of experience building production-grade web and browser software in JavaScript, TypeScript and C++. He has shipped core features at scale—from browser engine and DevTools work at Opera to full-stack product improvements at TIDAL, where he introduced the company's first GraphQL endpoint and led Nuxt+TS migrations. Rafal is an active open-source contributor across the Vue and TypeScript ecosystems (notably Vetur, vue-i18n and the TypeScript language server), focusing on type safety, developer tooling, and UX refinements. He blends low-level C++ systems knowledge with front-end craftsmanship, often improving maintainability and performance while reducing API surface and payloads. Pragmatic and detail-oriented, he also has a track record of improving developer workflows and CI/test hygiene in OSS and commercial projects.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
English, Polish
Github Skills (56)
visual-studio-code10
javascript10
rails-i18n10
python10
back-end-development10
testing10
plugin-development10
sublime-text10
css10
typescript10
internationalization10
nuxt10
user-interface10
eslint10
language-server-protocol10
Programming languages (28)
Github contributions (5)
typescript-language-server/typescript-language-server
Jun 2021 - Jan 2023
Unofficial TypeScript & JavaScript Language Server
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:15 releases, 198 reviews, 179 commits in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Rafal primarily worked on refactoring the TypeScript language server to use ESLint instead of TSLint, ensuring style consistency and no user-facing changes. They updated dependencies, including tempy, commander, and chai for testing. Further contributions included enhancing diagnostics by adding support for "unnecessary" and "deprecated" tags, and they fixed various issues, such as Windows path handling. They also improved the completion feature, adding import specifier for auto-import completions and improved the diagnostic tests.
javascriptlanguage-servertypescriptlsplanguage-server-protocol
resoai/TileBoard
Jul 2018 - Jun 2022
A simple yet highly configurable Dashboard for HomeAssistant
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:208 reviews, 193 commits, 293 PRs in 4 years
Contributions summary:Rafal primarily focused on front-end development within the TileBoard project. Their commits addressed UI/UX issues by fixing text overflows, removing duplicate code, and refining the appearance of elements. These contributions improved the usability and visual presentation of the dashboard. Furthermore, the user implemented features like custom HTML and color pickers, showcasing their involvement in enhancing the user interface.
home-assistant
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