Simon Bohlin
Senior Software Engineer at ELVA11
Slovenia
Summary
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Top SchoolSimon Bohlin is a senior software engineer with 17 years of experience building secure, scalable systems and currently launching Futourist while holding senior roles at LynxCraft and ELVA11. He blends deep backend expertise—demonstrated by contributions to the Mimblewimble/grin cryptocurrency implementation—with full‑stack work on notable open-source projects like Etherpad. His career spans infrastructure optimization, platform security, and system architecture across startups and consultancies, with hands‑on proficiencies in request profiling, build tooling, and consensus logic. Based in Slovenia, he has a pattern of improving performance and developer workflows, from compacting encodings at OpenHours to refactoring critical API and email handling code in open projects. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic, structure‑first problem solving and for turning complex protocol and security requirements into maintainable implementations. Outside product work he presents publicly (recently in Dubai) and is gearing up to take Futourist to market.
17 years of coding experience
28 years of employment as a software developer
Naturvetenskap - Teknik, Specialized in mathematics and programming, Naturvetenskap - Teknik, Specialized in mathematics and programming at BromangymnasietComputer Science and Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Computer Science and Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Linköping University
Swedish, English, Slovenian, Portuguese, French, danish, norwegian, japanese, some german, and dabbled in ru, zh, cs, ...
Github Skills (37)
javascript10
back-end-development10
apidoc10
mib10
testing10
etherpad10
im10
cryptocurrency10
go10
api10
configuration-file10
cryptography10
nimble10
golang10
configurations10
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
mimblewimble/grin
Nov 2017 - Jan 2019
Minimal implementation of the Mimblewimble protocol.
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:52 commits, 61 PRs, 300 comments in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Simon primarily contributes to the backend of the Mimblewimble/grin cryptocurrency project. They implemented and debugged core features related to transaction processing, block validation, and API endpoints. Their work involved optimizing logging, refactoring code, and addressing issues related to consensus rules and network synchronization. The user also made significant contributions to the API, improving functionality and user experience.
cryptographyrustprotocolmimblewimblecryptocurrency
ether/pad
Apr 2010 - Oct 2011
Etherpad Open-Source Repository
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:18 commits in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Simon contributed to various aspects of the Etherpad project, including frontend modifications, backend logic adjustments, and improvements to build scripts. They refactored comments, updated email handling, and optimized code for better performance. The user also addressed bug fixes, such as correcting an email invitation URL, and performed merges of branches to integrate updates.
docxdmscollaborativeetherpad
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