Thomas Amland
Senioringeniør at Sikt – Kunnskapssektorens tjenesteleverandør
Bergen, Vestland, Norway
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolThomas Amland is a Senioringeniør based in Bergen with 15 years of experience building reliable backend systems for public-sector and research organisations. He brings strong expertise in multimedia and cross-platform file-system tooling, having contributed to high-profile open-source projects like Kodi and the watchdog Python library where he improved playback, subtitle handling, and cross-platform event observers. At NSD and now Sikt he has focused on robust, production-grade solutions for data-intensive environments, pairing a research-oriented MSc in Informatics/Optimization with pragmatic engineering. Colleagues describe him as a careful refactorer who finds stability and performance wins in legacy codebases while keeping user experience in mind.
15 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science, Informatics, Bachelor of Science, Informatics at University of Bergen (UiB)
Github Skills (18)
debug10
c-language10
lib10
python10
filesystemwatcher10
inotify10
media-playback10
video-player10
playback10
multimedia10
videojs10
cprogramming-language10
file-monitoring10
multiplatform9
cross-platform9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
gorakhargosh/watchdog
Sep 2013 - Oct 2015
Python library and shell utilities to monitor filesystem events.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:202 commits, 5 PRs, 5 pushes in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Thomas primarily contributed to the core functionality of the `watchdog` library, with the commits focusing on improvements, bug fixes, and refactoring of the underlying code. The user addressed issues in various observer implementations, including inotify, winapi, and fsevents, ensuring the library's cross-platform compatibility. They also made substantial modifications related to event handling, and file system monitoring, improving the overall stability and reliability of the library.
python-libraryeventspythonmonitorfilesystem-events
xbmc/xbmc
Oct 2012 - May 2018
Kodi is an award-winning free and open source home theater/media center software and entertainment hub for digital media. With its beautiful interface and powerful skinning engine, it's available for Android, BSD, Linux, macOS, iOS, tvOS and Windows.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:651 commits, 363 PRs, 160 pushes in 5 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Thomas primarily worked on the XBMC/Kodi media center software, implementing and modifying features related to video and music playback. Their contributions focused on refining subtitle handling, adding support for different audio stream types, and improvements to playlist features. These changes included fixing bugs, adding new functionalities, and refactoring existing code to support enhanced user experience within the multimedia environment.
pythonentertainmentc-plus-plusiosmultimedia
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.