Simen Bekkhus
Software Engineer at Flowcase (formerly CV Partner)
Oslo, Norway
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Top SchoolSimen Bekkhus is a software engineer based in Oslo with 13 years of experience building reliable JavaScript and TypeScript systems across front-end, back-end and DevOps. He has shipped production features at companies like FINN.no, Folio and Flowcase while contributing widely to high-profile open-source projects such as React, Prettier, Babel and the Prometheus Node client. His work spans type definitions and tooling (DefinitelyTyped, typescript-eslint), test and CI improvements (Jest, fake-timers, citgm), and performance/observability enhancements for Node.js. Comfortable across the stack, he combines pragmatic platform thinking with a strong focus on developer experience and code quality. An underrated strength is his attention to robust typing and linting practices, reflected in persistent contributions that make large JavaScript ecosystems safer and easier to maintain.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Programming, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Programming at The Norwegian School of Information TechnologyGeneral Studies Mathematics and Computer Science, General Studies Mathematics and Computer Science at Askim Videregående Skole
Norwegian, English
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Github Skills (114)
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Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
sinonjs/fake-timers
May 2015 - Dec 2022
Fake setTimeout and friends (collectively known as "timers"). Useful in your JavaScript tests. Extracted from Sinon.JS
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:32 reviews, 34 commits, 39 PRs in 7 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Simen primarily focused on enhancing the functionality and stability of the `fake-timers` library, a JavaScript utility for testing time-based operations. Their contributions involved refactoring the core code by wrapping it in a factory function and adding an export for `withGlobal`. They addressed bug fixes, including handling edge cases like `Infinity` and high-resolution timer values. Moreover, they integrated a simple test using JSDOM, solidifying the library's capabilities within different environments.
javascriptjssettimeoutsinon
Unleash/unleash
Aug 2016 - Jun 2022
Open-source feature management platform
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 103 commits, 25 PRs in 5 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Simen primarily contributed to the front-end development of the feature management platform. They focused on rendering date formats consistently across the application, modifying components related to feature views, history, and application editing. The user also added Redux dev tools for development and implemented unit tests for archive and client instance components. Their work included upgrades to webpack and eslint, improving the build process and code quality.
feature-managementfeature-togglefeature-flagscontinuous-deploymentcontinuous-delivery
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