Simon Vindum
Software Engineer at GitHub
Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark
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Top SchoolSimon Vindum is a software engineer based in Copenhagen with 13 years of experience spanning front-end, back-end and security tooling. He holds a PhD in Computer Science and contributes actively to open source—key contributions include performance and lifecycle improvements to the popular snabbdom virtual DOM, functional enhancements to Ramda, and security-focused analysis work on GitHub’s CodeQL. His background blends low-level data-structure optimizations and functional reactive front-end design with practical static-analysis and backend engineering. Currently at GitHub working on CodeQL, Simon pairs rigorous academic training with hands-on library development and a taste for elegant, high-performance code. An avid blogger and prolific GitHub contributor, he often surfaces subtle performance and correctness wins that aren’t obvious from commit counts alone.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Aarhus UniversityHigh school, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, High school, Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry at Aarhus Katedralskole
Danish
Github Skills (41)
algorithm10
algorithms10
snyk10
javascript10
immutables10
c-language10
performance-monitor10
performance-analytics10
static-analysis10
event-handling10
ram10
ramdajs10
ui-design10
data-structure10
codeql10
Programming languages (27)
Github contributions (5)
paldepind/flyd
Feb 2015 - Mar 2021
The minimalistic but powerful, modular, functional reactive programming library in JavaScript.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:233 commits, 74 PRs, 199 pushes in 6 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Simon primarily worked on implementing and refactoring core functionalities of a functional reactive programming library. Their contributions included the initial implementation of core features like streams and pipes, as well as refactoring existing code to improve efficiency and maintainability. They also focused on enhancing the library with new features like map, ap, and scan methods and improved internal stream management and dependencies. The user also added examples and documentation.
state-managementfunctional-programmingfunctional-reactive-programmingjavascriptreactive-programming
snabbdom/snabbdom
May 2015 - Feb 2020
A virtual DOM library with focus on simplicity, modularity, powerful features and performance.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:6 releases, 26 reviews, 283 commits in 4 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Simon primarily contributed to the snabbdom library, focusing on improving its capabilities for UI development. Their work included enhancements to the core functionality, such as improving the reconciliation process, text-only elements performance, and text node handling. The user added support for event handling and lifecycle hooks, including `create`, `destroy`, and `postpatch`. The commits show the implementation of features to add, remove, and modify elements based on the state of vnode.
virtualdomvirtual-domvirtual-dom-librarymodularityjavascript
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