Thomas Nilefalk
Chief Development Coach, Agile Mentor, Thought Leader, Owner at Responsive Development Technologies AB
Linköping, Östergötland County, Sweden
Summary
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SeniorThomas Nilefalk is a seasoned Agile coach, mentor, and founder with over 17 years helping organizations shift from traditional to modern, responsive software development practices. As Chief Development Coach and owner of Responsive Development Technologies AB, he combines organizational coaching, team-level tutoring, and hands-on technical guidance—everything from TDD and CI/CD to product planning and measurement. He regularly speaks internationally on programming, coaching, and organizational change, translating theory into practical workshops and actionable roadmaps. Thomas also contributes to open-source tooling, notably maintaining packages and build recipes for Emacs Lisp in the el-get project, showing attention to developer ergonomics and tooling detail. Colleagues value his ability to bridge technical practices and cultural change, turning abstract Agile values into measurable improvements. Based in Linköping, Sweden, he thrives on collaborative knowledge-sharing and pragmatic transformation across companies of all sizes.
17 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
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cygwin
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dependency-injection
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Github Skills (15)
package-management10
emacs-lisp10
dependency-injection9
cygwin9
configuration-management9
git9
github8
unit-testing6
cmake6
mingw6
bash6
meteor6
sudo6
exe6
java6
Programming languages (26)
Github contributions (5)
dimitri/el-get
Jul 2017 - Aug 2020
Manage the external elisp bits and pieces upon which you depend!
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 5 PRs, 14 comments in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Thomas primarily contributed to the maintenance and evolution of the `el-get` repository, a package manager for Emacs Lisp. Their work centered on creating and updating recipes for various external Emacs Lisp packages, including c-xrefactory, geiser, ledger-mode, and others. This involved defining package metadata, specifying build and load instructions, and adapting recipes to reflect changes in package locations or dependencies. The user also addressed the relocation of project directories, demonstrating a focus on the project's structure.
elispspacemacsmagitemacsbits
thoni56/jregr
Feb 2018 - Aug 2021
Contributions:7 releases, 79 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 6 months
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