Søren Glasius
Groovy And Grails Nerd at Cirrus Identity
Greater Aarhus Area Denmark
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Top SchoolSøren Glasius is a seasoned Groovy/Grails specialist with 15+ years of hands-on experience modernizing and migrating legacy enterprise applications, adept at upgrading Grails 2.x systems to 6.x and beyond while minimizing business disruption. An Apache Groovy PMC member and Grails committer, he brings deep "under-the-hood" framework knowledge—illustrated by contributions to apache/grails-core around REST/HAL rendering and form tag behavior—that few consultants can match. He pairs pragmatic backend architecture (Java, Spring Boot, JEE) with modern front-end stacks like Vue and React to deliver cohesive full‑stack solutions. A long-time open-source and community builder (co-founder of GR8Conf, board roles at the Grails Foundation), Søren is also experienced in identity and access management at scale, having built resilient SSO and federation pipelines for higher‑ed and enterprise customers. Based in the Greater Aarhus Area, he blends developer craftsmanship with governance experience to keep mission‑critical systems stable, modern, and community-aligned.
15 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor Computer science, Bachelor Computer science at Syddansk Universitet - University of Southern DenmarkStudentereksamen Matematik og Fysik, Studentereksamen Matematik og Fysik at Bjerringbro Gymnasium
Danish, English
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Github Skills (14)
rest-api10
grails10
groovy10
testing9
closures9
html9
json9
markup-builder6
gsp6
hibernate6
metaprogramming6
ftp6
spring6
server6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
apache/grails-core
Jan 2014 - Nov 2021
The Grails Web Application Framework
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 10 commits, 3 PRs in 7 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Søren primarily contributed to the Grails framework, specifically focusing on RESTful API rendering and form tag functionality. They addressed issues related to HAL JSON rendering, introducing custom Gson implementations and type adapters. Furthermore, the user implemented a feature to configure boolean attributes in HTML form tags, enhancing flexibility. The user also made a few code changes, including a refactor that utilized `setConfiguration` and included test pollution fixes.
groovyweb-applicationframeworkweb-application-frameworkapplication-framework
sbglasius/grails-plugins-metadata
May 2021 - Nov 2024
Contributions:21 pushes, 3 branches in 3 years 6 months
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