Søren Skovsbøll
Cofounder at Figurement
Skanderborg, Central Denmark Region, Denmark
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Top SchoolSøren Skovsbøll is a cofounder and seasoned software engineer with over two decades of programming experience and 14 years in product-focused roles, blending hands-on development with founding and leadership responsibilities. He has led and shipped mobile and web products at scale—from Visual Studio AppCenter features and Xamarin’s Test Cloud to consumer apps with hundreds of thousands of downloads—and recently cofounded Figurement after senior roles at Humio and The TMRW Foundation. Comfortable across full-stack stacks and languages (Ruby/Rails, Obj‑C/Swift, C#, Python), he couples pragmatic engineering with usability expertise as a CUA-certified usability analyst. An active open-source contributor, he improved Ruby’s memory_profiler output for clarity and maintainability, demonstrating attention to developer experience and presentation. Known for turning messy design-feedback loops into streamlined workflows, he focuses on reducing friction between visuals, versions, and collaboration.
14 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
CUA Certified Usability Analyst, CUA Certified Usability Analyst at Human Factors InternationalMCPD, MCPD at MicrosoftAnthropology, Anthropology at Aarhus University
English, French
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Github Skills (7)
memory-profiling10
refactoring10
ruby10
code-formatting9
command-line7
cli7
command-line-interface7
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
SamSaffron/memory_profiler
Nov 2014 - Dec 2014
memory_profiler for ruby
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits in 12 days
Contributions summary:Søren primarily focused on improving the memory_profiler library's output and formatting. Their contributions included enhancing the presentation of the results, such as right-justifying numbers and adding color-coding for readability. They also refactored the code by moving the string color refinement to a dedicated module. Finally, they introduced an option to control color output.
memorymemory-profilerruby
skovsboll/elm-crontab
Jul 2021 - Mar 2024
A crontab parser and humanizer in Elm
Contributions:1 PR, 14 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 8 months
crontab-parserelmhumanizerparsercrontab
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