Thor-michael Støre
Software Developer at Gapit AS
Drammen, Norway
Summary
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SeniorThor-michael Støre is a pragmatic software developer with a decade of experience building backend systems and relational database solutions, primarily in Java and PostgreSQL. Currently the primary maintainer of a Modbus microservice at Gapit AS, he blends protocol-level thinking with robust server-side engineering and test automation. His background spans embedded and enterprise contexts—from Telenor and Kongsberg testing roles to PostgreSQL consultancy and senior developer positions—giving him strong full-stack familiarity across Linux, FreeBSD, and common app servers. An active contributor to open-source quality, he notably improved test coverage and reliability for the pymodbus Python library, demonstrating attention to edge cases and performance in protocol clients. Colleagues rely on him for pragmatic database design, durable integrations, and for turning low-level networking requirements into maintainable services.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Norwegian, English
Github Skills (5)
unit-testing10
pytest10
python10
modbus10
test-automation10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
pymodbus-dev/pymodbus
Oct 2020 - Dec 2020
A full modbus protocol written in python
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:3 reviews, 7 commits, 1 PR in 2 months
Contributions summary:Thor-michael significantly improved the testing coverage and robustness of the `pymodbus` library, particularly for the synchronous client. They added new unit tests for various client methods, including those related to connection handling, debugging, and socket operations, and also expanded existing tests to cover a broader range of scenarios. They also implemented performance optimizations in the tests and fixed a method name to test TCP client repr. These changes increase the reliability of the library and ensure proper functionality.
modbus-protocolpythonmodbus-mastermodbus-rtumodbus-library
thormick/HaskRel
Oct 2015 - Nov 2015
Contributions:27 commits, 18 pushes, 1 branch in 28 days
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