Steffen Godskesen
Senior Software Engineer at Unity Technologies
Odense, Region of Southern Denmark, Denmark
Summary
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Top SchoolSteffen Godskesen is a senior software engineer with over two decades of hands-on experience building and operating large-scale systems, currently shaping release tooling at Unity to enable safe, high-velocity delivery for 1000+ engineers. He is a pragmatic generalist who dives deep when needed, preferring readable, imperative code with a functional core and an obsession for idempotent systems. His work spans core infrastructure—from source control migrations (Mercurial to Git/GitHub) and L7 proxying for Git LFS to building merge queues, bisection engines, and publishing pipelines—largely implemented in Go and Python on GCP/Kubernetes with Spanner/Postgres backends. Steffen champions simplicity and proven technologies but will adopt new tools when they materially reduce risk or time-to-solution, and he has a history of driving migrations that unblock wide organizational change. Based in Odense, Denmark, he brings a rare blend of systems-level rigor, release engineering impact, and a research background in combinatorial optimization that informs pragmatic tooling and automation decisions.
13 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
M. Sc. Computer Science, M. Sc. Computer Science at Syddansk Universitet - University of Southern Denmark
Github Skills (33)
git-addons10
large-files10
versioning10
libgit29
git-lfs9
version-control9
go8
git8
post-processing7
render7
scriptable6
unity3d6
kitchen6
shader6
test-kitchen6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
steffengodskesen/git-lfs
Oct 2018 - Mar 2022
Git extension for versioning large files
Contributions:2 PRs, 13 pushes, 12 branches in 3 years 5 months
git-extensionversion-controlsubversionmercuriallibgit2
steffengodskesen/steffengodskesen.github.io
Jan 2018 - Jun 2019
Contributions:2 PRs, 5 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 4 months
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