Samuel Ytterbrink
Technical Coach at People And Code AB
Gothenburg, Västra Götaland County, Sweden
Summary
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Top SchoolSamuel Ytterbrink is a Technical Coach based in Gothenburg with 16 years of hands-on software engineering and coaching experience, helping teams untangle legacy systems and adopt modern practices like TDD, functional patterns and mob programming. He blends practical coding chops with coaching—automating tedious work to free time for mentoring—and has rescued multiple projects from legacy debt while training teams to maintain new systems. His open-source work includes translating and testing the GildedRose kata into Micro Focus COBOL and replacing browser Jasmine tests with Node.js/Mocha suites, showing a knack for pragmatic cross-language solutions and test automation. Comfortable at both architecting and implementing solutions, he thrives on simplifying complexity and improving team collaboration. Colleagues describe him as positive and confident, preferring to rework difficult processes rather than accept "hard" as inevitable.
16 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Civ ing data, Civ ing data at Luleå University of TechnologyTeknisk special, Teknisk special, Teknisk special, Teknisk special at Cyber Gymnasiet
English, Swedish
Github Skills (5)
cobol10
testing10
nodejs9
javascript6
cicd4
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
emilybache/GildedRose-Refactoring-Kata
Sep 2018 - Sep 2022
Starting code for the GildedRose Refactoring Kata in many programming languages.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Backend Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:15 commits, 5 PRs, 2 comments in 4 years
Contributions summary:Samuel translated a Python example to Micro Focus COBOL, implementing the core business logic within the GildedRose application. They then added a test project for Micro Focus COBOL, demonstrating a focus on testing the COBOL implementation. Further contributions included replacing browser-based Jasmine tests with a Node.js based version and implementing a Mocha test suite.
refactoring-kataprogramming-languagesrefactoringlanguagesgildedrose
intellij-purescript/intellij-purescript
Nov 2020 - Jan 2023
Purescript intellij plugin
Contributions:300 releases, 6 reviews, 1884 commits in 2 years 2 months
purescriptintellijpluginintellij-plugin
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