Terkel Nielsen
Principal Research Engineer at GitHub
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTerkel Nielsen is a Principal Research Engineer at GitHub with 11 years of experience designing and building creative digital experiences for both big tech and startups from his Brooklyn base. He blends front-end craftsmanship—shown by contributions to a minimal WebGL library and an unofficial Instagram desktop app—with full‑stack tooling work like improving interactive prompts and UX-focused libraries. A frequent juror for The Webby Awards, Awwwards, and The Lovie Awards, he evaluates digital excellence as well as ships it, bringing a designer’s sensibility to engineering problems. Terkel’s background in digital arts and visual communication informs his knack for making complex graphics and interactions feel native and delightful, and his GitHub work often targets pragmatic fixes (iOS rendering, GPU picking, keyboard shortcuts) that improve real-world developer and user experiences.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Digital Arts, Digital Arts at School For Poetic ComputationBachelor’s Degree, Visual Communication, Bachelor’s Degree, Visual Communication at Danmarks Medie- og Journalisthøjskole
English, Danish
Github Skills (22)
webgl10
javascript10
electron10
css10
glsl10
ui-design10
darksky10
darkmode10
front-end-development10
nodejs10
command-line-interface9
gpu-instancing9
linux9
windows9
autocomplete9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
terkelg/prompts
Feb 2018 - Oct 2021
❯ Lightweight, beautiful and user-friendly interactive prompts
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:20 releases, 129 commits, 120 PRs in 3 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Terkel primarily contributed to the interactive prompts library, enhancing user experience and functionality. They focused on adding new prompt types, such as date and autocomplete, and improving existing ones. The user also updated documentation and examples to reflect the changes. They refactored and fixed bugs and incorporated features such as better UX and added new features such as format functionality.
promptsnodejsinterfaceprompterprompt
oframe/ogl
Oct 2018 - May 2021
Minimal WebGL Library
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 6 PRs, 5 comments in 2 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Terkel contributed to a minimal WebGL library, demonstrating proficiency in front-end development. Their commits focused on refining the library's functionality, including removing unnecessary features like auto-resizing. They introduced example code for GPU picking and fixed rendering issues on iOS. Furthermore, the user exposed uniforms and programs within the pass object, improving the library's flexibility.
webgl-libraryjavascriptwebgl
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