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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Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
jestjs/jest
Dec 2016 - Jan 2023
Delightful JavaScript Testing.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:192 releases, 3069 reviews, 1451 commits in 6 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Simen implemented support for V8 code coverage, enhancing the project's testing capabilities. They also upgraded the yarn version, upgraded various project dependencies, and updated the test environment to be more accurate. Furthermore, they made modifications to the build scripts, including the addition of ESM exports and the handling of different file formats, thereby expanding the project's compatibility with modern JavaScript standards. They integrated new features that required changes to internal workings of the runtime, test-runners, and other supporting libraries.
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siimon/prom-client
Sep 2016 - Jan 2023
Prometheus client for node.js
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:25 releases, 87 reviews, 116 commits in 6 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Simen primarily contributed to the implementation of officially recommended metrics, setting parameter types and adding necessary metrics to improve the Prometheus client. Their work involved modifying core files like `lib/defaultMetrics.js`, `lib/gauge.js`, and others related to gathering process-specific metrics. The user's changes included adding new metrics for CPU usage, file descriptors, and start time. These contributions enhanced the client's ability to monitor node.js applications.
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